Iscuss with your partner which of the solutions 1) to 10) suits each problem a) to j) or offer your own one(s).

Problems

The authorities should:

a) high unemployment b) homelessness c) drug addiction d) football hooliganism e) road accidents f) deaths from smoking g) petty crime h) accidents in the home i) shoplifting j) vandalism of public property

1) introduce tougher measures to control crowds. 2) reduce speed limits. 3) retrain anyone made redundant. 4) encourage retailers to use closed-circuit TV. 5) clamp down on traffickers and dealers. 6) increase the number of local foot patrols. 7) provide more hostels and cheap accommodation. 8) mount a campaign to educate parents and children. 9) raise taxes to discourage people from doing this. 10) make the culprits repair the damage they cause.

PART FOUR

PRACTISE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS

SECTION 1

1.1 Listen to this news programme from Radio Cambridgeshire. There are three news items. Complete the following tasks:

1) In which order do you hear the news items? Put a number in the spaces.

A rally against cuts in spending on hospitals. ___

A kidnapping in England. ___

A kidnapping in Ireland. ___

Match the names and the descriptions.

1 John Cannon the victim of an attempted kidnapping from Bristol.

2 Julia Holman an Irish criminal.

3 Dessie O'Hare an Irish dentist.

4 John O'Grady a thief from Bristol.

3) In which news items (1, 2 or 3) do you hear these names?

1 Addenbrooks 2 Cambridge 3 John O'Grady 4 Tipperary

5 Dessie O'Hare 6 John Cannon 7 Bristol 8 Julia Holman

1.2 Vocabulary. Work in groups. Listen for the words in your list. In which news item (1,2 or 3) do you hear them? Now talk to students in the two other groups and complete the other lists. What do the words mean? Discuss them with another student and write a translation.

Group A charged magistrates trace staff cuts hampered implemented

Group B in charge of attempted robbery released theft remanded patients

Group C waiting lists assault highlight recaptured arrested alleged

SECTION 2

Fill in the table individually.

What would you do ifyou saw:	Run away	Call the police	Try to stop them	Ignore it	Other (please specify)
Three men attacking a foreigner on a busy train.
Someone stealing a TV from a parked car during the day.
People trying to steal a car within 50m of a policeman.

In small groups, discuss what other students have written. Can you make any general statements about what your group would do?

Listen to a report which tells us about two experiments. They looked at what people actually did in situations similar to the ones you discussed in 2.1. Some of these statements are about the experiments in Paris. The others are about the experiments in New York. Write P next to the things which happened in Paris and NY next to the things which happened in New York.

1 The experimenters filmed what people did.

2 The experiment used students.

3 The experiment used actors.

4 People were 'attacked' in public.

5 The experiment looked at car thefts.

6 Most passengers pretended not to notice.

7 The experiment took place in the streets.

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