Pre-Intermediate Level
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Shake Hands For Ever
Ruth Rendell
The author: true or false?
1 True
6 False
2 False
7 True
3 False
8 False
4 True
9 True
5 True
10 True
Background
1 c
2 e
3 h
4 g
5 f
6 a
7 d
8 b
People in the story
1 Burden
7 Howard Fortune
2 Charles Griswold
8 Ginge Matthews
3 Angela
9 Nancy Lake
4 Rosemary
10 Lovat
5 Eileen
11 Morag Grey
6 Mark Somerset
Vocabulary: adjectives
a
1 guilty
6 secretive
2 honest
7 cruel
3 stubborn
8 satisfied
4 ashamed
9 nervous
5 shy
10 calm
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b
1 dissatisfied
6 secretive
2 guilty
7 dishonest
3 cruel
8 shy
4 honest
9 nervous
5 stubborn
10 ashamed
Vocabulary: crime and the law
1 inspector
10 inquest
2 breaks the law
11 strangled
3 investigation
12 fraud
4 case
13 arrest
5 fingerprints / footprints
14 court
6 footprints / fingerprints
15 lawyer
7 evidence
16 prove
8 follow
17 verdict
9 identify
Words from the story
1i
9v
17 o
2x
10 w
18 n
3k
11 d
19 g
4j
12 a
20 p
5m
13 l
21 q
6b
14 c
22 t
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15 u
23 f
8s
16 e
24 h
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Pronunciation: stress
refuse
verdict
retire
guilty
arrest
greedy
ashamed
inquest
persuade
threaten
complain
stubborn
sympathy
detective
secretive
forensic
evidence
inspector
satisfied
arrested
innocent
dishonest
Grammar: the passive
a
Infinitive
Past simple
Past participle
1 take
took
taken
2 find
found
found
3 leave
left
left
4 see
saw
seen
5 steal
stole
stolen
b
1 Angela was strangled.
2 She was found in the bedroom.
3 Robert was sacked from work.
4 Fingerprints were left in the house.
5 Hairs were left in the bathroom.
6 The house was cleaned very well.
7 The car was stolen from the garage.
8 The Hathalls were suspected of breaking the law.
9 The murder was planned.
10 Robert was asked to identify the body.
11 The car wasn’t/was not found in Kingsmarkham.
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12 Robert was seen with a girl.
13 The necklace was found in a cesspit.
14 Grey wasn’t/was not arrested.
15 The planes were stopped because of the weather.
16 Angela and Robert were arrested.
Multiple choice
1a
6c
2c
7a
3b
8b
4b
9c
5a
10 c
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