Engleski jezik 1 - Advanced Learning - The world of today

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1 A story about a bank robbery

Complete the story about a bank robbery with the following words: foot, surrounded, manager, robber, money, surrender, gun, officers, door, air.

Last Monday morning, a bank
went to a bank in Miami. He gave the bank teller a paper bag, pointed a
at him and said, “Give me the ! Hurry!”

The teller put the money in the bag, but when the robber turned to leave, the teller pressed a silent alarm button with his .
The alarm alerted the police. When the police arrived at the bank, the robber was in the lobby.

He was pointing his gun at the bank
and his assistant. They both had their hands up in the air. The police
the bank and blocked the front door and the back door.

They trapped the robber inside the bank. The police captain used a megaphone and told the robber to put down his gun and come out with his hands up in the .
The bank robber said no.

He said he would never .
While the captain talked to the robber, two
entered the bank from a secret . They arrested the bank robber.

2 A video

Watch a video on the following link in which children are talking to a former criminal and choose the correct option for each sentence.

a) The children are talking to a former .

b) When he did the actual robbery, he had a change of clothes underneath the suit.

c) He stole hundred thousand dollars.

d) The police found his DNA after he had dropped at the gas station.

e) If he hadn't been caught, he have kept doing it.

f) His book characters are based on his .

3 Listening

Listen to a funny story about a bank robbery gone wrong and put the missing words into the text.

Transkript

The Wiener Journal reported last Monday that a prospective bank robber was foiled in an attempt to rob the Landesbank-Hypothekenbank in Vienna simply by being directed to a different counter.

The robber had entered the bank and approached a free clerk who, when he asked for the money, the clerk told him that she did not 'deal with those types of requests'.

Maria Bertel, the clerk, said that he had come up to her wearing his scarf wrapped around his face and said he wanted money. She told him that she didn't deal with money there and to go to the next counter.

There were long queues for the other cashiers so the man, who was holding a silver box that he claimed was a bomb, fled before repeating his request.

The bank manager said that the clerk hadn't even noticed that the man was there to rob the bank.

GRAMMAR FOCUS - Past Perfect

                
                        REMEMBER BOX
                    
                        Past Perfect is a verb tense used to show that an action took place once or many times before another action in the past.
                    
                         The robber had entered the bank and approached the clerk. (first he entered the bank and then he approached the clerk)
                    
                        Past Perfect
                        Past Simple
                    
                          The Past Perfect is formed using had + past participle of the main verb. Questions are formed by inverting the subject and had. Negatives are made with not.
                    
                        Statement:
                           The robber had come up to the clerk and demanded money. 
                    
                        Question:
                          Had the robber come up to the clerk…?
                    
                        Negative:
                          The clerk hadn't even noticed that the man was there to rob the bank.

Past Perfect is a verb tense used to show that an action took place once or many times before another action in the past.
The robber had entered the bank and approached the clerk. (first he entered the bank and then he approached the clerk)
Past Perfect	Past Simple

The Past Perfect is formed using had + past participle of the main verb. Questions are formed by inverting the subject and had. Negatives are made with not.
Statement:	The robber had come up to the clerk and demanded money.
Question:	Had the robber come up to the clerk…?
Negative:	The clerk hadn't even noticed that the man was there to rob the bank.

4 Past Perfect

Rewrite the following sentences as positive or negative sentences, as well as yes / no questions and WH- questions.

5 Past Simple or Past Perfect

Complete the text with the verbs in Past Simple or Past Perfect. Think carefully about the order of the events in the story.

GRAMMAR FOCUS - Reported Speech

Watch the video on Reported Speech, then read the Grammar Focus and do exercises 6 and 7.

Reported Statements

When we report somebody else's words, we use the Reported speech.
We use a reporting verb like 'say' or 'tell'. If this verb is in the present tense, it's easy.
We just put 'she says' and then the sentence (we don't change the verb tense):

        
                Reported statements
            
                When we report somebody else’s words, we use the Reported speech.
                    We use a reporting verb like ‘say’ or ‘tell’. If this verb is in the present tense, it’s easy.
                    We just put ‘she says’ and then the sentence (we don’t change the verb tense):
            
                Direct speech
                Reported speech
            
                I love cheese.
                She says she loves cheese.
            
                We don’t need to change the tense, but we need to change the ‘person’ from ‘I’ to ‘she’,
                    for example. We also may need to change words like ‘my’ and ‘your’.

Reported statements
When we report somebody else’s words, we use the Reported speech. We use a reporting verb like ‘say’ or ‘tell’. If this verb is in the present tense, it’s easy. We just put ‘she says’ and then the sentence (we don’t change the verb tense):
Direct speech	Reported speech
I love cheese.	She says she loves cheese.
We don’t need to change the tense, but we need to change the ‘person’ from ‘I’ to ‘she’, for example. We also may need to change words like ‘my’ and ‘your’.

6 Reported speech

Put the following sentences into Reported Speech.

a) I like him very much.
He says
b) She is a great person.
He says
c) My brother lives in Paris.
She says

TENSE SHIFT

        
                On the other hand, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, then usually we change
                    the tenses in the reported speech (tense shift):
            
                Direct speech
                Reported speech
            
                I love cheese.
                She said that she loved cheese.
            
                Tense changes in reported speech
            
                Direct Speech
                Reported Speech
            
                Present Simple
                Past Simple
            
                She always wears a coat.
                He said (that) she always wore a coat.
            
                Present Continuous
                Past Continuous
            
                I'm looking for my keys.
                She said (that) she was looking for her keys.
            
                Present Perfect
                Past Perfect
            
                She has written three letters for her friend.
                He said (that) she had written three letters for her friend.
            
                Past Simple
                Past Perfect
            
                My friend gave me a bar of chocolate.
                He said (that) his friend had given him a bar of chocolate.
            
                Will
                Would
            
                I will finish my report in two days.
                He said (that) he would finish his report in two days.
            
                Can
                Could
            
                I can speak English.
                She said (that) she could speak English.
            
                May
                Might
            
                I may invite them to dinner.
                She said (that) she might invite them to the dinner.
            
                Must
                Had to
            
                I must go to the bank and get some money.
                She said (that) she had to go to the bank and get some money.
            
                Have to
                Had to
            
                I have to submit this assignment by 3 pm tomorrow.
                She said (that) she had to submit this assignment by 3 pm tomorrow.

On the other hand, if the reporting verb is in the past tense, then usually we change the tenses in the reported speech (tense shift):
Direct speech	Reported speech
I love cheese.	She said that she loved cheese.
Tense changes in reported speech

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
Present Simple	Past Simple
She always wears a coat.	He said (that) she always wore a coat.
Present Continuous	Past Continuous
I'm looking for my keys.	She said (that) she was looking for her keys.
Present Perfect	Past Perfect
She has written three letters for her friend.	He said (that) she had written three letters for her friend.
Past Simple	Past Perfect
My friend gave me a bar of chocolate.	He said (that) his friend had given him a bar of chocolate.
Will	Would
I will finish my report in two days.	He said (that) he would finish his report in two days.
Can	Could
I can speak English.	She said (that) she could speak English.
May	Might
I may invite them to dinner.	She said (that) she might invite them to the dinner.
Must	Had to
I must go to the bank and get some money.	She said (that) she had to go to the bank and get some money.
Have to	Had to
I have to submit this assignment by 3 pm tomorrow.	She said (that) she had to submit this assignment by 3 pm tomorrow.

7 Choose the correct verb tense

Choose the correct verb tense for each sentence.

a) I am playing computer games. She says that she computer games.

b) They went to England yesterday. They to England .

c) I will call you tomorrow. He said that he .

d) Alicia has done her homework. Her mother said that Alicia her homework.

e) I must do my homework. Mark said that homework.

f) We live in a flat. Rosy's friends told us that in a flat.

8 Rewrite the sentences

Put the sentences into Reported Speech.

TIME EXPRESSIONS

        
                    Changes in
                    time expressions
                
                today -> that day
            
                yesterday -> the day before / the previous day
            
                tomorrow -> the next day / the day after

Changes in time expressions
today -> that day
yesterday -> the day before / the previous day
tomorrow -> the next day / the day after

9 Time expressions changes

Put the sentences into Reported Speech.

a) I went out yesterday.
He said that
b) She will come tomorrow.
I told my friends that

10 Listen and write

Listen to a funny story about an accidental crime and then write your own funny story connected to a crime in 150 to 180 words using the Past Perfect and Reported Speech.

Transkript

Get Out of the Car!

This is a true account recorded in the police log of Sarasota, Florida.

An elderly lady from Florida had finished her shopping and, upon returning to her car, caught sight of four males attempting to leave with her vehicle.

She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, screaming at the top of her lungs, "I have a gun, and I know how to use it! Get out of the car!"

The four men didn't wait for a second threat. They got out and ran.

The lady, somewhat shaken, proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition.

She tried and tried, and then she realized why. It was for the same reason she had wondered why there was a football, a Frisbee, and two 12-packs of beer in the front seat.

A few minutes later, she found her own car parked four or five spaces further down.

She loaded her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her mistake.

The sergeant to whom she told the story couldn't stop laughing.

He pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale men were reporting a carjacking by a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, with glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun.