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3 Discussion
· What could be the causes of gang-related crime in a city like LA?
· Are there gang problems in your city?
LISTENING
4 You will hear a piece of news about killing one of Saddam Hussein’s
defendants. For questions 1- 8, decide if each sentence is true or false. You
will hear the recording twice.
1
One of Saddam Hussein’s former lawyers has been executed in Iraq.
T / F
2
There are eight people on trial including Saddam Hussein.
T / F
3
A lawyer said Iraq’s government was involved in the killing.
T / F
4
Saddam’s lawyer has accused Iraq’s government of intimidation.
T / F
5
The bullet-ridden body of another lawyer was found just days earlier.
T / F
6
A former Saddam aide is accused of massacring of 1,982 Shiite Iraqis.
T / F
7
Iraq’s Interior Ministry was cited as a bastion of pro-Saddam feeling.
T / F
8
Judges in the trial have been assigned with heavy security.
T / F
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
5 Complete the sentences with a word from the box.
backfires bury to ruin a crackdown a gang
summit turf unprecedented impoverished to mourn
1 __________ is a group of young people who spend time together and often
cause trouble.
2 When you ____________ a person, you put his or her dead body in the ground.
3 ____________ is to feel sad because someone has died.
4 ____________ is an area that a group considers to be their own.
5 _________ is a strong action taken by the authority to stop a particular activity.
6 When leaders hold a ____________, they have a meeting or series of meetings.
7 If something is ____________, then it has never happened or existed before.
8 If a plan ____________ then it has the opposite effect you intended.
9 If you are ____________ then you have little or no money.
10 ____________ something is to destroy or seriously damage it.
6 Complete the sentences with nouns made from the following phrasal
verbs.
Example: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has referred to his city as “the gang
capital of America”, has launched a crackdown on the new threat.
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