Crime Vocabulary Exercise

1. A burglar broke into our house while we were away this weekend and stole our video.
2. Drug dealers who sell heroin to teenagers are among the worst kind of criminals.
3. Car theft in this area is increasing. Fifty cars were stolen last week.
4. Fourteen football hooligans were arrested after the match. They were fighting and throwing bottles onto the pitch.
5. He should have taken a taxi home after the party. He got stopped by the police and lost his licence for drink driving.
6. He was doing 80 kilometres an hour in the centre of town. He was caughtspeeding on a camera.
7. He's scared to walk home from school on his own because last week somebullies in the year above him broke his personal stereo.
8. If you park on a double yellow line, you might get a parking ticket.
9. In court, the judge said he should stay in prison for the rest of his life.
10. She was arrested for shoplifting She stole a pair of jeans and a sweater from a clothes shop.
11. Some people think that the violence on TV and in films leads to crime.
12. The health centre wall has some big red graffiti on it. They'll have to repaint the wall.
13. There was a big fight between two gangs of teenagers outside the club. Seventeen people were hurt.
14. Two armed bank robbers got away with £50,000 yesterday.
15. Two guys mugged a friend of mine recently and ran off with her handbag.

Daniel Guadarrama Padilla

Class: H511 PVI