Lesson 17: Unit 160 - Verbs Followed By Prepositions
This lesson looks at verbs followed by prepositions (charge with, accuse of, prevent from and others) and vocabulary for types of crime, based on two authentic texts.
About this lesson
In this lesson you will learn which prepositions are used after key English verbs connected with the law and everyday life — such as 'charge with', 'accuse of', 'prevent from', 'warn about' and eight more structures of this kind. We will look at two authentic texts, one about a real lottery fraud and one about types of theft, from which we will draw a rich vocabulary of crime. You will practise the new verbs in sentences, recognise different types of crime and develop your speaking skills on the topic. The lesson ends with a dictation and interactive tests for consolidation.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Recognise and correctly use verbs with their prepositions: charge with, accuse of, arrest for, blame for, convict of, discourage from, forgive for, prevent from, punish for, warn about, congratulate on.
- Know the vocabulary for types of crime and the related verbs and names of offenders.
- Understand authentic texts at B1 level on the topic of crime.
- Build grammatically correct sentences with verb + preposition + gerund.
- Talk about crimes and moral dilemmas using appropriate vocabulary.
Lesson vocabulary
- to admit A 39-year-old woman admitted that she had lied.
- to claim She claimed that she bought the latest winning lottery ticket.
- to charge someone with Jean Fenn was charged with grand larceny.
- larceny A conviction of crime could put her in prison for up to seven years.
- overjoyed The owner of the store, Mark Abrams, was overjoyed.
- to donate I'm going to donate a lot of this money to different charities.
- charity Hayes said he would give money to different charities.
- odds The odds of winning the lottery are only about one in forty million.
- to jostle As she entered the restroom, she was jostled by a woman behind her.
- to bump into The woman who had bumped into her had cleverly stolen her wallet.
- pickpocketing This type of theft is called pickpocketing.
- burglary An even more personal kind of theft is known as housebreaking, or burglary.
- intrusion After such an intrusion, the victims often report a feeling of violation.
- vulnerable Thieves will steal from anyone that they think is vulnerable.
- to smuggle She was caught trying to smuggle jewellery through customs.
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