Lifelines

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Dear Marie
First let me introduce myself. My name’s Bill Reynolds and I’m from London. I’m 21 years old and at the moment I’m still studying Modern Languages. I’m taking my final exams next month. After that I’ll have a few months free, so I’m going to look for a job to earn a bit of money.
I saw your advertisement in a magazine while I was waiting for a dental appointment. The expedition sounds very exciting and I’d really like to join the group. I love travelling and I’ve been to several countries in Europe and to the United States, too, but I’ve never been to Africa before.
If I was accepted to go on the trip I’m sure I would be a useful member of the group. I can speak three languages – English, French, and Spanish – and I like meeting other people. I can cook quite well and I can play the guitar, too. I passed my driving test a couple of years ago, but I’m afraid I don’t know very much about cars, so I wouldn’t be much help with repairing the car if it broke down.
I hope you will consider me for a place on the tour and I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely
Bill Reynolds

Evidence

A woman has been murdered. Her body was discovered at seven o’ clock this morning. She had been stabbed. What happens next? In fiction, the crime would probably be solved by a brilliant detective. But in real life crimes aren0t usually solved like that. Most criminals are caught by scientists.
The police have been called, but the room isn’t touched until the experts arrive – the pathologist, the photographer, and the detective. Then the evidence is collected and the things are taken to the police laboratories. Here they will be examined by forensic scientists. The evidence will be used to find and try a suspect.

Values

Are you the kind of person that likes to help other people? Does the salary that you earn motivate you? The German psychologist, Eduard Spranger, suggested that there are six main types of people, aesthetic, social, religious, economic, political, and theoretical.
These types are based on the values that motivate people.
Conrad, for example, is the kind of person who thinks everything should be useful. His high-powered job as the sales director of a large international company is very important to him, and he thinks he deserves the high salary which he earns. He collects works of art, but he only buys things that have a commercial value.
Conrad sees himself as someone who knows what he wants. The clothes that he wears are stylish and the car that he drives is fast and expensive.

Grammar: Relative clauses
Practice Pag. 32

1) Here are the other five types that Spranger identifies.

A) Complete the texts. Put these relative clauses in the correct places, using that as the relative pronoun.

1. govern the universe
2. take place next year
3. concern him
4. she has sold
5. he got for his birthday
6. she wants
7. needs support or a shoulder to cry on
8. are sick
9. she thinks are wrong with society
10. he leads
11. genuinely likes people
12. she gets from her involvement in politics

Selina is an artist. Some of the paintings that she has sold have fetched high prices, but Selina is not very interested in money. As long as she has enough for the things that she wants, she’s content.

Bjorn is fascinated by the laws that govern the universe. When he was a child he loved to study the starts with a telescope that he got for his birthday. Today he works in the science department of a university.

Clara is the kind of person that genuinely likes people. She’s always ready to help anyone that needs support or shoulder to cry on. Her job as a nurse gives her the opportunity to help people that are sick.

Katrin loves the feeling that she gets from her involvement in politics. She wants to change the things that she thinks are wrong with society. She has decided to stand in the local elections that take place next year.

Tamas is interested in the deeper meaning of life. The questions that concern him are: Why are we here? What is the purpose of life? The life that he leads is very simple and he meditates for at least two hours a day.

Grammar: Relative clauses
Practice Pag. 33

4) We often use relative clauses to descrive something when we don’t know its name.

A) Match the definitions with the objects.

A spade: it’s a tool that you use in the garden.

A whale: it’s a large animal that lives in the sea.

Lipstick: it’s a kind of make-up which is usually red.

A camcorder: it’s a camera that you make videos with.

A carpenter: it’s someone who makes things with wood.

Honey: it’s a kind of food which bees make.

A ruler: it’s something which you draw straight lines with.

A peninsula: it’s a piece of land that’s almost an island.

A saucepan: it’s something that you cook things in.

A skyscraper: it’s a building that’s very tall.

Grammar: The passive
Grammar in use Pag 40

1) Look at the text and answer the questions.

1) What has happened?
2) Who probably won’t solve the crime?
3) Who are the “experts”?
4) What will happen to the evidence?

1) A woman has been murdered.
2) A brilliant detective won’t solve the crime.
3) The “experts” are the pathologist, the photographer, and the detective.
4) The evidence is collected.

Grammar: The passive
Practice Pag 41

3) Read what happened next in the murder case.

A) Change the sentences into the passive, keeping the same tense. Omit the agent where it is not important.

1) The police arrested a suspect yesterday.
A suspect was arrested yesterday.

2) Someone murdered the victim at 6 o’ clock.
The victim was murdered at 6 o’ clock.

3) A neighbour had seen the suspect near the house at 5.30.
The suspect had been seen near the house at 5.30 by a neighbour.

4) The police searched the suspect’s house.
The suspect’s house was searched.

5) They found some bloodstains.
Some bloodstains was found.

6) The forensic scientists have examined the bloodstains.
The bloodstains have been examined by the forensic scientists.

7)Two detectives are questioning the suspect.
The suspect is being questioned by two detectives.

8) They will probably charge him with murder.
He probably will be charged with murder.

9) They will take him to court tomorrow.
He will be taken to court tomorrow.