Tuesday, December 4, 2018

A Puzzle for Logan –ORAL work

A Puzzle for Logan -- by Richard MacAndrew

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Act. 0__Check the 6 mistakes
Inspector Jenny Logan had spending holidays when Grag, her partner called to her. He said in the phone that a criminal Campbell,who murdered the man 7 years ago escaped from prison. 
At the same time, a woman were murdered in Logan's town. She said that she had saw Cambell and the man murdered 7 years ago were arguing before he was arrested. 
Is this crime related to woman's death? Who killed her?
Why Campbell escaped from prison in this time? 
 Logan and Grag solve a "puzzle" good combination and intelligence


ROLEPLAY-1:

STUDENT B     Morag                           STUDENT A: Baxter
Morag Mackenzie demanded more money from Baxter to keep quiet about lying to the police.

ROLE PLAY-2: 

  STUDENT B     Tam MacDonald.     STUDENT A : The presenter of TV5
Imagine you are Tam MacDonald.  Explain   the story of the Baxter murders for your TV Channel5


OPEN  DISCUSSION:   Campbell was sent to prison for fifteen years.
                                     How long do you think Baxter should stay in prison?


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A Puzzle for Logan –ORAL work
Intro
Match the chapter titles and sentences from each chapter.

·         Chapter 1      An escape and a murder
·         Chapter 2      A visit to Jimmy Brown
·         Chapter 3      The ‘main man’
·         Chapter 4      Bags of money
·         Chapter 5      Questions for Robert Baxter

a ‘I think he’s someone important … but she’s never told me.’
b ‘Someone’s found a young woman’s body in Holyrood Park.’
c ‘Did you ever know a man called Craig Sinclair?’
d Their knock was answered by a young fair-haired man who badly needed a bath …
e ‘I thought he was telling me that he was going to become very rich …’


Chapter  2
Look at page 12, paragraph one. Logan asks herself six questions.
Read them aloud and let your parner answer them.




Chapter 5
1.    Match the beginnings and endings.

1 People used to call Baxter ‘Bags’
2 Now Baxter was a rich and important man who
3 People were too frightened to talk about Baxter
4 Baxter said that he had not met Morag Mackenzie and
5 Logan and Grant weren’t sure if Baxter
6 Also, Baxter used his right hand
7 Grant thought it was strange,

A    was probably behind much of the crime in Edinburgh.
B    was Morag Mackenzie’s main man.
C    to hold his tennis racket.
D    that Baxter wasn’t surprised at Logan’s questions.
E    did not know Craig Sinclair.
F    so the police couldn’t get information on him.
G   because he had once stolen an old lady’s handbag.




Chapter 6.    Put these events in the right order.

a Campbell was taken to London Road Police station.
b Tam MacDonald stopped him from getting away.
c Tam told Logan that he’d followed Campbell from Holyrood Park.
d Logan and Grant started to drive towards Princes Street.
e Campbell tried to escape from Logan and Grant.
f Tam MacDonald phoned Logan to say he’d seen Campbell in Princes Street.


Chapter 7.  Match Campbell’s replies to what Grant and Logan say to him.
1 ‘I think you escaped so you could find Morag and murder her …’
2 ‘But you did know where she lived, didn’t you?’
3 ‘Where did you spend the night?’
4 ‘So what happened when you went to see her?’
5 ‘And Morag?’

a ‘Yes, I did … I know someone who knows her.’
b ‘She hadn’t told the truth … and I wanted to know why.’
c ‘I didn’t see her.’
d ‘Holyrood Park.’
e ‘Stop it! … I didn’t kill Morag Mackenzie and I didn’t kill Craig Sinclair.’

AND …  Why does Morag Mackenzie lie to the police?


Chapter 11.  Complete the summary with the names of the characters.

The fingerprints on the envelope and the knife belonged to ........................ . Logan told him that ........................... had seen him leave ......................... body in Beaverhall Road and had remembered
his car number. Finally, Baxter said that he had murdered ........................ and had made the police believe that ......................... was the killer. Also, he had paid ........................... to tell the police that
she’d seen ........................... with ........................... on the night of the murder. When ......................... escaped from prison, ................................. had demanded more money from .................... , who killed her to keep her quiet.

Robert  Baxter  -  Ronnie Campbell  -  Gus MacLeod  - Morag Mackenzie   - Craig Sinclair

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