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.
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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?https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboards/wilsonherreraloor/a-puzzle-for-logan
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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
