The document outlines a lesson plan for an upper-intermediate English class focusing on the passive voice and family vocabulary. It includes various activities such as quizzes, discussions, reading, grammar exercises, and vocabulary building, all aimed at enhancing speaking, listening, and comprehension skills. Additionally, there are components addressing safety awareness and legal vocabulary related to crime and punishment.

1. English file upper-
Intermediate
Unit 8A – The passive

2. • Family words – riddle quiz (5 mins)
• Family discussion questions – interviewing your partner (10 mins)
• Reading activity (1) – discussing new vocabulary (10 mins)
• Reading / speaking activity (1) – Whose brother is he? (5 mins)
• Speaking and listening activity – Interviewing your partner about a photo (5 mins)
• Grammar – Possessives different ways – highlighting (5 mins)
• Grammar – Possessives writing short sentences (5 mins)
• Grammar – Possessives – recognising the correct form (5 mins)
• Grammar – Possessives – Who’s or whose? (10 mins)
• Grammar – Possessives – Speaking practice – Whose is ......? (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – family words – completing a family tree (10 mins)
• Vocabulary building – family words – Interviewing your partner (5 mins)
• Listening practice (1) – People talking about their families – Noting extra
information down. (10 mins)
• Speaking practice (1) – Asking your partner about their family

3. • When did you last meet someone new?
Where were you?
• What sorts of things do you ask
someone when you meet them for the
first time?
• Are there any questions or topics you
wouldn’t ask about in your country?

7. prepared assertive aware Hide
against instincts plan trouble

9. 1. Your route
2. It makes you appear in control and less vulnerable.
3. Call, message, look up information
4. Your phone, camera, iPod, jewellery

10. 5. It makes it more difficult for thieves on bikes to
ride up behind you and snatch your bag.
6. A lot of activity, good lighting, CCTV
7. Make a plan of what you would do if something
went wrong, agree a backup plan, keep an eye on each
other during the evening
8. Someone might put something into your drink

17. burglar
be burgled
burglary
break into
steal

21. 1. J. He said he'd send the photos to a newspaper if the actress didn't pay him a lot of money.
2. M. The builder offered the mayor a free flat in return for giving his company permission to
build new flats on a piece of green land.
3. E. We came home from holiday and found that our TV had gone.
4. G. Someone tried to sell me some marijuana during a concert.
5. L. The accountant was transferring money into his own bank account.
6. F.A teenager got into the Pentagon's computer system and downloaded some secret data.
7. C. Two passengers took control of the plane and made the pilot land in the desert.
8. A. They took a rich man's son and asked for money for his safe return.

22. 9. P.A man held out a knife and made me give him my wallet.
10. B. She went to her business partner's house and shot her dead.
11. D. After the party, the man made the woman have sex against her will.
12. K. An armed man in a mask walked into a shop and shouted, 'Give me all the money in the
till!'
13. H. When the police searched his car, it was full of contraband cigarettes.
14. Q.A woman followed a pop singer everywhere he went, watching him and sending him
constant messages on the internet.
15. N. They left a bomb in the supermarket car park, which exploded.
16. O. Somebody stole my car last night from outside my house.
17. I. Someone threw paint on the statue in the park.

24. investigated
caught
arrested
questioned
charged

25. court
accused
Witness
jury
evidence
verdict
proof
acquitted
guilty
judge
punishment
sentenced

28. A. Story 2
B. Story 1
C. Story 3

32. He always says
‘please’ and ‘thank
you’ when he
orders people to
give him money.

33. to be
that he is
that he has robbed
to be polite
After is said and is reported…, use to + infinitive.
After it is believed… and it is thought…, use that + subject + verb.

36. has been stolen.
is being painted.
will be held to discuss the problem.
hadn’t been found [...]
was (being) followed.
being woken up [....] .
is going to be closed.
Present perfect.
Present continuous.
Will

39. had his social media account hacked.
had your bag snatched.
need to have the CCTV checked [...].
had our photo taken [.....]
‘re going to have a safe put in.

42. is believed to be a local man.
is said that the muggers are very dangerous..
‘are thought to have entered [...].
is said that the murderer has disappeared.
is expected to last three weeks

49. 1. Steve and his sister; Martin said it was him and his dead wife.
2. Because one showed Steve (having breakfast in a hotel) with long hair, and one
that was supposed to have been taken later the same day showed Steve (in a pool)
with shorter, darker hair.
3. Steve had scratched his face; the scammer used it to claim he (Martin) had been
in a car accident.

52. 1. thought that
2. trick (vb)

53. 3. said that (even though it wasn’t true)
4. fraud

54. 5. make use of (in a dishonest way)
6. give

55. 7. chosen
8. careful

59. The writer thinks that, in general,
community service is a good thing.

60. In most
cases
Firstly for instance
whereas
Secondly
so
Finally
in addition
In conclusion

66. drugs, judge, mugger, punishment, smuggling
jury
accuse

67. guilty
burglar, murderer
caught, court, fraud

68. guilty
burglar, murderer
caught, court, fraud
1. short
2. caught and court
3. /g/

69. 1. Luke was accused of smuggling drugs.
2. “Murderers must be punished,” said the judge.
3. The burglar is doing community service.
4. The jury said he was guilty of fraud.
5. The mugger was caught and taken to court.