TEST2ndeDOOR TO CRIME LISTENING COMPREHENSION OXFORD MURDERS

ENGLISH TEST : LISTENING

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COMPREHENSION NAME: FORM :

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COMMENTS:

Watch this extract from a famous movie called Oxford Murders by Alex de La Iglesia ,2008 . Use the methods you have learnt in class to complete the listening tasks.

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Before you start, become a detective and make guesses. What do you expect to watch? According to you, what is the movie about ? Where does the action take place?

 GENERAL COMPREHENSION  about the VICTIM and WITNESSES 

Who is Who ? Match them up !

Arthur Seldom 

 the victim

Peterson 

 a witness

Young man  Oxford University

 a professor at

Julie Eagle  inspector

 the police

Julia Eagleton  student

 a university

 an old woman 

Fill in the grid with all the information you can get from the extract. Time

Place

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Link between the witnesses .

student - professor

colleagues

know each other

relatives

no link

do not know each other

Who discovered the body ? Give as many details as you can.

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 DETAILED COMPREHENSION 

Pick out 3 questions asked by the inspector .

 about the STRANGE CLUE 

This is the paper the professor received at the conference. Write on it what

Identity of the sender :

was on it .

Tick

the correct answers and justify them .

 The professor kept the paper . professor threw it away .

 The

 The professor thought it was a joke. professor was scared by what he read.

 The

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 about the CRIME SCENE Give details on the following elements. Use what you understood and what you could see . 

Victim’s description : ……………………………………………………….

…………………………… Situation at the moment of the murder (action) :

……………………………………………………………… Possible presence of somebody else:

………………………………………………………………………… Reactions of the witnesses:

………………………………………………………………………………… Emergency number :

……………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………. ………………………… Clues / Objects :

 For each of the following elements , underline what is related to the victim and circle what is related to the murderer.

nose

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knee - cushion - blood - scared

Rewrite the chronology of events based on the facts you collected and what you understand from the situation. 

Number the events from 1 to 8.  He threw the note away on the street.

 The old woman was playing

scrabble when she was murdered.  He was told to go to the victim’s house.

 Both witnesses are being

interviewed by the inspector.  The Professor gave a conference at the University this morning.  The young

man called the police to report the death.  They went to the victim’s house at the same time. It was pure coincidence.  The professor was given a note during the

conference.

Here’s what may have happened according to the professor. Reorder the two possible scenarios using what you understood. 

Number from 1 to 7 . SCENARIO N°  SCENARIO N°  beats her nose  using her knee to add extra pressure  while she was sleeping  sees the blood  puts up a struggle  scared probably  whoever did this obviously intended to smother her with the cushion  when the killer removes the cushion  she wakes up  and doesn’t bother to put everything in its place  hence the blood  or it could have been a woman  he presses down harder using both hands perhaps  he drops it on the carpet   What happened to the victim according to you? Speculate about the murderer.

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