Spotlight - 10.2019

THE BASICS 57

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10/2019 Spotlight

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Exercise 2

Rewrite the following sentences with “be allowed to”.

A. If you’re arrested, you can make a phone call.

If you’re arrested, make a

phone call.

B. Traffic officers can drive fast.

drive fast.

C. A police officer cannot arrest you for nothing.

arrest you for nothing.

D. Can you carry a Taser?

carry a Taser?

Answers

Exercise 1

What can a police officer carry? Match

the words below to the pictures.

baton | CS gas | gun | handcuffs |

notebook | radio | stab vest | torch

Word fun

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Exercise 3

How carefully have you read page 56? Test yourself here

by deciding whether the sentences below are true (T)

or false (F).

T F

A. Steve Milner books in people who have been

arrested.

B. Prisoners wear a uniform in the custody cells.

C. Steve’s job is sometimes unpleasant and

dirty.

D. Ninety per cent of London police officers

carry a gun.

Reading

E

1.A.

notebook

B.^

gun

C.^

CS gas

D.^

handcuffs

E.^

radio

F.^

baton

G.^

torch

H.

stab vest

2.A.

If y

ou’re arrested, you

are allowed to

make a

phone call.

B.^

Traffic officers are allowed to drive fast.

C.^

A p

olice officer isn’t

allowed to arrest you for nothing.

D.^

Ar

e you allowed to

carry a Taser?

3.A.

true

B.^

false

C.^

true

D.^

false (Only 10 per cent of London police officers carry a gun.)

Grammar

Now, have another look at a sentence from “Show and tell”:

⋅ Police officers can carry CS gas, and they are^ allowed to^

carry a Taser.

Here are two ways to express the same idea: “you can do some-

thing”, and “you are allowed to do it”. Note that in English, you

start with the person (“you are allowed to”, “they are allowed

to”) not with “it” (es ist erlaubt).