1. By Shi Lu from Ma Yinchu Middle School
Reading:
The funny side of police work
By Shi Lu
from Ma Yinchu Middle School

2. Title: The funny side of police work
What kind of criminal cases（案件） do they deal with(处理)?
What do you think of police work?

4. Read the article quickly and tell the types of criminal cases
Story A A robbery
Story B A smuggling case
Story C A theft

5. Story A
I remember arresting a ‘thief’ in a clothes shop once. It was a strange case. The man was hiding a yellow sweater inside his coat. I thought he had stolen it, so I arrested him. We found out later that his wife gave him the sweater for his birthday, but he hated it. He just wanted to return it to the shop for a refund, but he didn’t want his wife to see him! We soon released him.

6. Story B
One day, when I was working in Candy Town, a man robbed a bank on Sixth Street. He wrote on the back of an envelope, ‘This is a robbery. Give me money!’ and gave it to the teller. She gave him $100,000, and the man ran away. Then we received a phone call from the teller. She told us to go to the man’s flat in Candy Town and get him. We arrested him as soon as he got out of the lift. He admitted that he had robbed the bank, but he couldn’t believe that we found him so quickly. We told him that the front of the envelope he used in the robbery had his name and address on it!

7. Story C
I once read a funny story about a man from Australia. He was trying to smuggle some rare birds from Thailand into Australia. He hid the birds inside a special pocket in his trousers. But as he was going through customs, the birds started to sing!

8. Read story A and answer:
1. When did the story happen?
2. Where did the story happen?
3. Who was the main character?
4. What did the man do?
5. How did the man ‘steal’?
6. Why did the man ‘steal’?

9. Really carefully:six elements (六要素) of Story A
When
Where
Who
What
How
Why
Once
In a clothes shop
A ‘thief’
He ‘stole’ a clothes
He hid a yellow sweater inside his coat.
He wanted to return the sweater, but he didn’t want to his wife to see him.

10. six elements (六要素) of Story B
When
Where
Who
What
How
Why
One day
In a bank on Sixth Street, in Candy Town
A man
Robbed a bank
Wrote something on the back of an envelope and teller gave him some money
The front of the envelope had his name and address.

11. six elements (六要素) of Story C
When
Where
Who
What
How
Why
At the customs , in Australia
A man
Smuggled some rare birds
Hid the birds inside a special pocket in his trousers
The birds started to sing.

12. where when who what how why
Read carefully: When we read a story ,we should pay attention to the six elements (六要素)
where
when
who
what
how
why

13. Discuss in groups:
1. What is the funny side of police work in Story A, Story B and Story C?
2. What do you think of the thief, the robber and the smuggler?

14. When do you know the man was not a real thief?
Story A
I remember arresting a ‘thief’ in a clothes shop once. It was a strange case. The man was hiding a yellow sweater inside his coat. I thought he had stolen it, so I arrested him. We found out later that his wife gave him the sweater for his birthday, but he hated it. He just wanted to return it to the shop for a refund, but he didn’t want his wife to see him! We soon released him.
‘thief’

15. Where did the police catch the robber? How do you know that?
Story B
One day, when I was working in Candy Town, a man robbed a bank on Sixth Street. He wrote on the back of an envelope, ‘This is a robbery. Give me money!’ and gave it to the teller. She gave him $100,000, and the man ran away. Then we received a phone call from the teller. She told us to go to the man’s flat in Candy Town and get him. We arrested him as soon as he got out of the lift. He admitted that he had robbed the bank, but he couldn’t believe that we found him so quickly.
We told him that the front of the envelope he used in the robbery had his name and address on it!
name and
address

16. What do you think happened after the birds started to sing?
Story C
I once read a funny story about a man from Australia. He was trying to smuggle some rare birds from Thailand into Australia. He hid the birds inside a special pocket in his trousers.
But as he was going through customs, the birds started to sing! ?
an untold ending

17. Different ways of telling stories
‘thief’
name and
address
the untold ending

18. Homework:
Level1: Write down the new words in your notebook and then remember them.
Level 2: Retell the stories according to the six elements.

19. Look them up !

20. thief: n. 小偷，盗贼
strange adj. 奇怪的，古怪的
hide vt. 躲藏，隐藏
hate v. 讨厌，厌恶
return v. 归还，送还
robbed
admit v. 承认
envelope n. 信封，封皮
pocket n. 口袋
custom n. 海关