Crime Story Collection

ACTIVITIES
 
 
Three is a Lucky Number
Before you read
1 
Why is it important to be careful about the use of electricity
in the bathroom?
 
2 
Find these words in your dictionary: 
bubble funeral inspector will 
Which word describes:
 
a 
an event after someone's death?
b
something you can find in a soapy bath?
c
a police officer?
d
a document that people write to prepare for their death?
After you read
3
Answer 
these 
questions:
a
What was Ronald's reason for marrying Mary, Dorothy and 
Edyth?
b
Why does Ronald fill the bath with bubbles?
c
What does he expect to happen when he turns on the electricity 
again?
d
Why does it not happen?
e
What makes Edyth go to the police?
f
What do the police ask Edyth to do?
g
How does she escape from the bathroom?
h
Whose footsteps does Ronald hear at the end of the story?
i 
What do you think happens next?
4
Work in pairs. Act out:
a
the first conversation between Ronald and Edyth in the hotel.
b
Edyth's conversation with a police officer after she escapes 
from the bathroom.
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Full Circle 
Before you read 
5
What qualities and skills does a person need to be a private 
detective, do you think? Would a man and a woman be equally 
good at the job? 
6
Find these words in your dictionary: 
freeway lane lieutenant
Are these sentences true or false?