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had driven
her (8) 
to seek out
the
clandestine clinic in Maia three years ago, (9) 
was ordered
to pay a small fine or (10) 
spend
four
months in prison. The judges (11) 
could have sentenced
her to up to three years in prison.
2) Verb structures (6), (7) and (8) are all part of a relative clause. Journalists often use these clauses to
give us information about people or things following this pattern:
The person, who does this and looks like this and did this, is important.
Why in the second sentence does the writer use the past perfect (
had pleaded + had driven
)?
3) Complete the paragraphs below by inserting the correct verb patterns and tenses.
Fence (be)_____ a true story of three Aboriginal girls who (be)______ forcibly (take) _____ from their
family during a government programme in the first half of the 20th century (be + train) ______ as
domestic workers and integrated into white society.
The now discredited policy, which (begin)_____ in 1918, (displace)________ thousands of Aborigines
who (become + know)_______ as the Stolen Generation.
F Discussion
Do you think abortion should be legal or not?
Portuguese nurse who ran abortion clinic jailed
L E V E L T H R E E
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A D VA N C E D

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Key Portuguese nurse jailed
Level 1 
B 
1 
17 (or 18 if you include the nurse) 
2 3 
years 
3 21 
4 
Eight and a half years 
5 
Morphine and other dangerous drugs 
6 $450 
7 Spain 
8 Almost 
40,000 
C 
1 One 
2 
Because she was very poor, her partner was violent and her daughter was sick 
3 
Because the law court was not big enough 
4 
Hospital personnel, chemists, taxi-drivers, friends and relatives. 
5 
Jewellery – wedding rings, necklaces or earrings 
6 Poor 
districts 
7 
Because of the jewellery they gave the nurse 
8 Pregnancy 
D 
1 punishment
2 accuse 
3 operation 
4 organise (organize) 
5 steal
6 decision 
7 division 
8 treat