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LAW AND ORDER

'Crime and punishment' old entries Crime vocabulary exercise 1 Crime vocabulary exercise 2 Law and Order vocabulary exercises Crime and punishment and related topics with lots of exercises (vocabulary, reading, listening, games, ...) Learn English with music: crime vocabulary Bob Dylan, Hurricane Learn English with American television: crime vocabulary Law and Order Look out for cyclists ad Whodunnit: who killed Lord Smithe? Great literature? NY Times The ingredients for a great Whodunnit Midsomer Murders (TV series) My favourite Whodunnit writers: Agatha Christi PD James Ian Rankin Caroline Graham Charlaine Harris Sue Grafton Camilla Läckberg Henning Mankell

COMPULSIVE EXERCISE

Compulsive exercise or gymorexia (a kind of new anorexia) is a new mental disorder where people get obsessed with working out so, the question is: how much exercise is too much? LISTENING ACTIVITY. Watch this video and do the fill in the gaps exercise below. -Some men feel the need to look __________________ and for more and more men their ___________ is turning into an obsession. - Asked about whether he is addicted, David Moore admits he is a _______________ and worries about calories whenever he misses a day in the gym. -According to the reporter, gymorexia is due to ___________________ and the _________________ on young men. -According to sport psychologist, what happens physiologically when you exercise is that the endorphins _________________ and if you miss a day your body feels it’s missing something. -As the reporter says, the key is finding a balance. Some people like Mark , in fact, have no problems ___________________. He says that if he misses one day or two it’s not the ...

IF YOU HADN'T BUT YOU DID...

Listen to this song about regrets and do notice the effort to make words rhyme with 'if' , like when she says 'what's the diff?' meaning 'what's the difference?' The song is quite fast, so the lyrics are provided in case you might need them. Have fun and sing along, if you can! Lyrics | If You Hadn't But You Did (From Two On The Aisle 1951) lyrics Kristin Chenoweth appeared in the popular TV series Pushing Daisies . Have you ever heard about it? It is sometimes referred to as a forensic fairy tale. It centers on the life of Ned, a pie-maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are some conditions to this talent. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it falls dead again, this t...