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A. Strict but fair
B. A modern pirate
C. Criminals in the family
D. Partners in crime
E. No discipline
F. Art or crime?
G. Teachers of values
H. Table talk
1. There aren't many criminal couples as notorious as Bonnic and Clyde. Clever but violent, they shocked
the US in the 1930s. In today's top story we look at another pair whose main business is breaking the
law. Last year, Ken Jeeves and Imelda Kay, a boyfriend-girlfriend team, robbed their first bank. Twelve
months and six banks later, police detectives are still looking for them.
2. Tim's from a one parent family, so his mum is both mother and father. Things were different with his
dad at home; the family always had dinner together. Now, Tim's mum works in the evenings teaching,
so they don't usually eat together. One thing's the same, though. Ilis house has lots of rules! Which is
good; Tim's mum wants what's best for him.
3. Acts of vandalism, where people damage public property, are increasing. In every big city, graffiti-
painted words, pictures and drawings-cover walls and buildings. Some people consider the pictures
beautiful and the work of talented painters. The police, hopver, feel differently. To them, the drawings
are the work of criminals who need disciplining.
4 Young people these days are different from what they were like in the past. Modern teenagers don't
seem to have any respect for anyone-not for their parents, their teachers or even for senior citizens.
Many psychologists feel it's because there's no one telling them what to do. Sadly, adolescents can do
whatever they want and nobody says a word to them.
5 Parents are probably the most important people in a person's life. From birth, to childhood and on
into the teenage years, mothers and fathers are there giving constant care and constant guidance and
instruction. Learning begins at home. Children know what is right and wrong long before they ever
set foot in a school.
6. Bobby Grant, a teenager from Leeds, is in serious trouble, and his parents are very worried. Bobby
worked out a way to download valuable software that lets him get copies of CDs and DVDs for free.
Bobby thought that sounded like a great idea. Unfortunately for Bobby, there are laws about this type
of crime, and what he was doing was illegal.
7. Times change and so do traditions. People are so busy these days that they sometimes forget important
family values. Sharing meals and discussing family business or the day's events are a few 'traditions
that seem to be becoming less common in many homes. Family discussions around the dinner table
are very important. They give each family member the opportunity to have their say. They hold a
family together
outside london, oliver, starved and exhausted, meets jack dawkins, a boy his own age. jack offers him shelter in the london house of his benefactor, fagin. it turns out that fagin is a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. after a few days of training, oliver is sent on a pickpocketing mission with two other boys. when he sees them swipe a handkerchief from an elderly gentleman, oliver is horrified and runs off. he is caught but narrowly escapes being convicted of the theft. mr. brownlow, the man whose handkerchief was stolen, takes the feverish oliver to his home and nurses him back to health. mr. brownlow is struck by oliver’s resemblance to a portrait of a young woman that hangs in his house. oliver thrives in mr. brownlow’s home, but two young adults in fagin’s gang, bill sikes and his lover nancy, capture oliver and return him to fagin.
fagin sends oliver to assist sikes in a burglary. oliver is shot by a servant of the house and, after sikes escapes, is taken in by the women who live there, mrs. maylie and her beautiful adopted niece rose. they grow fond of oliver, and he spends an idyllic summer with them in the countryside. but fagin and a mysterious man named monks are set on recapturing oliver. meanwhile, it is revealed that oliver’s mother left behind a gold locket when she died. monks obtains and destroys that locket. when the maylies come to london, nancy meets secretly with rose and informs her of fagin’s designs, but a member of fagin’s gang overhears the conversation. when word of nancy’s disclosure reaches sikes, he brutally murders nancy and flees london. pursued by his guilty conscience and an angry mob, he inadvertently hangs himself while trying to escape.
mr. brownlow, with whom the maylies have reunited oliver, confronts monks and wrings the truth about oliver’s parentage from him. it is revealed that monks is oliver’s half brother. their father, mr. leeford, was unhappily married to a wealthy woman and had an affair with oliver’s mother, agnes fleming. monks has been pursuing oliver all along in the hopes of ensuring that his half-brother is deprived of his share of the family inheritance. mr. brownlow forces monks to sign over oliver’s share to oliver. moreover, it is discovered that rose is agnes’s younger sister, hence oliver’s aunt. fagin is hung for his crimes. finally, mr. brownlow adopts oliver, and they and the maylies retire to a blissful existence in the countryside.