General English Level 5 GELEV5 Unit 04 Topic 04.doc CLOZE Crime in the West: summary In this activity, you will fill in the missing words in a summary of the information in the passage and the graph above. 1. Read the passage below. Some words are missing from the passage. 2. Look at the words above the passage. 3. Choose words from this list to fill in the gaps in the text. You may need to read ‘Crime in the West’ and look at the graph again. NOTE: You will not use all of the words. higher has rates lower significantly shows being be stolen than steal been that high all The graph shows a comparison of crime rates in three Western countries: Canada, the USA and Australia. In _________ 1 three countries, the ___________ 2 for murder and robbery were _____________ 3 lower than those for assault and motor vehicle theft. The graph __________ 4 that the chance of _____________ 5 assaulted or having your car ________ 6 are much _____________ 7 in Canada and Australia than in the USA. On the other hand, you are more likely to be robbed or killed in the USA ___________ 8 in the other two countries.  LANGUAGE FOCUS 02 Understanding bar graphs The newspaper article says: … [Australia] … has a rate of more than 700 per 100,000 people … We use more than and less than to compare different rates. The newspaper article says: The USA … has the highest rate of murder with a rate of 6.51 per 100,000 people… [The USA's rate of murder] is higher than both Canada's and Australia's. We can use the words higher and the highest to compare the different rates in the graph. The newspaper article says: Rates of robbery are also substantially higher in the USA … followed by Australia … then Canada. 140 QUESTLANGUAGE