ENGLISH TEST : LISTENING DATE:

COMPREHENSION
NAME:
FORM : MARK : / 20

COMMENTS:

Watch this extract from a famous movie called Oxford Murders

by Alex de La Iglesia ,2008 .
Use the methods you have learnt in class to complete the
listening tasks.

 Before you start, become a detective and make guesses. What do you expect
to watch? According to you,
what is the movie about ? Where does the action take place?

 GENERAL COMPREHENSION

 about the VICTIM and WITNESSES

 Who is Who ? Match them up !

Arthur Seldom   the victim

Peterson   a witness

Young man   a professor at

Oxford University

Julie Eagle   the police

inspector

Julia Eagleton   a university

student

 an old woman

 Fill in the grid with all the information you can get from the extract.

Time Place
  Link between the witnesses .

student - professor colleagues relatives no link

do not know each other

know each other

 Who discovered the body ? Give as many details as you can.

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 DETAILED COMPREHENSION
 Pick out 3 questions asked by the inspector .

 about the STRANGE CLUE

 This is the paper the professor received at the conference. Write on it what

Identity of the sender :

was on it .
 Tick the correct answers and justify them .

 The professor kept the paper .  The

professor threw it away .

 The professor thought it was a joke.  The

professor was scared by what he read.

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 about the CRIME SCENE

 Give details on the following elements. Use what you understood and what
you could see .

Victim’s description : ……………………………………………………….

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Situation at the moment of the murder (action) :

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Possible presence of somebody else:

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Reactions of the witnesses:

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Emergency number :
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Clues / Objects :
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 For each of the following elements , underline what is related to the victim
and circle what is related to the murderer.

nose - knee - cushion - blood - scared

 Rewrite the chronology of events based on the facts you collected and what
you understand from the situation.

Number the events from 1 to 8.

 He threw the note away on the street.  The old woman was playing
scrabble when she was murdered.

 He was told to go to the victim’s house.  Both witnesses are being

interviewed by the inspector.

 The Professor gave a conference at the University this morning.  The young
man called the police to report the death.

 They went to the victim’s house at the same time. It was pure coincidence.

 The professor was given a note during the

conference.
 Here’s what may have happened according to the professor. Reorder the two
possible scenarios using what you understood.

Number from 1 to 7 .

SCENARIO N° 
SCENARIO N° 

beats her nose 

using her knee to add extra pressure 

while she was sleeping 

sees the blood 

puts up a struggle 
scared probably 

whoever did this obviously intended to smother her with the cushion 
when the killer removes the cushion 

she wakes up 
and doesn’t bother to put everything in its place 

hence the blood 

or it could have been a woman 

he presses down harder using both hands perhaps 

he drops it on the carpet 

 What happened to the victim according to you? Speculate about the murderer.

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