Стр.21 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Комарова Ларионова 8 класс
Reading 1 Read the texts and find words to complete the sentences. 1 Guerillas are people in an unofficial military group.
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Reading
1 Read the texts and find words to complete the sentences.
1 Guerillas are people in an unofficial military group.
2 In the USA in the past horses pulled coaches with people travelling inside.
3 A reward is a sum of money the police pay for help in solving a crime.
4 An outlaw is a person who lives a life of crime.
5 A jail is another word for a prison.
6 Headlines are the titles of pieces of news in a newspaper.
2 Read and listen to the texts. Complete the table with Information about Jesse James and William Bonney.
Jesse James
William Bonney
date of birth
place of birth
nickname or other name
crimes
year of death
Two Famous Criminals
Jesse James
Jesse James was born in Missouri in 1847. When he was 15 he left home with his older brother, Frank, and joined a gang of guerrillas. They were fighting for the Confederates in the American Civil War.
While they were fighting the Union soldiers, the gang became famous for murder and armed robbery. They robbed mail coaches and murdered their prisoners of war. In one attack they killed more than 150 people in one town and burned down all the buildings.
When the war ended in 1865 Jesse and Frank formed a new gang. They robbed banks, trains and coaches. They also murdered people.
In 1876 Jesse James changed his name to Thomas Howard and moved to hide from the police.
But Jesse started robbing banks again. In 1879 the Governor of Missouri offered a reward of $10000 to anybody who caught him. One of Jesse’s gang, Robert Ford, shot him three years later for the reward money.
William Bonney
William Bonney was born in 1859 in New York. He became one of the most famous American outlaws, known as Billy the Kid.
When Billy was a teenager the police arrested him for stealing. He escaped from jail and ran away to Arizona. His life of crime didn’t stop and soon he was stealing horses. In 1877 Billy killed for the first time. He was only 18 years old.
Billy ran away again and settled in New Mexico. He joined a gang of horse thieves. They wanted to kill Lincoln County Sheriff, William Brady, because he was responsible for killing their leader. Billy murdered the Sheriff and his deputy.
In 1881 Sheriff Pat Garrett caught Billy the Kid. He arrested Billy for murder and sentenced him to death. Billy escaped from the jailhouse but Garrett went after him, caught him and shot him. The next day the newspaper headlines said, The Kid Killed’.