5.29.2010

Podcast on anti-social behaviour (Gordon Brown)

Listen and answer the questions, choose the right option or complete the following sentences. (Check your answers in “comments”).


1. What are the results of the government’s tough action?
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2. He knows that all facts and statistics are small comfort to the man who’s worried about ___________________________________________ or the person intimidated by rowdiness ___________________________________________ or the neighbour who­­­­­­­­­­­___________________________________________
3. He says that, although he’s proud of their record, he would never be satisfied while a single British pensioner ___________________________________________________________ or a couple think it twice ___________________________________________________________.
4. What’s he going to do because the public have the right to know? How?
5. What will happen to every single one of the most chaotic families in Britain?
6. What will happen every time a young person bridges an ASBO?
7. Which of these measures have been taken recently?
a) They’ve created a new Team of Victims Champions to act on behalf or victims of anti-social behaviour.
b) Local councils will ban 24-hour drinking.
c) They’ve made local residents pay the cost of dealing with binge drinking.
d) Pubs and clubs will be made to pay the cost of keeping the neighbourhood safe?
8. What will they ensure in the future?
9. In the following days he says he’ll meet different people (local residents, police, the Victims Champion…) to see what more they can do to _______________________________________.
10. What is the government’s priority?

1 comment:

eoilumi1 said...

1. - a substantial falls in crime.
- more police force in neighbourhoods.
2.
- about drug dealing in the local park
- rowdiness on the bus home after shift
- who has been hit by anti-social behaviour in the streets
3. - hesitates about going out
- before heading into the town centre for a meal
4. He's going to publicize the names and details of those people subjects to ASBOs and other orders using photographs, public leaflets and online.
5. They will be subject to a family intervention project with clear rules and clear sanctions if the rules are broken.
6. There will be an order not just on them but on their parents as well.
7. a) b) d)
8.That victims of crime will receive their compensation faster than they do at present.
9. To make the Criminal Justice System serve victims better.
10. to make life better for the mainstream majority.