Crime & Punishment
Matching Exercise
Match each utterance with its conversational function.
- Asking someone for their opinion about a topic
- Delaying strategies
- Presenting a number of arguments
- Giving your opinion about a topic
- Agreeing
- Disagreeing
- Countering
- Logical argument
- Clarification
- Expressing solutions and alternatives
1. What do you think is the best way to reduce crime?
2. That's a complicated issue. There are several ways of looking at it.
3. We need to consider punishment, rehabilitation, education, poverty and the causes of crime.
4. I believe that preventing crime is generally more effective than simply increasing prison sentences.
5. I agree that rehabilitation should be an important part of the justice system.
6. I don't agree that longer prison sentences necessarily reduce crime.
7. But if serious offenders know that they will receive only a short sentence, couldn't that weaken the deterrent effect of the law?
8. If many prisoners reoffend after leaving prison, it suggests that punishment alone isn't solving the problem.
9. Do you mean that you think prison should be abolished altogether?
10. We could consider alternatives such as community sentences, restorative justice and rehabilitation programmes.
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