LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER : t he vi deo

Vocabulary
LAMB : Agneau

LEG OF LAMB : Gigot

FROZEN : Surgel

HAPPEN : se passer, se drouler

Part 1 : Watch and choose

1) What is Mary Maloney like ?
She is : attentive
unloving

affectionate

2) What is her husband, Patrick, like ?

He is :
friendly
distant

cold

3) What does Patrick want ?

He wants :
to leave, alone.
to have babies.

to divorce and marry another woman.

4) How does Mary react to her husbands news?

a. She is sad.
b. She is angry at him.
c. She doesnt want to believe it.

loving

naive

worried

d. She pretends nothing is wrong

and goes to fix (prepare) dinner.

Part 2: Watch and answer

1) About the victim:
Who? _______________________
Job?_______________________

Family? __________________________________

2) About the murder:

Place of death? __________________________ Time of death?
_________________________________
Cause of death? ________________________________________
Murder weapon ? _______________________________________

3) About the murderer :

Who ? __________________________________________________________
Relationship to the victim ? _________________________________________
Alibi ? ___________________________________________________________________
Motive ? _________________________________________________________________
4) What happened to the murder weapon?
______________________________________________________________________________
5) Guilty or innocent? What is your verdict?
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
6) What happened to Mary Maloney?
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________

Part 3: Recap
The document is a TV show adapted from a short story by ...
When Patrick Maloney announced his and pregnant wife, Mary, that he
wanted a , she killed him with a leg of . After
that she put the leg of lamb in the and went to the store to
establish an .
When she back home, she called the and told them she
found her husband on the floor. When the police arrived, she
answered the detectives questions. Then she offered them the
of lamb to eat. They never realized that it was the weapon !
____________________________

pregnant : enceinte
grocery : picerie
oven : four
weapon : arme