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Activity 1 Complete the text with seven words from the box.

Dexter Morgan is a blood-spatter...................................for the Miami ............................Department, but he is

also a .........................................He...........................other serial killers, .................................molesters, rapists and

other really ...........................people, who have escaped the ..................................system.

Activity 2 Look at the video, what did Dexter do this morning ? Complete the sentences with the correctform of the past simple.

1. This morning, Dexter (wake).......................................up at 7.30.2. First he (kill) .......................................a mosquito.3. He (get) .......................................up.4. Then he (shave) .......................................but he (cut) .......................................himself shaving.5. So he (bleed) .......................................6. After that he (cook) .......................................breakfast.7. He (eat) .......................................bacon and eggs and he (drink) .......................................coffee and8. he (squeeze) .......................................an orange.9. Next he (clean) .......................................his teeth.10.He (lace) .......................................up his trainers and (put) .......................................on a T-shirt.11.Finally he (leave) .......................................home, (close) .......................................the door and12.in the end he (go) .......................................to work.

Activity 3 Dexter's kill methods and rituals are numerous. Some of them are symbolized in the video.Match Dexter's modus operandi with scenes from the video. Write the numbers next to the photos.

1. Dexter's victims are very often stabbed to death.2. His victims are sometimes suffocated with a pillow.3. His victims are usually dismembered.4. Dexter often strangles his victims.5. His victims can have their jugular veins or carotid arteries located in the neck sliced with a knife.6. His victims are often eviscerated.7. Dexter likes to make fragments of their bones !8. His victims are sometimes locked up.9. His victims are always tied up.10.

Dexter likes to cut his victims into pieces.

justice / police / analyst / serial killer / good / bad / child / kills / knife

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Episode : DexterVictim name: Mike DonovanAge/Occupation: 42/Church Choir MasterComplete the sentences with the correct form of the past simple.

Dexter wait.................for Donovan after a choir performance in Donovan's

Ford Taurus. When Donovan enter...................... the car, Dexter emerge.............. from the shadows of the

backseat and chock.................Donovan with a garrotte wire, and he order..................... him to drive to a house

in the outskirts of Miami. There, Dexter force........................... Donovan to look at the bodies of the young

boys he had brutally slain. Then Dexter use.................. a syringe to sedate him.

Why victim deserved it: Mike Donovan rape................ and kill................ young children.Victim's victims: Young childrenDexter's kill methods and rituals: Dexter (dig)................... up the bodies of the kids underneath a house rentedto Donovan, he show.........................the dead bodies to Donovan and then inject...................... him. Next he

use............................... plastic sheets and garbage bags to cover the room. After that, Dexter plastic

wrap................. Donovan to a table in the center of the room. Finally he (take).................... a hand saw and he

(cut)............................ off Donovan's head as Donovan is screaming.

Complete the sentences with the negative form of the verb as in the example.Dexter didn't takea knife, he took a hand saw when he killed Mike Donovan last night !

Dexter (use)..............................................................a saw to kill James Jawoski, he used a cleaver to cut him up

two nights ago !

Dexter (hang)................................................................................Matt Chambers, he chopped him up in 1998 !

Dexter (slit)..........................................................Valerie Castillo's throat, he just wrapped her in a garbage bag

two days ago !

Dexter (strangle)..........................................................................Rudy Cooper but he slit his throat with a knife

in 2010.

Dexter (shoot)......................................................................Lila West but he stabbed her in the chest last July.

Dexter (stab)......................................................Ken Olson with his machete, he decapitated him with a cleaver

on Tuesday, April 5th 2009 !

a saw a cleaver a knife

a chainsaw