Using podcasts to work on lexical (collocation) and grammatical (3rd conditional) features
Source: Law in Action 21/03/2017
Deferred Prosecution Agreement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jb9nl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jb9nl
Item starts at 11:40 and runs to 19:00
"So if they hadn't given you the information voluntarily, you might have found out what you needed and you might have prosecuted them and then they would have been convicted perhaps."
Note the use of might for possibility and how perhaps softens would from certainty to possibility.
Vocabulary
To turn (someone/yourself) in
To get off lightly
To do a deal
Homework
Listen to the podcast again noticing how the vocabulary and grammar is used in context
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