Unit 2 Private investigators

Cross-curricular – History
The first private detective
1 Popatrz na logo nad tekstem w kolumnie obok. Jak myślisz,
czym zajmowała się na co dzień ta agencja?



2 Przeczytaj tekst i wybierz poprawne uzupełnienie zdań 1–5.

1 The first detective, Allan Pinkerton, was born in England / We all love films and books about private detectives. But
Scotland / America. who was the first private detective? In fact, his name was
2 From 1842 he lived in England / Scotland / America. Allan Pinkerton and his story is as interesting as a detective
3 Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency investigated bank novel.
robberies / train robberies / murders at the beginning.
Pinkerton was born in Scotland in 1819
4 Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency worked before the FBI /
worked with the FBI / copied the FBI. but he went to live in America in 1842.
5 Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was very small / small / He and his wife lived in Chicago. One day
big. when he was walking by a river, he came
across a small island. He saw that people
Word booster were living there and he worked out
that they were a gang of criminals.
He went and told the police and they
caught all the criminals except their
leader. Pinkerton helped the police
to look for the leader and he found him. Pinkerton became
a local hero and the next year he became Chicago’s first
private detective.
In 1852 Allan Pinkerton and his brother Robert started
their own detective agency. At the time, there were many
3 Uzupełnij zdania 1–5 informacjami z tekstu.
train robbers because trains carried lots of money and gold.
1 Allan Pinkerton became a local hero because he helped People usually paid the Pinkertons to find and catch train
the police to find the leader of a gang of criminals. robbers. They were good at their job and soon criminals
2  hated the name Pinkerton.
 because there was money and gold on trains. In 1861 the Pinkertons were investigating a train robbery
3 The Pinkertons’ usual job was to  when they discovered a plan to assassinate the American

president, Abraham Lincoln. With this information, the
Pinkertons saved Lincoln’s life, and soon everybody knew
and they were very good at it.
about their agency, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency. In
4 Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency became famous the American Civil War, Lincoln paid Pinkerton’s National
because the Pinkertons  Detective Agency to organise a secret intelligence service.
 . Before the creation of the FBI or the CIA in America,
5  Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency did exactly this type
 because Pinkerton’s of work.
National Detective Agency had an eye for their logo. The Pinkertons soon had many men and women
working for them. Allan Pinkerton taught them how to
4 Odpowiedz na pytania. investigate crimes and how to follow people without them
Who is your favourite famous detective from a book, TV knowing about it. He was also the first person to keep
series, film or cartoon? Why do you like him/her? a bank of information about different criminals, including
 their photos. On the side of Pinkerton’s National Detective
Agency’s headquarters in Chicago they had a famous logo.

It was a big black and white eye with the words ‘We never
 sleep’. Private detectives are often called ‘Private Eyes’. The
 Pinkerton eye was the origin of this name.

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