Here at BusyTeacher, we like to provide you with lots of choices and variety so welcome to the crime and punishment section of the site. It is not an obvious ESL topic but there still are 92 FREE worksheets available that you might consider using in class. This activity is for upper intermediate students who need to practice modal verbs. There are excellent instructions included with the worksheet but you are going to have to take some time beforehand to talk about crime related vocabulary such as forgery so that students understand the questions they are being asked. If this is not an appropriate topic or level for your students, there are many to choose from including word searches and other discussion activities.
While not a common ESL topic, crime and punishment can be interesting especially in adult discussion classes because everybody has a slightly different opinion when it comes to issues related to this. Some schools may deem this a controversial and inappropriate topic so be sure to get approval before introducing anything in class. With lower level learners, you may want to introduce vocabulary words such as jail, steal, and policeman. You can use these words in activities related to predictions or when studying the If ~, then ~. sentence structure. As with most topics, you simply have to choose material that suits the level of your students to ensure that everything goes smoothly and students understand the lesson.
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Crime idioms for teaching English to law enforcement agencies' officers and other students interested in law and crime topics. The worksheet will help your students enrich their vocabulary on the ...
This sheet gives students information needed to help them make an emergency phone call for fire, police and ambulance. It also helps students understand the difference between an emergency and non ...
Speaking Activity: Crime and Punishment This activity consists of three main parts: - Glossary of crimes - Words and Phrases related to the speaking activity "Crime and Punishment" - Discussion qu ...
This is a ppt with the already known game: Desert Island. It's great to learn new vocabulary and practice speaking. "You are on a desert island. There is a motor boat and you are the only one who ...
It's a full lesson plan with all the attachments for activities planned. It can be used to introduce the topic "Crime and Punishment". It involves a lot of group work and will make your students u ...
This is some vocabulary to play a game like Taboo. The only difference is that there are no forbidden words. This is a pretty good game since it just requires the students to concentrate on the ma ...
Hi :) I tried to prepare a worksheet which can be used while teaching Past Simple and Past Continuous. The students are given a short story about a robbery at a bank. After reading and examining t ...
Work in groups of 5 (maybe 6).This is a case study the ultimate goal of which is to find the criminal and reconstruct the possible murder scenes and scenarios. In fact, there is no single right an ...
Two part, past simple, past continuous, and questions, police and suspect activity cards. The first is a 'partner' reading or role play activity. The second is a speaking, gap fill role play activ ...
Reporting a crime. Past simple, past continuous, and questions activity. Reading, speaking, gap fill writing & role play activity cards. The first card is a reading dialogue for partners. The ...
Reported speech powerpoint activity that I created for a class / group activity. It is based on a real life, true crime carried out by a very polite man who robs a petrol station. Each slide shows ...
It can be a homework or a filler during the Halloween season. Students have to put together the sentences of a Halloween story using the codes given in the table. It is ideal for elementary level ...
This is the third in a series of 3 articles about a young teenager called El Ponchis who worked as an assassin for a drug cartel in Mexico. In this article, he is captured and convicted. His sente ...
The second in a series of 3 articles about a young teenager called El Ponchis who was working for a drug cartel in Mexico and who allegedly beheaded at least 3 people. The questions following the ...
This is the first in a series of 3 articles about a teenager called El Ponchis who was working for a drug cartel in Mexico and was responsible for beheading at least 3 people. Clues are given to h ...
Word associations game is very popular in my country. Split your students in two teams. Each team in turn chooses a field and tries to find the solutions to the columns and the key word that conne ...
I put this worksheet together in my first year of teaching topical subject of early part of 2012 introduce the difficult words: Friendship, SAFETY, the law, keep in touch, spreading ideas, oppres ...
This is a video session practice on the movie Seven for students to get a general idea of the plot and to keep track of the different pieces of evidence they should remember when retelling the sto ...
This is a short documentary about an American man, called Richard Lee, who runs coffee shop that is a marijuana dispensary. The video also shows Oaksterdam University, where students train for th ...
This is a simple worksheet with words dealing with criminal investigation. It can be used as one of the activities the aim of which is checking the students' understanding of crime-related vocabul ...
This a vocabulary worksheet that may be useful when working on murder stories / detective stories / thrillers (weapons are related to verbs / actions). It also enables pupils to train on the passi ...
This is a intermediate/upper intermediate reading on the RCMP from the Encylopedia of Canada website. Questions after different sections for comprehension and images to keep the interest. Possibl ...
This is a great activity to do with Elementary/Pre-intermediate students, but can also be adapted for higher levels. Watch The Wrong Trousers with your students and pause the film in four places, ...
Complete worksheet for such a "squeezable" song! In it you will find: past simple exercises, find a word that mean..., look up words in a dictionary and summarize the story. You can model it to su ...
I found this worksheet once on a language learning portal. It is a great role-play for practising the past continuous in a communicative, fun way. Make sure you first teach the past continuou ...
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