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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It's an activity about "crime vocabulary". It can be used with pre-intermediate or intermediate students. There are two activities: One matching and one about nouns, verbs and adjectives. The teac ...
This handout can help you/your Ss to learn new vocabulary and start heated discussion in the class on the topic Bribery and Corruption. It focuses on language in use and vocab as well as speaking ...
How to introduce the past continuous to your students? Here is a MP3 file and the worksheets that go with it. It's a complete lesson. Your student will hear a text, will discuss it, will add deta ...
Creative writing prompt:
If you could change or invent one law that had to be implemented across the world, what would it be and why? Do you think it would make life better?
Creative writing prompt:
Imagine you get robbed at knifepoint and then the thief gets hit by a car. The car speeds off, nobody else is around, and he is in extreme pain but not dead; do you hel ...
The first task is to match up the idioms on the left with the definitions on the right. This can either be done by just giving the students the worksheet or by enlarging it and cutting it up for a ...
This is an Upper Intermediate level word search for the subject of crime. List of words used in this word search: COURT, MURDER, VANDAL, HIJACKING, CORONER, INVESTIGATION, FINED, VIOLENCE, ASSAIL ...
This wordsearch contains some words you may want you students to learn before you start discussing crimes, criminals and justice. List of words used in this word search: PRISON, GUN, ARREST, JUST ...
This is a famous saying which can be used for further discussion. Secret phrase that your learners will need to unscramble in this puzzle: Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. Hen ...
This is an Upper Intermediate word search puzzle where your learners will need to find names of 20 crime and punishment words. Hope you enjoy it!
List of words used in this word search: AT ...
The wordsearch is based on the names of criminals. It can be used as a recycling activity for the students. List of words used in this word search: PICKPOCKET, OFFENDER, KIDNAP, SHOPLIFTING, PICK ...
A wordsearch where your Intermediate level learners will need to look for words about crimes, criminals and all sorts of offences. List of words used in this word search: ROBBER, HIJACKER, VANDAL ...
Words on the topic of judiciary and criminal procedure in English-speaking countries. List of words used in this word search: SUSPECT, DEFENCE, FELONY, JURY, CITATION, ACCUSED, JUDGE, RECOGNIZANC ...
Word search on Crime and Punishment! Find criminals hiding in the grids :-) List of words used in this word search: ROBBER, SMUGGLER, THIEF, ASSASSIN, DESERTER, MURDERER, FORGERER, ARSONIST, KILL ...
This is a short text that can be used as an introduction to the 'Crime' lesson, or to explain Past Simple, for example. This is also a brainteaser where your students will have to solve a mini-puz ...
Worksheet with the amnesty international report 2009, last sentences of convicted criminals (as picture cards), 2 further texts. Also included are activities with these texts, reported speech, wri ...
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