| LESSON OVERVIEW
This crime lesson plan gives your C1 students plenty of opportunities to learn new crime-related vocabulary and to discuss a difficult topic of hiring ex-offenders. We divided this lesson plan into 3 sections: vocabulary and reading, video comprehension, discussion. Below you will find some notes on each of the section.
VOCABULARY AND READING
The worksheet starts with four tasks dealing with vocabulary. First, students need to match words from two boxes to create some nouns and common phrases, for example juvenile delinquent, major crime, harsh punishment, repeat offender, criminal record, etc. In the next task, they get a few sentences where they need to fill in the gaps with the phrases from the previous exercise.
The second part of this section includes a short reading about a person who committed some crimes. The text is full of verbs connected with committing crimes and students have to match them with their meanings. Then, they need to fill in the same text with correct prepositions which go with the verbs they discussed in the previous exercise. This way we want to introduce new language in a context and emphasize the verb + preposition combinations.
VIDEO AND DISCUSSION
This part of the crime lesson plan starts with a short lead-in with some questions for students to discuss. Next, students move to the first activity connected with the video. They need to do a quiz and guess which number is correct in each point. The sentences mainly concern some statistics about unemployment among ex-offenders in the USA. Then, students watch the first part of the video and find out whether they have chosen correct answers. The next exercise around the video is a listening comprehension task in which students need to answer some questions while watching the video again.
Finally, students move to a discussion and ask questions connected with what they’ve watched, i.e. the idea of hiring ex-offenders and their future after being released from prison.
EXTRA WORKSHEET – WRITING TASK
We’ve also prepared an extra worksheet for this crime lesson plan with two goals in mind: extend crime vocabulary and practise writing. Your students will first need to identify various types of crimes from fake news headlines and connect them to their definitions. Then, their next task is turning one of these fake news headlines into a short news post! There’s a small twist here as they need to include at least 4 words from a predefined list, so they need to be a bit creative to fit them in and still write something coherent.
WORKSHEETS
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Great lesson plan. Congratulations on your site
Thank you!
Hi, yes, this is a great topic and really interesting for a lot of adults and teenagers.
Thanks, Audrey!
Great lesson. Thanks a lot! Never thought of talking about this with students, but it’s really important on today’s society!
Great to hear it, thanks!
That’s a fantastic LP! Thank you so much for sharing it.
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Hey guys!
As I already mentioned to Justa, I created a very short activity with idioms related to crime. Just let me know if you want to have it 🙂
I’d love to.
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Of course! Thanks
Yes please if it’s still available.
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I have a particular student whom I think will really enjoy this topic. I will use this on my next lesson with her.
Good to hear that!
Great Lesson plan. How can I get the script of the video? It would be also useful to work on it before watching it. THANKS.
There is a good quality transcript available for this video on YouTube! Go to YouTube and click the elipsis (…) button under the video (it’s just next to “Save”). Next, click the Open transcript button that will show up. This way you will get the transcript which you can simply highlight and copy as a text.
I liked this lesson, I’ve used it with a few classes. It promoted some good discussion. One thing, I noticed on the reading part of the lesson, that on the e lesson, there are numbers instead of letters for the meanings of the phrases – this was a bit confusing for my students to do feedback. Perhaps you could change it so they are the same on the student handout and the elesson? Thanks 🙂
Hi! So happy to hear that you’ve used this lesson many times 🙂 Thanks for the feedback! You’re right, it might have been a bit confusing, so we’ve just replaced the numbers with letters to make the e-lesson plan consistent with the PDF worksheets.