| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- discuss legal cases and the justice system;
- review courtroom vocabulary;
- listen to a real story about a famous criminal and civil trial.
In this lesson, students discuss their relationship with the legal system and review courtroom vocabulary through two real legal cases. They practise related verbs (e.g. sue, prosecute, convict, acquit, allege) in dialogues and discussions and work on the pronunciation of key terms. Students also listen to a real story about two trials involving the same crime and discuss other famous court cases and legal scenarios.
60 minVocabulary LabUnlimited Plan
This is a Vocabulary Lab worksheet. With it, students are introduced to a set of vocabulary on a specific topic and practise it through controlled activities, speaking tasks and games. Learn more about it here.
WARM-UP AND VOCABULARY
This lesson starts with a warm-up in which students choose statements that describe their relationship with the law and give more details. Afterwards, they choose the correct courtroom vocabulary to complete sentences (e.g. defendant, damages, nuisance, liable, injunction, proceedings, plaintiff, forensic) and explain what each word means. Moving on, students give two examples for different legal categories (e.g. why proceedings are sometimes lengthy, what a business owner might be liable for).
MORE COURTROOM VOCABULARY
In this part of the lesson, students read about two real legal cases and complete the gaps with courtroom vocabulary from the lesson. Then, they discuss questions about each one. Moving on, students match legal verbs in bold (e.g. implicate, acquit, appeal, sue, convict, allege, prosecute, rule) with their correct meanings in short dialogues. They then come up with a different follow-up line for each. Following that, they choose the correct verb to complete statements about the justice system and discuss whether they agree or disagree with four of them. Students then match sounds in courtroom vocabulary to practise pronunciation. After that, students listen to a real story about two trials involving the same crime and complete notes about each one. Finally, they complete statements with their own ideas about the case and consider how two more legal scenarios might unfold.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students complete gaps with letters to form courtroom vocabulary. Then, they choose four sentences and say what might have happened before. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it, cut it up and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
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