| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- explore and practise financial crimes vocabulary;
- watch an explainer video about money laundering;
- discuss financial crimes and their implications.
With this lesson, students study words and phrases (e.g. fraud, bribe, extortion, etc.) to talk about financial crimes. They watch an explainer video about how money laundering works, talk about financial crimes in films and real life, and discuss real cases of financial fraud and organized crime. Students also read a film synopsis and talk about their personal opinions on how criminals and financial crimes are depicted in films and media.
FINANCIAL CRIMES VOCABULARY AND VIDEO
This lesson starts with a warm-up where students look at the lesson title and say how it is linked to the words greed, knowledge and anxiety. After that, they complete statements about financial crimes with the correct form of words (e.g. counterfeit, evade, embezzle, etc.). Then, students explore financial crimes vocabulary and do tasks in which they examine the words more closely. Next, students watch a video about money laundering and choose the best summary for it. Afterwards, they read excerpts from the video and complete gaps with words or phrases (e.g. mark up, bank runs, legitimate, etc.). Then, they watch the video again and check their answers. Following that, students look at the words and phrases they completed and explain their meanings.
DISCUSSION
In the next part of this lesson, students practise financial crimes vocabulary and discuss money laundering and its implications, prevention methods, and challenges in international cooperation. Then, they use words and phrases (e.g. marked up, fraudulent, flagged, etc.) to complete the gaps in texts about infamous cases of financial fraud and organized crime. After that, students look at the texts and discuss questions about their opinions on financial crimes, including a criminal’s motivations, prevalence, and representation in the media. Following that, students read a film synopsis and complete statements about perceptions and portrayals of criminals and financial crimes in films with their own ideas.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. They complete gaps with one word to practise financial crimes vocabulary. Then, they choose three sentences and use one of the words in brackets to say what happened next. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
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amazing lesson
Much appreciated!
Sorry, I thought this was a bit of a miss. I did it with a very fluent almost C2 learner and we both struggled with it.
Particularly … The instructions weren’t very clear for some of the exercises, e.g. slide 20. “Look at the excerpts …” What excerpts?
Sorry for the negativity. I teach high level students so appreciate when C1 and C2 lessons are added, but this isn’t one I’m going to do again.
Hi John! Thanks for taking the time to comment. Sorry the lesson didn’t go well. I guess I can only say that the excerpts mentioned in the rubric are the ones listed under the rubric in the same slide.
Hmm, but that doesn’t appear on the e-lesson screen, which is how I teach the students – totally virtually. Are you saying I need to have both the PDF and the e-version open at the same time? Maybe the time stamps could be added into the speaker notes?
The pdf and the e-lesson have the same content so there is no need for you to use both. And the timestamps are in the speaker notes in slide 23 (the one with the answers). It would be great if you could contact us at [email protected] and send a screenshot of what you see in slide 20. Otherwise it might be difficult to identify what the problem is. Thanks!
First class stuff !
Having classes in banking environment me and my students find such topics highly attractive and necessary to brush up “trade” vocabulary.
I would appreciate if scripts on e.g.: authorized push payment fraud, gameboy theft, grandparent scam or pump-and-dump cases were raised and developed too…
Obviously I do not mean providing instruction “how to…?
Thanks! I’m glad the lesson is useful 🙂 And thanks for the ideas!
Is it just me, or won’t the teachers’ version pdf download? I get “Error establishing a database connection”
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