Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Law

Students tell stories based on useful crime and law vocabulary, using their imaginations if they like, classify that vocabulary, then test each other on it in different ways.

Crime vocabulary discussion questions

Students try to explain similar but different legal English words and expressions, including common confusions between legal terms, with two homework writing tasks.

Pronouncing numbers and legal vocabulary practice through a fun pairwork guessing game, including warmer cooler hints using comparative adjectives, then more controlled practice of how to say numbers in different ways.

Extended speaking on patents topics, parts of speech error correction with patents collocations, then patents conversations for freer practice of patents vocabulary, good for Legal English and maybe Technical English ESP courses.

Students ask questions to get more support for arguments they are listening to such as examples and personal experiences, brainstorm useful phrases for supporting arguments with other sources etc, then can use that language in freer speaking about law.

Defining crime and punishment vocabulary through answering subject questions with "Who...?", with optional subject questions grammar presentation and crime vocabulary further practice.