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Crime & Punishment- Extended Speaking Bluffing Game

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

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.

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Crime and punishment extended speaking bluffing game

Take a card (your own choice or at random) and say a true or false story about that thing and/or using that word. Make sure that it’s a story that your partner doesn’t know.

OR

Flip a coin to show if you should say something based on personal experience (heads) or something you heard, read, saw etc (tails), pick a card, then tell a true or false story on that topic and/or using that word.

OR

Give your opinion on one of the topics below, supporting your argument with true or false personal stories or things you heard, read, etc.

Your partner will listen, maybe ask you questions to get more details, and then guess if what was true or not. To make guessing more difficult, it is best to avoid names of people, companies, etc.

Useful phrases for starting your story

o   “A friend of mine told me that…”

o   “I have found that…”

o   “I have (had) personal experience of this.”

o   “I heard that…”

o   “I read (on…/ in…) that…”

o   “I saw a report on…”

o   “I saw/ heard on the news that…”

o   “In last week’s… Times/ News/…, there was an article which said that…”

o   “In the newspaper a couple of days ago/ a few weeks ago/ … ago it said that…”

o   “One day (a couple of years ago) I was…ing when…”

o   “This (actually) happened to me (when…)”

o   “This happened to someone I know.”

o   “This has never happened to me (personally), but…”

o   “This is not a (very) well-known case, but...”

Ask about any words below that you don’t understand, working together to tell matching stories each time. 

Look at all the words below and label them with C for crime or P for prevention/ punishment. Some could be both.

Check your answers as a class, then test each other on the vocabulary by reading out something and seeing if your partner can say if it is C for crime or P for prevention/ punishment.

Choose crime or punishment and help your partner brainstorm suitable vocabulary.

Draw a mind map and put categories, sub-categories and examples of crimes and punishments, first of all without looking at the cards below.


Crime and punishment/ prevention cards to speak about and classify

 

(burglar/ car/ personal/ rape) alarm

 

 

(false/ under) arrest

 

 

arson

 

assault/ GBH

 

 

bag snatching

 

blackmail/ extortion

 

 

 

whistle blower/ tip off

 

 

 

breathalyser

 

bribe/ bribery

 

(online/ workplace) bullying

 

 

 

burglary

 

 

(CCTV/ security) camera

 

 

cane/ caning

 

 

car thief/ car theft

 

 

carjacking

 

 

 

(police/ prison) cell

 

 

 

community service

 

 

(police/ political) corruption

 

 

(permanent) criminal record (check)

 

 

dangerous driving

 

 

(guard) dog

 

 

drunk driving

 

 

 

(on the spot) fine

 

 

fake/ forge/ forgery/ forged…

 

(credit card) fraud

 

 

 

(street/ motorcycle) gang (member)

 

 

(Japanese/ Sicilian/ Chinese) gangster/ mafia

 

 

graffiti

 

 

 

groping

 

 

hack/ hacker/ hacking

 

 

handcuffs

 

 

 

heist

 

 

hijack/ hijacking

 

 

hit and run

 

 

 

(online) identify theft

 

 

immobiliser

 



 

kidnapping

 

 

 

(pad-/ combination) lock

 

 

manslaughter

 

 

metal detector

 

 

 

mugger/ mugging

 

 

(1st degree/ attempted) homicide/ murder

 

 

organised crime

 

 

 

password

 

 

pepper spray

 

 

pickpocketing

 

 

 

pilfering

 

 

PIN

 

 

(digital) piracy

 

 

 

Ponzi scheme

 

 

(open/ top security) prison (= jail/ gaol)

 

(capital/ corporal) punishment

 

 

(armed/ bank) robbery

 

 

(household/ bank/ combination) safe

 

 

(phishing) scam

 

 

 

security guard

 

 

self-defence/ martial arts

 

 

(prison/ suspended/ 5-year/ death) sentence

 

 

sexual assault

 

 

sexual harassment

 

 

shoplifting

 

 

 

slander/ libel

 

 

squatting

 

 

stun gun/ Taser

 

 

 

terrorism

 

 

(GPS) tracking

 

 

truncheon

 

 

 

vandalism

 

 

vigilantes

 

 

(official) warning

 

 

 

white collar crime

 

 

(eye) witness

 

 

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