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.
Lesson Plan Content:
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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(burglar/ car/ personal/ rape) alarm
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(false/ under) arrest
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arson |
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assault/ GBH
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bag snatching |
blackmail/ extortion
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whistle blower/ tip off
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breathalyser |
bribe/ bribery |
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(online/ workplace) bullying
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burglary
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(CCTV/ security) camera
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cane/ caning
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car thief/ car theft
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carjacking
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(police/ prison) cell
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community service
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(police/ political) corruption
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(permanent) criminal record (check)
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dangerous driving
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(guard) dog
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drunk driving
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(on the spot) fine
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fake/ forge/ forgery/ forged… |
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(credit card) fraud
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(street/ motorcycle) gang (member)
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(Japanese/ Sicilian/ Chinese) gangster/ mafia
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graffiti
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groping
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hack/ hacker/ hacking
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handcuffs
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heist
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hijack/ hijacking
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hit and run
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(online) identify theft
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immobiliser
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kidnapping
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(pad-/ combination) lock
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manslaughter
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metal detector
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mugger/ mugging
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(1st degree/ attempted) homicide/ murder
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organised crime
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password
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pepper spray
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pickpocketing
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pilfering
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PIN
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(digital) piracy
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Ponzi scheme
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(open/ top security) prison (= jail/ gaol) |
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(capital/ corporal) punishment
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(armed/ bank) robbery
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(household/ bank/ combination) safe
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(phishing) scam
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security guard
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self-defence/ martial arts
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(prison/ suspended/ 5-year/ death) sentence
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sexual assault
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sexual harassment
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shoplifting
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slander/ libel
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squatting
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stun gun/ Taser
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terrorism
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(GPS) tracking
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truncheon
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vandalism
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vigilantes
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(official) warning
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white collar crime
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(eye) witness
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