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Crime vocabulary

Intermediate B1-B2
Groups of 2-4
 
Worksheet description

Six-page set of worksheets for 16 intermediate level crime words:
assault, blackmail, burglary, corruption, forgery, fraud, hijacking, kidnap, mugging, murder, rape, robbery, smuggling, theft, shoplifting, terrorism plus corresponding verbs and nouns for people.

Instructions

Dominoes (20-30 minutes)
Cut up the cards as indicated.
Divide them equally among the students in the group.
Any student can start by laying down any of his/her cards face up.

Students try to complete the two words on the first card.
They should proceed one card at a time*.
Demonstrate on the WB if possible.

*Note: They should not have all the cards face up on the table at the start of the game as this is far more difficult to do and not every student will be focused on every match.

Word cards and definition cards (20-30 minutes)
There is a set of 16 cards for crime nouns and corresponding sets for criminals and crime verbs, and a set of matching definitions. The same 16 terms are used except where there is no corresponding term in the word family.
The cards can be used as follows.
Matching activities – words and definitions; nouns with verbs etc.
Guessing activities - word cards are distributed among a group, Each student has to communicate the word on his/her card without saying it (miming, giving a definition etc.
Ordering and grouping activities – order from most to least serious; group crimes against people vs crimes against property etc.

Gapped sentences (20minutes)
Cut up the sentences. Students take it in turns to read out the sentence with the blank. Other students in the group must try to complete the sentence with the correct word. Note that the sentences require crime nouns, crime verbs and nouns for criminals.

Reference sheet
Students complete the word grid with correct parts of speech. This makes a handy reference sheet with a column for notes / translations etc.

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