ESL resources
crime
Crime
You be the judge
B1-B2
Bank robbery story - passive voice
B1-B2
45 minutes +
groups: 2-3
Robbery story II
B1-B2
Passive voice practice - news story - The president has been shot
B1-B2
Alibis game - bank robbery story with narrative tenses
B1-B2
1 hour
groups: pairs / whole class
gap fill
question writing
Three English robberies
Three 250-word texts on the best-known UK robberies since WWII: the Great Train Robbery, the Brink's Mat robbery and the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary. PDF download with comprehension and vocabulary exercises.
Three 250-word texts on the best-known UK robberies since WWII: the Great Train Robbery, the Brink's Mat robbery and the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary. PDF download with comprehension and vocabulary exercises.
The Great Train Robbery of 1963
Graded reading text (606 words) with comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and speaking tasks. PDF download.
Graded reading text (606 words) with comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and speaking tasks. PDF download.
Material from other sources
Cyber crime 
26 March 2008 Presenter and guest talking about Internet crime. 6 minutes. MP3 download available. Difficult words glossary.
26 March 2008 Presenter and guest talking about Internet crime. 6 minutes. MP3 download available. Difficult words glossary.
Prison restaurants
Two presenters (British English) discuss language aspects of a news story about a restaurant that has opened in a prison. 6 minutes. MP3 download available. Difficult words glossary.
Two presenters (British English) discuss language aspects of a news story about a restaurant that has opened in a prison. 6 minutes. MP3 download available. Difficult words glossary.
Sherlock Holmes in Simple English: A Scandal in Bohemia
Story retold in modern English and simplified for students of English as a foreign / second language. Vocabulary based on the 2000 most common words in the British National Corpus.
Story retold in modern English and simplified for students of English as a foreign / second language. Vocabulary based on the 2000 most common words in the British National Corpus.
Video
Speakout Advanced Podcast Unit 4 Justice
People in the street answer questions about justice. Have they ever had reason to contact the police? Have they ever broken the law? What legal or social issues concern you the most? If you could introduce a law in your country or community what would it be?
People in the street answer questions about justice. Have they ever had reason to contact the police? Have they ever broken the law? What legal or social issues concern you the most? If you could introduce a law in your country or community what would it be?
Inside Out Student's Book Advanced
Unit 3 City Page 31 City life
Two people discuss the city they live in. Follow-up discussion on safety in students' home towns
Two people discuss the city they live in. Follow-up discussion on safety in students' home towns
Unit 6 News Page 53
Topic is not addressed directly - comes up in news stories - 'News in Brief'
Topic is not addressed directly - comes up in news stories - 'News in Brief'
Module 3 Adventures and mishap Pages 30 - 31 reading and speaking
Discussion about anti-social crime and reading about gentle policing methods in Denmark
Discussion about anti-social crime and reading about gentle policing methods in Denmark
Advanced Communication Games
22 Elementary, my dear Watson Page 22
Students read clue cards and make deductions to solve a murder
Students read clue cards and make deductions to solve a murder
2 Who killed Robbin Koch? Page 2
Complex murder solving role-play (16 role cards) in which participants need to ask each other questions to piece together events in the dead persons life.
Complex murder solving role-play (16 role cards) in which participants need to ask each other questions to piece together events in the dead persons life.
22 - It wasn't me, Officer Page 22
Role play with cards. Ss have to identify various suspects for thefts.
Role play with cards. Ss have to identify various suspects for thefts.
Just Listening and Speaking Upper Intermediate
Listening 16 - Crime doesn't pay! Pages 42 - 43
News-style reports of crimes that went wrong. (Humorous?). Some crime / court related vocab.
News-style reports of crimes that went wrong. (Humorous?). Some crime / court related vocab.
