ESL resources
crime
Crime
B1-B2
groups: 2-4
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.
B1-B2
Nine short news-in-brief stories gapped for the following crime words:
kidnapped, kidnapper, ransom, hijacked, mugged, smuggle, murder, blackmailed, arson, fraud, manslaughter
B1-B2
Dominoes game for past / present / present perfect tenses - bank robbery theme
C1
groups: 2-4
Six-page set of worksheets for 16 upper-intermediate / advanced level crime words:
arson, child abuse, drunk driving, drug trafficking, embezzlement, manslaughter, money laundering, perjury, phishing, pickpocketing, piracy, libel,
stalking, treason, trespassing, vandalism plus corresponding verbs and nouns for people.
C1
Matching activity based on the vocabulary hightlighted in BBC 6 minute English programme 'Cybercrime' .
Link
Crime vocabularyRevises words covered in Real Listening and Speaking 3, page 52.
Material from other sources
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.