How do you think eggs would cope with the passing of an unpopular law?🥚🚜 Well in this video, this is what happens, but the eggs have other plans. Watch to learn advanced vocabulary related to protests and restoring order. Sound on! Anyway, the eggs were behaving really nicely until … boom💥💥💥
Whether you’re talking about a crime scene, a witness, or the moment something happened, relative clauses help add detail and make your English more precise. This cheat sheet and interactive quiz will guide you through the most common types, including defining and non-defining clauses, as well as useful relative adverbs like where, when, why—and even…… Continue reading 🕵B1/B2 Relative Clauses Cheat Sheet – Grammar for Crime & Beyond!
📚 This Lesson at a Glance This lesson explores the controversial question of whether young offenders should be punished like adults. Using an authentic video report and an adapted text, students will build key vocabulary related to youth crime, discuss the root causes and consequences of rising violence among teenagers, and practise their opinion-writing skills.…… Continue reading B2 Should Young Offenders Be Punished Like Adults?
Here’s a dark and dramatic vocabulary + speaking activity that will bring some serious atmosphere to your lesson on crime and punishment. Designed for B2 learners, this short video quiz blends vocabulary revision, collocations, and open-ended discussion prompts—all wrapped in a moody, suspenseful tone that grabs students’ attention from the very first second. 🔦 Expect…… Continue reading B2 Speaking Activity: Crime & Punishment (with Suspense!)
I was so depressed when I saw the contents related to the Past Perfect. The Past Perfect Continuous was equally disheartening. I thought I had to do something much more interesting. After all, why can’t grammar be interesting or even amazing? So I found some inspiration from Cristina Cabal’s lesson using a Heyzine flipping book…… Continue reading B2 An Interactive Lesson on the Tower of London, Grammar, and Mystery
What types of crimes are rising in your country? What are people currently worried about concerning crime? Look at the picture below. How would you classify this list ranging from 1 to 10 according to its frequency? Serena’s blog In the following listening activity, you will hear about the rise in knife crime in London.…… Continue reading C1/C2 Listening Knife Crime in London
Photo by Isabella Mendes on Pexels.com Paul Worsley, former judge, discusses the dilemma a parole board faces when it comes to deciding whether a person convicted of murder can be released into the community. In this listening activity, you will listen to an interview from Talkradio Europe. Fill in the blanks with the word(s) you…… Continue reading C2 Listening Working on the Parole Board
Hi there! I’m back with some innovations. This is the first one I’m going to try out, that is, creating a quiz with the plugin Quiz Cat. Some of you will somehow be a bit surprised that I should place the category of these two words under B2 and C2, when it’s almost obvious that…… Continue reading Confusing words: rob and steal
Have you ever witnessed a crime? What happened? For this activity, I’ve used a picture captured by a surveillance camera and I wrote a short description of what I thought was happening. Of course, I could not be sure, so that was why I was making guesses. In the example, you’ll see that I used…… Continue reading Modal verbs: Making a guess in the present
Warren Wong Unsplash I already had a quiz created for upper intermediate, but it obviously wasn’t challenging enough for higher levels, so I hope this one does the job as you will find approximately 60 expressions to practise with. I’m very grateful to Collins Dictionary online where I found loads of helpful examples along with…… Continue reading C1/C2 Vocabulary for crime and punishment
