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Law and Order
The listening tasks are prepared on a trailer of the TV series "Law and Order". It is to introduce or revise vocabulary connected with CRIME. On the second page of the document I added possible...
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Legal English Exam Paper
This is a Legal English exam paper covering International Business Law for first semester students studying Legal English at a University. This paper covers the normal syllabus in Germany for foreign...
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Crime or Offense and their Definitions
Crime or Offense and their Definitions is a very popular worksheet for my legal English students. These terms and definitions help the student to understand what is meant by a particular crime and its...
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Song Worksheet: Hazard by Richard Marx [Using Past Simple, Connectors, Debate]
It's a simple worksheet with two tasks (gap-filling with connectors and verbs in Past Simple) and a debate on the theme of the song. I suggest using the video for the last part in order to find the...
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Crime Story Writing Prompts
Crime story writing prompts based on Upstream Advanced Unit 4. Use this work sheet to drill the phrases connected with crime and modern concerns. There's a beginning of a story, and students are...
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Death Penalty Worksheet
This worksheet can be used with upper intermediate to advanced English learners. It will help them get ready to talk about this controversial topic. It will allow students to give their opinions,...
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Movie worksheet: Die hard (1988)
It's a movie worksheet with a lot of screenshots and subtitles to discuss the main characters and the plot of the film including curses and lexis on terrorism and hostages. I used it for an...
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Crime. Notable Diamond Heists
This worksheet contains an article about different diamond heists that have occurred in recent history. Throughout the article, certain pieces of vocabulary have been highlighted in bold, the...
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Passive Voice Warmer
This activity is designed for a warm-up while studying passive voice. At first students can be asked to speculate about a picture of a kidnapped girl. After that, they are supposed to form sentences...
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Movie Worksheet: Dexter (Past Simple, Crime)
The topic of this worksheet is crime. This worksheet is based on the American series called Dexter. It provides lots of grammar exercises for the past simple tense. It includes gap-fill exercises....
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Crime and Punishment (Vocabulary)
This is a worksheet for revising vocabulary on crime and punishment and making ss speak and express their opinions. Cut the names of the crimes out of page 1 and give one set of words to each group of...
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Song Worksheet: She Said by Plan B (Reported Speech Warmer)
A popular song “She Said” by Plan B can be used as a warmer to start a lesson on reported speech or a fun activity to finish it with. Ss enjoy listening to the song and singing the first part, then...
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Movie Worksheet: Lie to Me. The Secrets of Body Language
This worksheet is based on the first 10 mins of the popular TV show "Lie To Me" (Season 1, Episode 1). It includes pre-watching discussion on what body language is and how it is possible to read...
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Murder Mystery
It's a simplified version of "Cluedo" board game to practise past simple and past continuous. The teacher sets the scene of the murder case and divides the students in groups. One group takes the role...
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Movie Worksheet: NCIS - Become a Detective
It is based on the episode of "Light Sleeper", Season 3 Episode 14. It basically starts with two Korean women that have been killed. Turns out they, and the Korean who found them all married US army...
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Murder Mystery
This worksheet is loosely based on Agatha Cristie's "The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge". The aim of the discussion is to find out who the murderer is. There are six suspects and three detectives, though...
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What's Your Alibi? Role Play (Past Simple vs Past Continuous)
Any kind of “Alibi” game is perfect for practicing past tenses (esp past simple and past continuous). Make up any story that something was stolen at the party at 10 pm last night. You can always...
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Crime Mystery
Who is the criminal? An engaging jigsaw reading comprehension mystery. It is an excellent role play reading best for upper-high intermediate who find working in groups an enjoyable activity. The...
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Detective Game: Who's the Murderer?
The game "Who's the murderer?" introduces the crime scene and the victim. Then there are pieces of evidence and the list of suspects. Read the introduction to the ss. Place the strips with evidence...
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Language for Law Enforcement
This is a vocabulary exercise for the law enforcement workplace. It presents word families ,multiple meaning and collocations of one word " arrest". The activities involve dictionary use, creation of...
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and punishment explains who does what in court and compares crime and punishment in different countries. What do people do in a court of law? Study the definitions, students get chance to...
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Crime Word Search
Another word search but with nouns and more general terms. I use it to have the students find the word themselves and then go through the list to ensure they know the meaning of the words in the...
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Controversial Topics
It was created to promote an interesting discussion about controversial topics. Teachers must be aware of students' opinion and act as a guide in the discussion. It would be helpful if polemic topics...
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Auschwitz: Surprising Beginnings 1 of 5
This is a listening activity with a set of questions with a link to youtube video included in the file. Nothing extraordinary but fits perfecty well when you want to conduct a lesson about history and...
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Bullying and Cyber Bullying: The Tragic Case of Amanda Todd
This worksheet was created to make my students think of bullying and Cyber bullying, and how it affects our society. It was also created to help them with the pronunciation of the ed ending of regular...
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Traffic Violation Article
Presentation for B level students (or up to C) to talk about abiding laws. Includes vocabulary about traffic and violations that work with the article (a real article!). It is a funny story about one...
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Song Worksheet: Balaklava by Arctic Monkeys
The worksheet is a gap-filling activity based on a funny fast-paced song "Balaklava" by Arctic Monkeys. The song is an allegory of love described as a robbery. The song is devoted to the topic of...
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Types of Crimes
It is a worksheet about the different kinds of crimes that we have in English. It can be used as a vocabulary game, where students can work individually or in a group to see how many meanings they can...
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Case Study: Victoria López
This case was designed for A2-B1 students, with basic understanding and usage of English. The main student group is Law Enforcement students, but learners of General English can also enjoy this tried...
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Personal Description (for Law Enforcement Purposes)
In this worksheet, students are given mugshots (and one page useful phrases) of infamous US-based serial killers. Their task is to compose personal descriptions. It is also possible to teach personal...
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Interrogation Cards (Law Enforcement Purposes)
A murder was committed at a multinational company. Police interrogate a suspect, who was a colleague of the victim. In this exercise, jumble the questions and answers and let students match the 15...
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Long Island Killer Worksheet (English for Law Enforcement Purposes)
This exercise is based on the ongoing case of the Long Island Killer: http://www.investigatingcrimes.com/monster-new-york-long-island-serial-killer/. There are 4 mini exercises: a gap-filling, a...
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5 Terrifying Unsolved Serial Murder Cases (Police English)
In this exercise students are required to read about 5 unsolved serial murder cases and they simply have to fish for information from the article. The worksheet includes a key. (Source:...
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Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer: Modus Operandi
The worksheet focuses on six serial killers and it is a reading exercise for B2 students. Looking for information and synonym finder can be found here with key. Students have to find one or more...
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Murder Story for Beginners
This exercise was designed as extra practice when I taught verb to be in the past. You can also use to review the same verb. I tried to keep the vocaulary very simple, but if you think some words will...
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Movie Worksheet: Sherlock Holmes(2009)
Here's my favourite website to watch films with subtitles and worksheet for about 15 minutes of it. There are clear tasks for your students to do and the video to enjoy. I usually use this while...
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Research Activity - Guy Fawkes
When was Guy Fawkes born? What was Guy Fawkes famous for? What was his occupation? This research activity asks kids to find out some information about Guy Fawkes and include their research in the...
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Types of Crime
A vocabulary and speaking activity for intermediate students. In part one, students read a situation and decipher jumbled letters to find the crime that is described in the situation. The first letter...
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Movie Worksheet: President Obama's Statement on the Paris Attacks
This is a worksheet for a listening and viewing comprehension about a statement that President Obama gave just after the attacks took place. Recommended level is pre-intermediate. It goes with this...
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Crime Jeopardy
This is a powerpoint that I made for ESL learners in middle school in France (the powerpoint is entirely in English) with vocabulary words they learned from a unit on crime. I played with the entire...
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Crime Vocabulary and a Short Discussion
This power point presentaion is to practice crime vocabulary. There are 18 pictures with captions that will help your students remember the new vocabulary. There are also some questions to discuss in...
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Movie Worksheet: Krampus
The pre-intermediate kids whom I teach absolutely hate fantasy movies and comedies, so I decided to engage them into the conversation and learning by offering a movie "Krampus: the Christmas evil"....
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Introduction to Legal English Crossword Puzzle
This crossword was developed to help review the vocabulary for an introductory legal English course. This covers about half of the course and the remainder will be uploaded shortly. The feedback I...
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Movie Worksheet: Bones Episode:The Proof in the Pudding
The tasks encompass after-watching exercises for listening comprehension of Bones series (The Proof in the Pudding-S05E12). They are designed for either in-class or extra activities for advanced...
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Gun Control in America (Not Suitable for Kids)
This worksheet deals with the question of gun control in the US by making use of the very funny comedian Jim Jefferies and his show on gun control. A good lesson sheet for advanced (adult) learners to...
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Past Continuous- Crime
This worksheet was devised as part of a didactic unit on crime, mystery and detective fiction. Since many of the police and detective questions tend to be in the past continuous, I decided to mix...
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Tenses Chart for the Police
This tense chart was made with law enforcement-related example sentences, otherwise it is a normal chart :) I have been teaching law enforcement English for 9 years now, and I made this chart for my...
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Crime And Law Vocabulary Worksheets
This is a set of vocabulary connected with crimes. It’s a 7 page worksheet on crime words formation. First page is a table with different crime words ordered by group. Second, third and fourth pages...
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Crime Crossword
My students usually enjoy doing crosswords and word searches. This is a crossword to review vocabulary related to crime. It can also be used to introduced the topic and check how many words they...
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Verbs: Rob or Steal?
This worksheet explains the difference between these confusing words, which students usually get wrong. There are clear examples of the two verbs and also the difference between the related nouns...
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