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Assessment for Learning Resource Bank Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity –Spotting the Offenders

Learning objectives:

Text Types
  • Statements
  • Dialogues
  • Diaries
  • Notes
Vocabulary
  • Crimes and offences
    • suspects, alibi, red herring, clue, motive, evidence, witness, victim, criminal, murderer
Language Items and Communicative Functions
  • Use simple past tense, passive voice, reported speech, adverbs, etc., to refer to events in the past.
  • Use adverbs phrases and adverbial clauses of reason, concession, result, etc., to justify one's behaviour and point of view in simple situations
Language Skills
  • Reading
    • acquire, extract and organize information relevant to specific tasks
    • relate facts, opinions and information
    • understand different feelings, views and attitudes
  • Writing
    • evaluate and make use of given information to complete specific tasks
    • describe, express or explain ideas, feelings and experience
    • produce written texts appropriate to context, purpose and audience
    • plan and organize ideas and use appropriate cohesive devices
    • use appropriate tone, style and register for reporting
Generic Skills
  • critical thinking skills
  • problem solving skills

Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

L6-R-1-S3BC Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity (IS, KS, ES)

L6-R-2-S3BC Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity (KS)

L6-W-1-S3BC Writing a variety of texts of different purposes with relevant and generally adequate content (IS, KS, ES)

L6-W-2-S3BC Writing a variety of texts using punctuation marks, and a range of vocabulary and language patterns with some degree of appropriateness and accuracy to convey meaning (IS, KS, ES)

Level of Difficulty

3

Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)

To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level)

At S3BC (at S3 level)

Activity Description Suggested duration (minutes) Available for self - learning?
Part 1
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 Interactive Activity 1: Big Words to Learn
This activity exposes the learners to the vocabulary that generally found in crimes and mysteries. It is followed by an interactive exercise to consolidate the vocabulary items learnt. 		10 Image
Part 2
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 Interactive Activity 2: The X-Files
Students are asked to investigate three different cases and solve the problems or mysteries (e.g. Who’s the owner? Who’s the trouble-maker? Who threw objects from a height?) by relating to facts or evidence in the clues or statements made by the suspects and witnesses. 		45 Image
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 Writing Activity: Solving the Mystery
Students are asked to write a brief report about the third case (i.e. Who threw objects from a height?) and explain how the crime was solved. 		45 Image
 
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Key Stage 3 Targets:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:

KSb- To interpret and use more extensive information through processes and activities such as comparing, inferring and drawing conclusions
KSc- To produce formal written messages
KSd- To identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the situation
ESc- To respond and give expression to real and imaginative experience