Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity –Spotting the Offenders

Learning Targets for Key Stage 3:

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

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Generic Skills

-Statements

Crimes and offences

suspects, alibi, red herring, clue, motive, evidence, witness, victim, criminal, murderer

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

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
　

-critical thinking skills

-problem solving skills

Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

L6-R-1-S3BC

L6-W-1-S3BC

L6-W-2-S3BC

Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity

Writing a variety of texts of different purposes with relevant and generally adequate content

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

Level of Difficulty

	-- Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)
	-- To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level)
	-- At S3BC (at S3 level)

*Activity*	*Description*	*Duration* *(min)*	*Available for Self Learning*
Part 1	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
Part 2	Interactive Activity 2: The X-Files Learners 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
Part 3 Activity Sheet Suggested Answer	Writing Activity: Solving the Mystery Learners 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