Lesson Overview

Your advanced ESL students will love this lesson as it makes for great conversation and teaches them some common phrases and phrasal verbs. Phrasal verbs are usually a challenge for students and that is why this lesson serves a great purpose in showing these verbs in context. 

This advanced ESL Crime lesson plan starts with a quote. Then, students learn new vocabulary about crime through news headlines and discussion questions. Later, students practice the modal verbs of should and must and see the small differences between them. Next, students go to an activity about the lesson video about the prison system in Norway. 

This interesting video by Vox is explored with questions and a speaking activity. Thereafter, students learn some common phrases used when we talk about crime and practice using them. Following that, students need to debate about prison systems and the death penalty. Lastly, students have to discuss some questions as a class.

Activities: 

1. Warm up. 
2. Crime vocabulary. 
3. Must vs Should. 
4. Video analysis. 
5. Common sayings.
6. Debate.
7. Idioms.
8. Discussion. 

Homework

In this advanced ESL Crime lesson plan, students get the chance to practice their writing in the homework task. Then, they practice some more modal verbs with a grammar activity. Lastly, they have to complete an exercise with phrasal verbs. Activities: 

1. Writing task. 
2. Grammar: Must or Should. 
3. Phrasal verbs. 
4. Idioms practice.