MINI LESSON: BANK ROBBERY

Structure/Vocabulary:  Simple questions and answers.Functions: Giving directions; following directions.Materials: Maps with streets and buildings labeled , police report sheets , students’ cards.

PRE - ACTIVITYSkills: Reading, writing, speaking.Organization: pairs.Procedures:

(1) In class, in pairs: Give each student a map and a card and have students look at themap and write 5 questions about the information written on their partne’s card. Where are you? What are you doing?(2) Then the student answer each other's questions (orally or written).

ACTIVITYSkills: Speaking, listeningOrganization:  groups of 4Situation:Tell students that they have found a bag of money that a man just robbed from a bank. They have to tell the cops where they found it, who were they with, what were they doing and where were they. Have students look at the map and have them place the chips that represent them and the cops.Procedures:

(1) Have students write the name of the store or building where they found the money.(2) In pairs, S1 is a police officer who is interrogating the other 3 students . The police officer asks the students about the location of the money and the other questions included in the handout.(3) When the police officer interrogates the students, they change roles.

POST - ACTIVITYSkills: Writing.Organization: Pairs.Procedures: In pairs, students fill out the police reports about where they found the money.\

POLICE REPORTInclude the following information:Where is the money? (Complete address or location)The money is in a drugstore on the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street.What buildings are near the money?There's a bank next to the drugstore. Amy's Restaurant is across from the drugstore.

REPORT ONE:

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