Crime & Punishment- Extended Speaking Bluffing Game

Crime & Punishment- Extended Speaking Bluffing Game

Take a card (your own choice or at random) and say a true or false story about that thing

and/or using that word. Make sure that it’s a story that your partner doesn’t know.

OR

Flip a coin to show if you should say something based on personal experience (heads) or

something you heard, read, saw, etc, (tails), pick a card, then tell a true or false story on

that topic and/or using that word.

OR

Give your opinion on one of the topics below, supporting your argument with true or false

personal stories or things you heard, read, etc.

Your partner will listen, maybe ask you questions to get more details, and then guess if

what you said was true or not.

Don’t say any names of people or companies, e.g. the famous person who a crime

happened to.

Useful phrases for starting your story
o “A friend of mine told me that…”
o “I have found that…”
o “I have (had) personal experience of this.”
o “I heard that…”
o “I read (on…/ in…) that…”
o “I saw a report on…”
o “I saw/ heard on the news that…”
o “In last week’s… Times/ News/…, there was an article which said that…”
o “In the newspaper a couple of days ago/ a few weeks ago/ … ago it said that…”
o “One day (a couple of years ago) I was…ing when…”
o “This (actually) happened to me (when…)”
o “This happened to someone I know.”
o “This has never happened to me (personally), but…”
o “This is not a (very) well-known case, but...”

Ask about any words below that you don’t understand, sharing stories each time.

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Look at all the words below and label them with C for crime or P for prevention/

punishment.

Test each other on the vocabulary by reading out something and seeing if your partner can

say if it is crime or punishment.

Choose crime or punishment and help your partner brainstorm suitable vocabulary.

Draw a mind map and put categories, sub-categories and examples of crimes and

punishments, first of all without looking at the cards below.

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Cards

(burglar/ car/ personal)

alarm

(false/ under) arrest

arson

assault/ GBH

bag snatching

blackmail/ extortion

whistle blower/ tip off

breathalyser

bribe/ bribery

(online/ workplace) bullying

burglary

(CCTV/ security) camera

cane/ caning

car thief/ car theft

carjacking

(police/ prison) cell

community service

(police/ political) corruption

(permanent) criminal record

(check)

dangerous driving

(guard) dog

drunk driving

(on the spot) fine

fake/ forge/ forgery/

forged…

(credit card) fraud

(street/ motorcycle) gang

(member)

(Japanese/ Sicilian/

Chinese) gangster/ mafia

graffiti

groping

hack/ hacker/ hacking

handcuffs

heist

hijack/ hijacking

hit and run

(online) identify theft

immobiliser

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kidnapping

(pad-/ combination) lock

manslaughter

metal detector

mugger/ mugging

(1st degree/ attempted)

homicide/ murder

organised crime

password

pepper spray

pickpocketing

pilfering

PIN

(digital) piracy

Ponzi scheme

(open/ top security) prison

(= jail/ gaol)

(capital/ corporal)

punishment

(armed/ bank) robbery

(household/ bank/

combination) safe

(phishing) scam

security guard

self-defence/ martial arts

(prison/ suspended/ 5-year/

death) sentence

sexual assault

sexual harassment

shoplifting

slander/ libel

squatting

stun gun/ Taser

terrorism

(GPS) tracking

truncheon

vandalism

vigilantes

(official) warning

white collar crime

(eye) witness

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