We are discussing the topic of crime and punishment in class and a reviewing some vocabulary to do with the unit in through a questionnaire and a listening activity. For homework students had to revise some vocabulary and watch the foolowing interactive video I got from BBC news. I consider this is a good option, first because it is unabridged material from real news, with adequate duration and secondly, because it refers to a kind of crime they may have suffered themselves or witnessed in their lives and, therefore, can comment on it later on in class.
The learning objective is that they understand real news, get familiar with a common crime which is not normally taught in the lessons, they can work at their own pace and anticipate the grammar point of the passive voice we are going to see in the classroom next day.
I flipped this part of the lesson so that next day I asked them about the video, elicit some vocabulary and grammar structures to introduce the topic of the passive voice. I think this is a different way of introducing grammar, as they have to answer certain questions where passive voice is used and recognize the structure they should already know.
This video was the basic for working the grammar points and and a later discussion on the most common crimes inour city, and whether they (or someone they know) had ever witnessed a crime, what happened, or if they knew someone who had had their mobile stolen, etc. They got engaged in the activity and they found it rewarding that they could actually understand the news and talk about their experiences.
I uploaded onto my Moodle platform through a link, but I didn´t manage to assign it to the class and I couldn´t see my students answers. Although I followed the instructions EdPuzzle gave me, I couldn´t do it properly. I need to look into it.
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