- a practice-oriented approach
Innovative Methods for Teaching Languages
Judit Borszeki
borszekij@gmail.com
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Training at the Faculty of Law Enforcement,
National University of Public Service
(former Police College)
Crime and Justice
◦ The structure of the coursebook
◦ Motivating students – brain-based learning
◦ Sample activities
◦ More activities
Useful web pages
WHAT?
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BASIC VOCABULARY
ROBBERY
BURGLARY
VEHICLE CRIME
PETTY CRIMES?
WHITE COLLAR AND
COMPUTER CRIME
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DRUGS
INTERNATIONAL DRUG
TRADE
SMUGGLING
INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
TRAFFICKING IN
HUMAN BEINGS
CRIME SCENE
INVESTIGATION
 INVESTIGATION
 CRIMINAL JUSTICE
 POLICING PUBLIC
EVENTS
 ORGANISED CRIME
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1 RESOURCE PACK
◦ 1.1 ADDITIONAL
EXERCISES:
PHOTOCOPIABLE
MATERIALS
◦ 1.2 ADDITIONAL
EXERCISES:
INSTRUCTIONS AND
KEYS
◦ 1.3 ADDITIONAL
LISTENING EXERCISES
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2 KEY TO EXERCISES
DVD (VIDEO AND AUDIO
MATERIAL FOR THE
LISTENING ACTIVITIES)
THE STRUCTURE OF UNITS
A: Reading and Vocabulary
B: Listening (video, audio)
C: Vocabulary practice
D: Glossary
E: Writing
F: Speaking
Presentation
Practice
Production
HOW?
The brain is attracted to novelty.
 It tends to be more active when exposed
to new ideas and challenges.
 Meaning is more important to the brain
than is information.
 The brain searches for meaning through
patterning, which allows for the storage
and connection of information into
meaningful categories.
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(Caine, 2001)
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Language learning becomes more effective in a
setting where social interaction and cooperation
takes place.
Learning involves both
conscious and
subconscious
processes.
(Caine, 2001)
The brain searches for meaning (through patterning)
Matching
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words  expressions
words – definitions
words - headlines
words/ stories – pictures
questions – paragraphs in texts
Ordering
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and sorting
sequence of events
ranking - order of importance, seriousness, preference
categorising
unscrambling letters, words
Filling
in gaps
◦ missing letters in words
◦ unfinished sentences
◦ cloze tests
Match the dominoes to make collocations and form a circle. The first two has been put in.
1 a) Put in the missing element of the collocation.
1. to _____ something to
one’s body
2. drug supply _____
3. to ______ penalty on
4. _______ route
5. law e__________
6. to _________ a
shipment
7. joint _________
8. liaison _______
1.to put somebody under
constant _________
2.landing _____
3.to ______ an arrest
4.to tip somebody ___
5._____ mule
6._______ dog
7._____ machine
8.to be ________ in custody
1 b) In pairs, write/ think of a dialogue in which you use (at least) ten of
the above expressions. Act it out to another pair. They have to check
whether you have used ten collocations by ticking the ones they have
heard. Then swap roles.
The brain is curious and meaningful
Prediction,
questions before reading/ listening texts:
6 a) Think of usual places smugglers hide drugs.
6 b) In January 2011 the UK Border Agency published a round-up of 2010's
more unusual drug concealments. Put the expressions back in the gaps and
match the pictures with 7 of the stories.
1 You are going to read about six cases UK Customs (HMRC)* dealt with. In which
ones do you think the authorities took measures?
a) A British tourist was coming home from Spain. Customs officers in Dover
found 1 kg of smoking tobacco and 50 bottles of Spanish wine in his car.
b) A pop star wanted to go through the green channel when coming back to the UK. Customs
officers found a tiger fur coat in his suitcase, which he said he had bought for his wife.
c) An electric stun gun was found in an Italian woman's luggage.
d) A 16-year-old Hungarian boy wanted to enter the UK carrying 2 litres of Egri bikavér
and 1 litre of Barackpálinka. He said he was bringing it as a gift for the family he would
be staying with in Britain.
e) A British family was returning from a holiday in South Africa where they had bought an
ivory statue. It had no licence from local authorities.
f) A coach carrying passengers on the way home from a trip to France was stopped and searched by an excise
fraud team. Of the 48 passengers, 13 were found to have a total of 97,000 cigarettes and 96 kilo of tobacco in
their baggage.
2 a) Read extracts from "A Customs guide for travellers entering the UK" to check
your answers. Write the letter of the case next to the regulation that applies.
How do you think the following words are related to robbery? Read the
text on the next page to check your answers.
heist villain alarm CCTV-camera screwdriver balaclava
revolving doors
quick-closing screens
queuing rails cow
Look at the titles of two newspaper articles. What do you expect them to be about?
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Puzzles:
Social interaction and cooperation
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Information gap, jigsaw activities
Work in groups of three.
Students A: Watch a video about the effects of drugs on the brain and do
the exercises.
Students B, C: Read the texts.
Find similarities and differences in the information you have learnt.
2F1 Work in groups of three. Students A (go to page 86) and B (go to page 89)
are the interviewers, student C is the interviewee.
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Messenger
Realia in a story
Taboo
With your back to the board
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E-learning? Cloud learning?
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Resources
◦ https://sites.google.com/ Create your own website
◦ http://www.discoveryeducation.com/freepuzzlemaker/index.cfm?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle free
puzzlemaker
◦ http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dominoes/ domino maker
◦ http://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/wordscramble/word-scramble-form.php word scramble maker
◦ http://www.kubbu.com/ Create on-line activities
◦ http://investigation.discovery.com/videos/ videos
◦ http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp newspaper
clipping generator
◦ http://www.vocabahead.com/StudyRoom/tabid/61/Default.aspx
vocabulary illustrated
◦ http://quizlet.com/ flashcard maker
◦ http://www.proprofs.com/games/word-games/hangman/ hangman
maker
◦ http://busyteacher.org/ downloadable material
◦ http://www.mindmapper.com/main/main.asp mindmapper software
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Interactive exercises – in class/ language lab /
autonomous learning
◦ http://forensics.rice.edu/ CSI: The experience
◦ http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/games.html
◦ https://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=courseselearning – Virtual tour of a police station
borszekij@gmail.com