B2 (BBC Reading + Vocabulary): Prison bank

Read and learn new words and expressions related to crime.
Exercise 

B2 ( Listening + Vocabulary): Harvard University- What's the right thing to do?

PRE-LISTENING

Episode 01

March 3, 2011

Part 1 – The Moral Side of Murder
If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing, even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? That’s the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning

Key words:

1st hypothetical situation.

trolley car

to hurtle down

side track

steering Wheel

2nd hypothetical situation.

to careen into

to give somebody a shove.

Watch the video and follow the lecture.
1. What's the right thing to do?
2. What would you do?

Have you realised how he uses the Word SuPPose...+ subject+ verb (past tense).

B2 ( Film-based activity): Crime and Punishment

I highly recommend this blog: Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals as it offers you film-based lessons to practise grammar points.
Reference document ( vocabulary and questions on the topic 'Crime'. Download here.


Today's topic was Crime and Punishment. to practise crime-related vocabulary and expressions follow these instructions:
1. ACTIVITY: Go to the blog and have a look at the activity. Read its introduction.
2. Download the worksheet.
3. Watch the video clip at the bottom of Movie Segments blog and answer the questions.


TIP! Try to use the vocabulary and expressions about punishments, types of crime, etc. we've gone through in class.


Hope you like it! We'll go over your answers next Friday.

B2 ( News): The most unconventional president

To listen to the news click here.