План урока с использованием ТМИ "crimes & punishment"

T. Kuzminykh, K. Kuznetsova, Y. Bryukhova 752 group

Multiple Intelligence Lesson Plan

УМК “New Millennium English 10 - 11” под редакцией О.Л. Гроза

Topic: Crimes and Punishment

Time: 120 min

Student Objectives:

Students will

Develop different types of intelligence Develop the reading skills (reading for getting specific information) Think critically by comparing different methods of investigation, different traits of character necessary for a detective Use graphic organizers to identify punishment for various types of crimes Practice research skills by completing tasks developing logical-mathematical, visual-spatial types of intelligence Present research projects to the class Watch a video-fragment developing verbal-linguistic type of intelligence and audio-skills (listening for getting specific information) Apply the writing process by suggesting their own continuation of the video-fragment


A Foreign-language Lesson Plan

Involving the topic “Crimes and Punishment”

Phase 1: Ask the students about the main factor of an advanced-developed society. Ask them if a society can be called developed in case it doesn’t have any system of punishment. Ask the students: Who maintains the system of punishment and whether police is the only social institution that solves crimes and punishes criminals.

Share the goals of the lesson with the learners. Tell them that after the lesson, they will be able to recognize the types of crimes and other words related to the system of punishment. Furthermore, they will learn more information about one of the most outstanding detectives of the world – Sherlock Holmes, his techniques of solving cases and they will also try to solve the case and to find the robber.

Next, invite them to suggest real-life situations in which they may have to discuss or describe some crime in a foreign language.

Time: 5 min

Development: existential type of intelligence

Phase 2: Ask the students what they know about Sherlock Holmes. You can ask some leading questions: Where is he from? Why is he so famous? Did he gain world-wide recognition? What crimes did he solve? Did he have companions/assistants? What is his method of conducting an investigation? What traits of character helped him? Tell the students that now they are going to check whether they were right or not.

Invite the students to read out the text entitled "The Mystery of Sherlock Holmes" to the learners. Ask them to listen carefully and to pay special attention to the various types of crimes (reading for getting specific information). You could also invite one of the learners to do the reading.

Sherlock Holmes is the fictional creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote about the detective in a series of 60 stories published between 1887 and 1927. Holmes was famous for his extra-keen powers of observation and deduction, which he used to solve perplexing crimes and mysteries, such as: assassination, mugging, perjury, treason, blackmailing. But most of all he enjoyed cases of forgery, homicides, robberies and swindling.

Holmes states that he first developed his methods of deduction while an undergraduate. Holmes's primary intellectual detection method is deductive reasoning of the solution to a crime. Deductive reasoning allows Holmes to impressively reveal a stranger's occupation.


His earliest cases, which he pursued as an amateur, came from fellow university students. According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession, and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective solving first only misdemeanors and then turning to more serious cases of manslaughter, felony, embezzlement and trespassing.

He operated from his flat at 221b Baker Street in London, assisted by his friend Dr. Watson. Until the arrival of Dr. Watson, Holmes worked alone, only occasionally employing agents from the city's underclass, including a host of informants and a group of street children he calls "the Baker Street Irregulars". The nefarious criminal Professor Moriarty appears as Holmes's antagonist in some of the tales.

Sherlock Holmes was an immediate hit in Doyle's day and remains so popular that he is sometimes mistaken for a real historical figure. Among the most famous Holmes stories are A Study in Scarlet (the first Sherlock Holmes story, 1887) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902).

Time: 10 min Development: verbal-linguistic, inter-personal types of intelligence

Phase 3: Divide the learners into pairs and ask them to list different crimes mentioned in the text and to provide answers to the following questions:

What kinds of cases did Sherlock Holmes solve when being an amateur detective?

What types of crimes did Holmes like most of all?

Why do you think he liked cases of these kinds most of all?

What kinds of crimes did Holmes’s deduction help him to solve?

In which way did it help him according to your point of view?

What are the most difficult crimes to solve, to your mind?

Time: 5 min

Development: inter-personal, Logical-mathematical, verbal-linguistic types of intelligence

Phase 4: Ask the students what traits of character helped Sherlock Holmes to solve crimes. What other traits of character could have helped him if he had them.


Ask the learners to make individual description of an ideal detective, which traits of character he/she should posses, how he/she should solve cases, which cases he/she will like most of all and why, whether he/she should work alone or with a companion, whether he/she should have a detective agency, whether he/she will help the police in investigations or they will compete, etc. Ask several people to tell to the class about their ideal detective.

Time: 10 min

Development: Intra-personal, existential, verbal-linguistic types of intelligence

Phase 5: Tell the students that now they are going to try to feel what it is like to be a detective or investigator.

Divide the learners into 3 groups and give each group a picture of the crime scenes shown below. Ask each group to find the items listed on the left side of the picture.

When they finish, ask them what a detective can take as evidences; what an investigator should look for on a crime scene; how a detective find can evidences; etc.

Time: 10 min

Development: Visual-spatial, inter-Personal types of intelligence


Phase 6: When the learners finish, ask them whether it was difficult to find evidences. Invite them to play a role play and find out the robber. Follow the tips:

Explain to the students that they have witnessed a crime. Ask them to read the roles that you give them Give each student a role. Allow them time to read their roles and then tell them to stand up and mingle with the entire group. As they mingle they should share the information about their roles to one another. At the end of the activity put the students into pairs and ask them to tell each other all of the information that they found out from the other students. As a follow up activity ask the students to write a report of the crime based on the information that they found out.

Time: 20 minDevelopment: Bodily-kinesthetic, inter-personal, logical-mathematical types of intelligence

You were standing near the drug store; you were talking to a friend who had just come back from vacation. You were listening to her tell you all about her time in Mexico. Suddenly, you noticed three people running from the store.

You were talking to a friend about your vacation outside the drug store, suddenly, your friend shouted, "Look!" You noticed three people running from the store; one was carrying a large bag

You were waiting in the drug store for a prescription, you were angry because you had been waiting for a very long time. Suddenly, a man pushed in front of you and started shouting. It was 3.30pm; you knew because you had been waiting for your prescription since 3pm!

You were behind the counter in the drug store - serving customers. You were hungry and angry because the customers were being so impatient and you had missed lunch. Suddenly, a man ran up to the counter and told you to handover the money.


You were helping your friend behind the counter in the drug store, you actually work in the bakery next door but it was your break and so you decided to visit your friend – now you wish that you hadn't! Suddenly, a man shouted, "Give me the money!" You tried to hide but he saw you! He had blue eyes and was wearing a green shirt and a black sweater with a hat. Your friend gave him $2,000.

You heard a man shouting in the drug store; you were looking for headache tablets. Suddenly, you heard a man shout, "Give me the money!" It was 3.30pm; you were going home to watch Oprah Winfrey, she was doing a special program on violent children.

You were standing near the counter in the drug store, you saw a man wearing a casual pair of black pants and a sloppy sweater. You were surprised because it was the middle of the summer. Suddenly, he shouted, "Give me the money!"

You were holding the door of the drug store open for a woman with a baby. She had a lot of things to carry and so you tried to help her when suddenly two men pushed you; you almost fell! As they ran away, you saw that they were wearing black sweaters.

You were walking into the drug store with your baby. You wanted to buy some diapers. You noticed a man open the door for you, but as you walked through the door two men came out and pushed you out of the way.

You were standing by the mailbox near the drug store trying to mail some letters, when you saw three men running from the store. One had a bag and two were wearing black sweaters, the last man was following them, he was wearing a red shirt.

You were working at the front of the drug store putting cans on the shelves. You were wearing a red shirt and a black pair of pants. Suddenly, you saw two men running from the store with a bag. You ran after them to try to stop them.

You are a police officer. You were standing on the street corner. You suddenly saw three men running toward you; you knew that they were in trouble. You chased them but you only managed to catch the one wearing a red shirt and black pants. When you told him to stop he resisted.


You were watching TV at home; Oprah Winfrey was on - your favorite. It was about 4.15pm when the phone rang, it was the police, they said that John had been arrested for stealing money from the drug store. You couldn't believe it- not your son and not when your favorite program was on!

You own the drug store. The police called you at 5pm to say that they had arrested John. You have no idea what happened but you always thought that he was a problem.

Phase 7: Ask the students if a society should have different punishments for different crimes and whether it is important for a society to have a well-structured system of punishment.

Divide the learners into new groups of three and ask each group:

to decide among themselves what kinds of crime are the most serious ones to categorize the mentioned in the text types of crime and to create their own crimes and punishment system, as shown in the example Present their tables in front of the class

Time: 15 min

Development: inter-personal, Logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, naturalistic types of intelligence

Crimes of Example Society X

Killing People Punishment Level 11Stealing/Vandalism Punishment Level 9Treason, Sedition and speaking against the Government

Punishment Level 7

Assaulting A Guard or Soldier Punishment Level 5


Phase 8: Ask students what type of crime they consider to be the most severe one. Ask the learners if a homicide is a serious crime. Now suggest them to watch a video fragment from the film “The Study in Scarlet” how Sherlock Holmes solves a case of murder (watching for getting specific information).

Let them watch the fragment for the first time. When finished ask the students to do the task with true/false statements individually, see the table bellow Check the answers and discuss the them with the class Let the learners watch the fragment for the second time Ask the students to continue the story suggesting their own end in written form

Let the learners watch the fragment for 2 times. When they finish check their answers. Only after that they can begin writing the end of the story.Time: 20 minDevelopment: Verbal-linguistic, visual-spatial, musical-rhythmical, Intra-personal types of intelligence

Statement True False

1. The policemen came to the place of the murder by cab

2. The bloodspots were all over the place of the murder

3. The victim intended to write female’s name – Rachel

4. The murdered man managed to finish writing the name on the wall before the homicide

came

5. Sherlock Holmes gathered some ash to analyze it later in the lab

6. A male’s wedding ring fell down of the victim’s pocket when the body was moved

7. The policeman found a lot of objects in the pockets of the victim: A gold watch, Gold

Albert chain, Gold pin -- bull-dog's head, with rubies as eyes, Russian leather card-case, with

cards of Enoch J. Drebber of Cleveland, corresponding with the E. J. D. upon the linen. No

purse, but loose money to the extent of seven pounds thirteen. Pocket edition of Boccaccio's

`Decameron,' with name of Joseph Stangerson upon the fly-leaf. Two letters – one addressed

to E. J. Drebber and one to Joseph Stangerson


8. Sherlock Holmes made notes on the cuffs of his liner

9. Sherlock Holmes said that the culprit was a woman named Rachel

Phase 9: As the final phase of the lesson, ask your learners to work with a computer game “The Lost Cases of Sherlock Holmes 2” and help him to solve all the cases in order to find the evil genius who planned all the crimes.

Ask the students whether professor James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes have something in common; what traits of character both of them have; whether the same traits of character and skills can be used both for good and for bad, etc.

Time: 25 min

Development: visual-spatial, intra-personal, existential types of intelligence

Phase 10: Reflection. Ask student to tell what they learnt during the lessons on the topic, which tasks they liked most of all and why, whether they liked such form of lesson or not and why. They should fill in the graphic organizer of the reflection and then you can suggest them to discuss their emotions/feelings in class.

Here the students are asked to devise a series of actions and to place them on the two axes (reward and level of difficulty). Here the reflection is in two phases: firstly the students have to devise the list of “points to plot”, and then they must decide where each action is best placed.


Time: 5 min

According to Gardner (1983, 1993, 1999) and Berman (1998/2002), verbal-linguistic learners enjoy expressing themselves orally and in writing, and love wordplay, riddles and listening to stories. Mathematical-logical learners display an aptitude for numbers, reasoning and problem solving, whereas visual-spatial learners tend to think in pictures and mental images, and enjoy illustrations, charts, tables and maps. Bodily-kinesthetic learners experience learning best through various kinds of movement, while musical-rhythmic learners learn best through songs, patterns, rhythms and musical expression. Intrapersonal learners are reflective and intuitive about how and what they learn, whereas interpersonal learners like to interact with others and learn best in groups or with a partner. Naturalist learners love the outdoors and enjoy classifying and categorizing activities. Existentialist learners, finally, are concerned with philosophical issues such as the status of mankind in relation to universal existence.


Catering for the various intelligence types

The various intelligence types are catered for in particularly during the following phases of the proposed foreign-language lesson:

verbal-linguistic learners: all phases

mathematical-logical learners: phases 3, 6, 7

visual-spatial learners: phases 5, 7, 8, 9

bodily-kinesthetic learners: phase 6

musical-rhythmic learners: phase 8

Inter personal learners: phases 3, 5, 6, 7

intrapersonal learners: phases 2, 4, 8, 9

naturalist learners: phase 7

existentialist learners: phases 1, 4, 9

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