Crime and Punishment

The following paragraph and key words come from a mistery story.
You have to act the detective and ask your teacher questions. Use past simple, past continuous or past perfect.
Your teacher will only answer: YES or NO.

Crime and Punishment

A man got on the train and sat down in a compartment which was empty except for one lady. She took her glove off. A few hours later the man was arrested by the police. They held him for 24 hours and were then forced to let him go free. 

GARDEN
LOVER
30 YEARS
VANISH
JAIL

Solution:
Thirty years before, the gloved lady had been lmarried to the man on the train. She and her lover had disappeared and left the country. Before vanishing they had cut off the two middle fingers of her left hand and buried them on the garden. The police found the fingers while investigating her disappearance and accused the man of murdering his wife and burying the rest of her somewhere else. He was jailed for 30 years for a crime he had not committed. 
He did not recognise her at first on the train. When she took off her gloves he did. He killed her. The police had to release him as he had served his life sentence before committing the crime. 

Spy

1- Students stand up and mingle, meeting people and talking. 

2- When asked questions, anyone with a "true" card must give true answers; anyone with a "false" card must lie (except about your name), inventing false llife stories. 

3- Afterwards. form small groups of 4-5. Each group should try to work out who was "true" and who "false", writing a list idetifying all suspected "false" people. 

4- We'll finish up with a whole-class stage when the lists are read out and the truth is revealed. 

Groups get 3 points for each "false" person correctly spotted, but minus 3 for anyone incorrectly identified. 

Questions:

COVID-19

How do you feel about the covid issue? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? 

Have you seen the documentary on Netflix “Coronavirus, explained”?

Have you had the coronavirus disease?

Do you know anybody who has had the disease?

ENGLISH

When was the last time you spoke in English?

When was the last time you wrote something in English?

Did you practice your English while you were on holidays? Foreign friends, TV series, films, blogs, youtubers, instagramers, tictok...?

RESEARCH PROJECT

Did you work on your Research Project during the summer? What did you do? Research, started writing it….

Did you read any sites in English with information about your research project topic?

PEOPLE & PLACES

Did you meet any new people in the summer holidays or was it difficult under our present unusual circumstances? 

Did you travel anywhere? Parents or grandparents hometown / village? 

Have you been anywhere which you had not been to before?

Evaluation Criteria

Course 2020-2021

Each exam will consist of:

• 50% Reading, Listening, Grammar and Vocab.
• 50% Writing

On missing an exam date, you will only be allowed to take the exam another day if you have a paper from the doctor or any other oficial organism. 

You final mark will be the average mark of the 3 terms. 

Each term your grade will be calculated according to the following criteria:

• 80% exams
• 10% home compositions
• 10% reader (if there is one)
• The final grade will be rounded up/down with your speaking performance.