INVESTIGATING A CRIME PROJECT

What? Represent a role play between a witness of a crime and a police officer. The police officer has obtained a
picture from the security cameras and interviews a witness about it.

 You DON’T HAVE TO give the dialogue to the teacher or upload anything.

 You MUST represent the dialogue in front of the class.

When? 3A March 8th, 3CD March 7th.

Who? In pairs

3A (25) 11 x 2 + 1 x 3 3CD (27) 12x2 + 1x3

2/2  Héctor and Steven 1 NO 1. Camila and Thalia → Picture 1 No

 Nicolás and Guerrero 2 2. Izan y Álvaro→ Picture2 Yes

 Lucas and Adrián F3 3.

9/2  David and Pablo 5 1. Hugo y Marín→ Picture4 No

 Guillermo and Arturo 6 2. Alex y Jeshua→ Picture5 No

 Iris and Nerea 13 3. Carlos y Oliver→ Picture6

 Izan, Eloy and Alex4

16/2  Dani e Iván 7  Daniela y Ainhoa→ Picture1

 Sebas and Jesús 8  Sergio, y Selene→ Picture2

 Cris and Alicia 9  Sara y Adriel→ Picture3

1/3  Gloria and Aitana 10  Aitor y Samu→ Picture 4

 Sara and Elias 11  Pedro y Dani→ Picture5

 Aarón and Eva 12  Gabriel y Diego→ Picture6

 Mara y Luna → Picture3

How? Based on a picture assigned, you have to create a dialogue between witness and police officer.

Resources? You will work with the conversation assisstant. You can design the dialogue with her, make her correct it
or help you with the memorizing and pronunciation. You choose. You MUST use different Grammar and Vocabulary
structures. Show me that you have learnt a lot this term

 Grammar required (all of them): past simple, present perfect and modals (can&may for probability, can’t for
impossibility). You can use grammar from other units (present simple, present continuous, past continuous,
determiners, comparatives.)

 Vocabulary required: crime, verbs (unit 2), connectors (units 2 and 7), speculating about a crime&talking
about a crime (unit 2). You can use vocabulary from other units (suggestions: journeys, shopping, jobs,
adjectives, transport, sports, urban life)

Grades? This task belongs to Speaking. It counts 10% of total mark of the term.
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VOCABULARY FLUENCY CONTENTS AND GRAMMAR PRONUNCIATION

ORGANIZATION

0: No vocabulary 0: Reads everything 0: Incomplete or with 0: Many 0: Not understandable

required or many no coherent ideas. grammar
1: Reads some parts 1: I can’t understand some
mistakes. problems.
1: Complete but some parts
2: Doesn’t read
1: Not vocabulary problems of 1: Uses less than
2: Good pronunciation.
from other units or organization or not 3 different
with many mistakes acting grammatical
structures
2: Vocabulary from 2: original, no
other units with not organization 2: Uses 3 or
important mistakes problems and some more
acting. grammatical
structures
VOCABULARY

◦ TO TALK ABOUT THINGS IN THE PICTURE:

▪ In the background / foreground …
▪ At the bottom / top …
▪ On the left / right …
▪ In the middle …

◦ TO SPECULATE
▪ Perhaps /
▪ Maybe /
▪ I think he’s / she’s …
▪ It looks / seems like …
▪ They’re probably …
◦ TO MAKE QUESTIONS

1. Have you ever………………………………………………...?

2. What did …?
3. What were you/was he…?
4. Were you/he…?
5. When did...
6. How long have you…?
7. What else…?
8. Who else…?
9. Was anyone..?
10. How many…?
11. Can you describe…?
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 Example (this dialogue doesn’t include the part of the
description of the photo, you have to add it) :
 Police officer: Please sit down, sir. I’d like to ask you a few questions about the theft of a
phone a few minutes ago
 Security guard: Yes, officer. I’ve just heard about it

 Police officer: Yes, I know. Let’s start. We think someone took the phone from the girl’s
handbag while she was looking at her phone. What were you doing an hour ago?

 Security guard: I was standing by the entrance of the store and monitoring people coming
in and out. I think the person who took her phone ran out the store to the right.

 Police officer: Tell me everything you remember. What did the person look like?

 Security guard: Let me think , I saw a man approach the victim in the back of the store. It
seemed like she was busy shopping, but I didn’t think anything of it. Then I heard the
woman say, “My phone has been stolen”. Suddenly the man, who I assume is the thief, ran
out of the store.

 Police officer: What else can you tell me about the man? Can you describe to me what he
was wearing?

 Security guard: I don’t know. I didn’t see his face because he was wearing a hat. I think he
was tall, but he ran past me very quickly. It seemed like he had dark hair underneath his
hat.∙
 Police officer: Was anyone with the man? .
 Security guard: Well, I do not think so. He ran out of the store alone.

 Police officer: Have you ever seen this man before today? If yes, what did you notice about
his behavior?

 Security guard: Um, I think I remember him in the store last week. Oh, and he didn’t buy
anything. ∙

 Police officer: Ok, I think it’s enough. Thank you very much for your help.
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