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IT'S A CRIME

In this unit we are going to make our imagination fly!

We are going to create a narrative about a mysterious incident you went through one day or just imagine what could have happened...

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LISTENING 

Watch the video to find out more about Sark in the Channel Islands.

​Click here to answer the questions in the video.

VOCABULARY

Words to learn

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GRAMMAR

Watch the tutorial about PAST CONTINUOUS to answer the questions below:

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1. Why do we use past continuous for?

2. How is past continuous formed?

3. Examples (affirmative, negative and question)

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LE'TS CREATE WITH PADLET: What do you know about mysteries?

Pick up ONE mysterious monument from the list below and EXPLORE it!

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  • Glastonbury Tor (England)

  • Great Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)

  • Mount Tai (China)

  • Notre-Dame (Paris)

  • Petra (Jordan)

  • Silbury Hill (England)

  • Teotihuacan (Mexico)

  • The Bermuda Triangle (North Atlantic Ocean)

  • The Carnac Stones (France)

  • The Crop Circle Mystery (England)

  • The Externsteine of Teutoburg Forest (Germany)

  • The giants of Easter Island (Chile)

  • The megalithic temples of Malta (Malta)

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Search the internet for: 

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  1. Where does the mystery come from? Which culture is involved?

  2. What is the mystery about? 

  3. Is there any research about it?

  4. What does the research say about it?

  5. Why did you pick it up? 

  6. Have you ever had any mysterious experience or episode in your life? 

  7. VISUALS: include images and a video

  8. Optional: record the writing in point 5 or 6 being read out loud by you.

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  • The Mysterious death of Cleopatra

  • The Mystery of Peru’s Nazca Lines

  • The Newgrange passage tomb (Ireland)

  • The Parthenon

  • The ruins of Tiwanaku (Bolivia)

  • The Stone circles of Avebury (England)

  • The terra-cotta warriors of the first Qin Emperor (China)

  • Tiermes, the Stone city (Spain)

  • Uluru (Australia)

  • Yonaguni Monument, Japan’s underwater pyramid (Japan)

  • The Great Sphinx of Giza (Cairo)

  • The Lost City of Atlantis

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The giants of Ester Island (Chile)

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Click here to see everybody's creations

WRITING: a mysterious narrative

Activity 1, 2 and 3

Notre-Dame (Paris)

LISTENING

Click here to do the listening marathon

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