Using multimedia material in teaching Technical English at the Hungarian Police College - a practice-oriented approach Innovative Methods for Teaching.

Using multimedia material in teaching Technical English

at the Hungarian Police College

- a practice-oriented approach

Innovative Methods for Teaching LanguagesJudit Borszeki [email protected]

Training at the Faculty of Law Enforcement, National University of Public Service

(former Police College)

Crime and Justice ◦The structure of the coursebook◦Motivating students – brain-based learning

◦Sample activities◦More activities

Useful web pages

CRIME AND JUSTICE

BASIC VOCABULARY

ROBBERYBURGLARYVEHICLE CRIMEPETTY CRIMES?WHITE COLLAR AND

COMPUTER CRIME

WHAT?

CRIME AND JUSTICE

DRUGS INTERNATIONAL

DRUG TRADE SMUGGLING INTERNATIONAL

COOPERATION TRAFFICKING IN

HUMAN BEINGS

CRIME AND JUSTICE

  CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

INVESTIGATION  CRIMINAL JUSTICE  POLICING PUBLIC EVENTS 

ORGANISED CRIME

CRIME AND JUSTICE1 RESOURCE PACK

1.1 ADDITIONAL EXERCISES: PHOTOCOPIABLE MATERIALS 

1.2 ADDITIONAL EXERCISES: INSTRUCTIONS AND KEYS  

1.3 ADDITIONAL LISTENING EXERCISES 

2 KEY TO EXERCISES 

DVD (VIDEO AND AUDIO MATERIAL FOR THE LISTENING ACTIVITIES)

A: Reading and Vocabulary Presentation

B: Listening (video, audio)

C: Vocabulary practicePractice

D: Glossary

E: WritingProduction

F: Speaking

THE STRUCTURE OF UNITS

The brain is curious and meaningful

The brain is attracted to novelty.It tends to be more active when exposed to new ideas and challenges.Meaning is more important to the brain than is information.The brain searches for meaning through patterning, which allows for the storage and connection of information into meaningful categories.

(Caine, 2001) 

HOW?

The brain is social, conscious and subconscious

Language learning becomes more effective in a setting where social interaction and cooperation takes place.

Learning involves both conscious and

subconscious processes.

(Caine, 2001)

The brain searches for meaning (through patterning)

Matchingwords expressionswords – definitionswords - headlineswords/ stories – picturesquestions – paragraphs in texts

Ordering and sortingsequence of eventsranking - order of importance, seriousness, preferencecategorisingunscrambling letters, words

Filling in gapsmissing letters in wordsunfinished sentencescloze tests

Match the dominoes to make collocations and form a circle. The first two has been put in.

1 a) Put in the missing element of the collocation.

1. to _____ something to one’s body

2. drug supply _____3. to ______ penalty on4. _______ route 5. law e__________6. to _________ a

shipment 7. joint _________ 8. liaison _______

1.to put somebody under constant _________ 2.landing _____ 3.to ______ an arrest4.to tip somebody ___5._____ mule6._______ dog7._____ machine8.to be ________ in custody

1 b) In pairs, write/ think of a dialogue in which you use (at least) ten of the above expressions. Act it out to another pair. They have to check whether you have used ten collocations by ticking the ones they have heard. Then swap roles.

The brain is curious and meaningful

Prediction, questions before reading/ listening texts:

6 a) Think of usual places smugglers hide drugs. 6 b) In January 2011 the UK Border Agency published a round-up of 2010's

more unusual drug concealments. Put the expressions back in the gaps and match the pictures with 7 of the stories.

1 You are going to read about six cases UK Customs (HMRC)* dealt with. In which ones do you think the authorities took measures?

a) A British tourist was coming home from Spain. Customs officers in Dover found 1 kg of smoking tobacco and 50 bottles of Spanish wine in his car.

b) A pop star wanted to go through the green channel when coming back to the UK. Customs officers found a tiger fur coat in his suitcase, which he said he had bought for his wife.

c) An electric stun gun was found in an Italian woman's luggage.

d) A 16-year-old Hungarian boy wanted to enter the UK carrying 2 litres of Egri bikavér and 1 litre of Barackpálinka. He said he was bringing it as a gift for the family he would be staying with in Britain.

e) A British family was returning from a holiday in South Africa where they had bought an ivory statue. It had no licence from local authorities.

f) A coach carrying passengers on the way home from a trip to France was stopped and searched by an excise fraud team. Of the 48 passengers, 13 were found to have a total of 97,000 cigarettes and 96 kilo of tobacco in their baggage.

2 a) Read extracts from "A Customs guide for travellers entering the UK" to check your answers. Write the letter of the case next to the regulation that applies.

How do you think the following words are related to robbery? Read the text on the next page to check your answers.

heist villain alarm CCTV-camera screwdriver balaclava

revolving doors quick-closing screens queuing rails cow

Look at the titles of two newspaper articles. What do you expect them to be about?

Puzzles:

The brain is more active when exposed to new ideas and challenges

Social interaction and cooperation

Information gap, jigsaw activities

Work in groups of three.Students A: Watch a video about the effects of drugs on the brain and do the exercises.Students B, C: Read the texts. Find similarities and differences in the information you have learnt.

2F1 Work in groups of three. Students A (go to page 86) and B (go to page 89) are the interviewers, student C is the interviewee.

Using both hemispheres

MORE ACTIVITIES

MessengerRealia in a storyTabooWith your back to the board

INTERNET – THE FUTUREE-learning? Cloud learning? https://sites.google.com/ Create your own website

Resourceshttp://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/index.cfm?campaign=flyout_teachers_puzzle

free puzzlemakerhttp://www.toolsforeducators.com/dominoes/ domino

makerhttp://worksheets.theteacherscorner.net/make-your-own/word-scramble/word-scramble-form.php

word scramble makerhttp://www.kubbu.com/ Create on-line activitieshttp://investigation.discovery.com/videos/ videoshttp://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp

newspaper clipping generatorhttp://www.vocabahead.com/StudyRoom/tabid/61/Default.aspx

vocabulary illustratedhttp://quizlet.com/ flashcard makerhttp://www.proprofs.com/games/word-games/hangman/

hangman makerhttp://busyteacher.org/ downloadable materialhttp://www.mindmapper.com/main/main.asp

mindmapper software

INTERNET – THE FUTURE

Interactive exercises – in class/ language lab / autonomous learning

http://forensics.rice.edu/

CSI: The experiencehttp://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/games.html

https://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=courses-elearning

– Virtual tour of a police station

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