This awesome activity was provided by Antonella Amen from a country I love, Argentina. I hope you enjoy it.
My name is
Antonella Alem. I'm from Entre RÃos, Argentina. I've been teaching to students
of different ages since 2012. Right now, I am working at a private school of
English and I have a group of kids, two groups of teenagers and a group of
adults.
Th)
A.
Watch
the video and answer these questions.
THE JOKER
1.
How many robbers were there?
_______________________
2.
How did the get to the bank?
_________________________
3.
What were they wearing to hide their
faces? What type? ____________
4.
What did one robber put in a man’s
hands? ____________________
5.
Where did they put the money?
__________________________
6. How did the Joker leave the bank? ________________________
B.
Watch
the video again and complete these sentences using the simple past or past
continuous form of the verbs .
1.
A man _____________ (break) a window
and then ______________ (shoot) his weapon.
2.
A man _________________ (wait) in the
street when a car ______________ (arrive) and he ____________ (get) in it.
3.
Three men ___________________ (travel)
by car while they _______________ (talk) and_____________ (load) their guns.
4.
While the three men __________________
(enter) into the bank, one of them _____________ (start) shooting.
5.
One robber _____________ (kill)
another one while he __________________ (disconnect) the bank alarm.
6.
While a robber _________________ (try)
to open the bank vault door, he _____________ (be) electrocuted.
7.
One robber _________________ (shout)
at the people when the bank manager __________ (shoot) him.
8.
The bank manager ______________
(shoot) at the robbers while they ________________ (run) and ____________
(hide).
9.
When a robber __________ (open) the
vault, the other one ____________ (kill) him and ___________ (entered) to the
room where the money was
10. While
two robbers ________________ (argue), a bus _____________ (hit) one of them.
11.
The Joker ___________ (put) a bomb in
the manager’s mouth, ___________ (get) into the bus and _____________ (leave)
the bank
- Now is your turn to write your own story
about a robbery. Use the following questions as a guide and don’t forget
to use both past tenses as well as WHEN and WHILE. Write between 80 to 100
words.
ü Where was the robbery?
ü When did it take place?
ü How many robbers were there?
ü Were they wearing disguises?
ü Were they armed?
ü How many robbers were there?
ü What did the workers and customers do?
ü Was anybody injured?
ü What did the robbers take?
ü How did they get away?
ü Who called the police?
ü When did the police arrive?
ü Have the robbers been caught yet?