This Bingo game will help you and your students to review the vocabulary on crime and punishment. It includes 8 Bingo cards, a master sheet and instructions for teachers.

1. Developed by Alina Dashkevich
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT BINGO
Aim To practise vocabulary on crime and punishment
Interaction Individual work, groups of two or three
Exercise type: Identifying definitions
Language: B1
Time: 15 – 25 minutes
Materials: One Bingo card for each student, or one Bingo card for two or three students, if they
work in pairs or groups.
Procedure: 1. If you want the students to work individually, then give each of them a Bingo
card. If students will be working in pairs, each pair receives a Bingo card with
words on it. Alternatively, students can also work in groups of three.
2. The teacher has a master sheet with definitions numbered from 1 to 25.
3. Students have a couple of minutes to look at their cards and the words on
them.
4. Then the teacher asks one of the groups to name a number from 1 to 25 and
the teacher reads aloud a definition corresponding to this number.
5. The students need to find on their Bingo cards the word that corresponds to
the definition and cross it out.
6. The next group or next student takes turn at choosing a number from 1 to
25, if they chose the number which has already been called out, they need to
pick another number.
7. The game ends when one of the team has crossed off four consecutive words
across , down or diagonally.
8. At the end of the game the teacher can ask the winning team to give a
definition of the four crossed-off words on their card.
9. The teacher can set a time limit for the game, if no team manages to cross
off 4 words in a line within this time limit, then the team that has the most
words in line wins.

2. Developed by Alina Dashkevich
MASTER SHEET
1. To take something from a place or a person, for example, if you do it to bank, the bank
will still be there but you take all the money from it.
2. This is how we generally call a person who steals something.
3. The crime of setting a fire to a building on purpose.
4. This is how we call a person who kills someone.
5. Taking something from a supermarket or a store without paying for it.
6. Stealing something secretly from bags or pockets.
7. A person who saw a crime happen.
8. Taking a person against their will to a certain place and keeping them there, using
force and threat. This is usually done in order to receive money for the release of the
person.
9. Entering a building by force with an intent to commit a crime.
10. Driving a vehicle after consuming alcohol.
11. Lying or cheating in order to obtain money from a person.
12. Taking control of a vehicle and holding the people inside the vehicle hostage.
13. Driving beyond the speed limit.
14. Damaging public or private property.
15. Money that you have to pay as a punishment for violating the law.
16. Doing unpaid work of social use, such as cleaning the streets or helping in the soup
kitchen.
17. Punishment for breaking rule or law.
18. Putting a person to death as a punishment.
19. A formal judgment made by a judge about the punishment of a criminal.
20. A certain number of months or years that a criminal has to spend in prison.
21. A person who breaks into a house or building to steal things.
22. Not guilty and not responsible for the crime.
23. To try to get information secretly about a person, a company, a place, etc.
24. A feeling that someone is possibly guilty of crime.
25. A person who is believed to be guilty of crime.

3. Developed by Alina Dashkevich
ANSWERS
1. Rob
2. Thief
3. Arson
4. Murderer
5. Shoplifting
6. Pickpocketing
7. Witness
8. Kidnapping
9. Burglary
10. Drink-driving
11. Fraud
12. Hijacking
13. Speeding
14. Vandalism
15. Fine
16. Community service
17. Penalty
18. Capital punishment
19. Sentence
20. Jail time
21. Burglar
22. Innocent
23. Spy
24. Suspicion
25. Suspect

4. Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
suspect arson kidnapping spy fraud
vandalism
jail
time
penalty witness shoplifting
community
service suspicion speeding sentence rob
thief fine hijacking burglary drink-
driving
pick-
pocketing
capital
punishment burglar murderer innocent
Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
drink-
driving
innocent kidnapping penalty suspicion
hijacking sentence arson community
service
vandalism
capital
punishment
pick-
pocketing
speeding
jail
time
thief
fine spy burglary witness burglar
suspect murderer fraud shoplifting rob

5. Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
jail
time
murderer rob burglar arson
kidnapping spy hijacking capital
punishment innocent
suspicion shoplifting speeding
drink-
driving
burglary
community
service suspect fine pick-
pocketing
sentence
thief witness vandalism fraud penalty
Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
vandalism thief burglar kidnapping murderer
penalty capital
punishment sentence arson community
service
fraud suspect speeding
drink-
driving
hijacking
rob spy suspicion pick-
pocketing burglary
witness
jail
time
shoplifting innocent fine

6. Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
thief suspect suspicion witness fine
arson hijacking murderer shoplifting kidnapping
penalty capital
punishment speeding
jail
time
drink-
driving
vandalism sentence fraud community
service spy
rob burglary innocent pick-
pocketing burglar
Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
arson community
service innocent burglar murderer
shoplifting penalty
jail
time
witness hijacking
burglary suspicion speeding pick-
pocketing thief
suspect capital
punishment vandalism fine rob
sentence fraud spy drink-
driving
kidnapping

7. Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
thief drink-
driving
shoplifting kidnapping innocent
pick-
pocketing murderer hijacking penalty vandalism
suspicion fraud speeding capital
punishment fine
rob suspect community
service burglar sentence
witness arson burglary
jail
time spy
Crime and Punishment
B I N G O
hijacking witness shoplifting burglary rob
suspect drink-
driving
community
service burglar vandalism
capital
punishment suspicion speeding
jail
time
arson
innocent thief sentence murderer fraud
penalty fine pick-
pocketing spy kidnapping