- Students work in pairs and open the following pages.
- Students ask and answer the questions provided using the past simple or present perfect.
- The grammar tense for the partner's answer is provided, so students should correct each other's answers if the incorrect tense is used.
- What kind of petty crime did you ever do as a child? (Partner should answer in the past tense)
- What have you brought to school today? (Partner should answer in the present perfect tense)
- Have you watched a crime tv show this week? What about last week? (First answer should be present perfect, second should be past tense)
- What is the most difficult thing you have ever cooked? (Ask for details - partner should answer in the past tense)
- What did you recently watch that you didn't like? (Partner should answer in the past tense)
- Have you been following the news all week? (Partner should use present perfect continuous to correct the duration)
- What have you heard about in the news today? (Partner should answer in the present perfect)
- Do you listen to crime podcasts?
- If "yes": How long have you been listening to crime podcasts?
- If "no": When was the last time you listened to a crime podcast?
- Have you heard of any interesting crime cases in the last month? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect)
- If "yes": What kind of case was it about? (Partner's answer should be in the past tense)
- If "no": How long has it been since the latest news on the case ? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect: "It's been...since I last followed up on it.")
- Is the case now open or closed? Why? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect to explain the present result)
- What did you watch last night? (Partner's answer should be in the past tense)
- What did you love learning about when you were a child? (Partner's answer should be in the past tense)
- Have you done any research on cold cases or older crime stories? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect tense )
- How long have you been using Netflix? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect tense)
- Have you been doing any exercise lately? (Partner's answer should be in the present perfect tense)
- What are the most exciting crime dramas you have seen or heard about recently? (Partner's answer should be in either the past tense or present perfect)