The Die hard Lesson Plan

1 Explain to the students that you are the Mayor of your city and that you have just received the following fax.



2 Students read it and you deal with any unknown words or ideas.

3 Divide students into groups of two or three and explain to them that they are the mayors' advisors and they have to make recommendations. Most importantly they have to decide whether the money should be paid or not.

At this point students will say things like, "call the police" , or "ask the bank to say who the account belongs to." etc. Use your imagination to think of reasons why these obvious solutions cannot be used e.g. the Swiss authorities need a court order to open the account and that takes at least three days etc.

4 When the groups have come to a decision ask them to discuss it as a class. Tell the students that there has to be a unanimous decision for political reasons. Students should feel free to walk around the class at this point.

5 When a decison has been reached give them the second fax.

If they said that the money should be paid give them the following fax.



If they decide to not pay then give them this fax.


6 Students then discuss what should be done in their groups/ as a class.

7 This could be used as thebasis for a report/story/newspaper article/TV broadcast etc.