What do your fingerprints say about you?

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): What do your fingerprints say about you? - BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content

Police have long been able to identify suspects from their fingerprints. Now, scientists are pioneering a technique that tells police what suspects were touching before the crime - be it drugs, food, petrol or any number of other substances that could help detectives piece together a profile.

In this B2+ worksheet, students will learn finger-related idioms; they will revise subject, object and reflexive pronouns; and they will match common hand gestures with their names. They will also put their comprehension skills to work on an article and video about how scientists are pioneering new fingerprint technology.

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Lesson objectives:

1) To match six hand gestures with their names (to flip someone the bird, to do jazz hands, to give someone a thumbs up, etc.)

2) To study the difference between subject, object and reflexive pronouns, using an exercises related to fingers.

3) To understand nuance and puns with three finger-related jokes, about a judge, a broken finger and a doctor.

4) To explain how scientists are pioneering new fingerprint technology, using information gathered from a short news segment.

5) To expand the students' repertoire of idioms, matching six finger-related idioms/phrasal verbs with their definitions. 

6) To practise reading comprehension by studying an article about the new fingerprint technology, and how it was successfully used in a UK court case to corroborate the prosecution's case.