Murder mystery  

Activity Type  Introduction​: 

In this game, students have to guess 
the victim of the crime by using 
speaking, listening, deductive  affirmative statements in past 
continuous describing who was 
activity murdered, where and doing what.  
 
Language Focus   Procedure: 
1. There  will  be  three  sets  of  10 
  cards  each.  (Characters,  Places 
Past Continuous / Past Simple   and activities)  
2. Each  set  of  cards  will  be 
Affirmative and Negative  shuffled.  
Statements  3. One  card  will  be  picked  from 
each  set  and  will  be  put  in  an 
envelope  so  none  of  the  players 
Aim can see them.  
4. Each  student  will  have  one  card 
from each set.  
To make affirmative and negative 
5. Students  will  start  making 
sentences using the Past  suppositions  one  by  one  about 
the  murdered  person,  where  was 
Continuous tense.  he/  she  and  what  was  he/she 
doing when he/she was murdered.  
Preparation  6. If  any  of  the  players  has 
either  the  character,  place  or 
Prepare cards with different  activity  that  has  been 
mentioned,  they  should  show 
characters, places and activities.  that  card  only  to  the  player 
who made the affirmation. 
Level  7. The  next  student  to  the  right 
will  now  make  his/her  supposition 
B1 (+12) and so on. 
8. They  will  start  making  by 
Time  discarding  the  characters,  places 
and  activities  they  are  shown 
20 - 30 minutes   until  one  of  them  figures  out 
the correct answer. 
9. The  winner  is  the  one  who 
guesses  which  character,  place 
and activity are in the envelope.  
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