According to your class size, place a card face down on a table and get your students to pick a card each.

When everyone has a card, tell your students they have to solve a murder.

The students must give actions with words to help their fellow classmates guess their part in the murder.

If a student has a card with a room written on it, they should make actions to help fellow students guess what room they are trying to describe.

The idea is for students to find out who the murderer is and have fun doing it!

The instructor must obviously decide the murder plot before the lesson and give clues to help the students throughout the game.

Example:

Plot: The victim was killed in the snooker room with an axe.

Clue 1: This room has a long table in it but you can't eat off this kind of table.

Clue 2: This is a large sharp object.

End with a class discussion to find out what the students thought of this game. Feedback also creates an interactive classroom.

N.B. If you have a class of beginners you should go through the cards first to check understanding of the present vocabulary and then start the game. In addition the clues and plot should also be a reasonable degree simpler.

Previous to such a lesson it is also a good idea to run through additional vocabulary so that when your students come to play this game they have a good base to start from.

For example: Items in the kitchen:- Ironing board, kettle etc.
Items in the salon: Sofa, TV, CD player.

Print off the 'ready made' cards in the game material section on card so that they can be used again and again.