Alibi (doc)
A 'Who done it' ESL activity. One of my favorite activities because it generates so many simple past tense questions and can be used for a variety of levels. Three students leave the room and make an air-tight alibi (the bank was robbed and they are the suspects). The rest of the class is divided into three interrogation teams and each team will interrogate each suspect in different corners of the room. If an interrogation team finds 5 mistakes then they have gathered enough evidence to put the suspects in jail. For example, the suspects claim they were at the cafe from 7:00 to 8:00 but when asked, "What did you drink?", one suspect says wine and another suspect says coffee. This would be one mistake. Hopefully the suspects will agree before hand on what they ate, drank, who paid, etc ...
