ESL Jigsaws

Murder in the Parking Garage

Posted by Nancy Callan on 8 June 2013 | 0 Comments

Tags: soft skills, death, murder, passive voice, simple past, present perfect, adjective, ESL, ELL, ENL, EFL, ESOL

In 2011 I wrote about teaching about death in the ESL / EFL / ELL classroom. Students know that they need the soft skills required to respond to news about a death. The Widow jigsaw in Contemporary Jigsaws 1 and 2 works as an effective springboard for this topic. While it focuses on the passive voice, there’s lots of scope for other grammar points. Here’s a suggestion of some follow up activities. Start with explaining the differences between the following and you will have students full attention:

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