Witness

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Teachit Author
Witness
Main Subject
Category
Grammar: Past tenses
Resource type
Complete lesson
Skills
Reading
Skills
Speaking

Students read a witness statement, practise the past simple and past perfect tenses, and investigate a brutal hamster murder.

Activities include:

  • putting the events of the story in chronological order
  • finding examples of the tenses in the text
  • completing gapped sentences
  • playing an 'alibi' speaking game.

An extract from the resource:

Task 6

Alibis

Last night, sometime between six o'clock and nine o'clock, a hamster was murdered in your school. The police want to know what everybody was doing at that time yesterday - anybody without a good alibi will be arrested!

Work in pairs.  Talk with your partner and decide what you were doing together between six and nine last night. Check that you both agree on all the exact details.

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