Materials included:

 1 'case card'
 13 Justin's movements cards
 1 Justin's movements template

How to use the game?

This activity focuses on asking questions about past events using the past simple or
past progressive form.

 The game may be played in groups of four or five.

 Students will be asked to help Sherlock Holmes to solve a murder case.
 The main suspect is Justin Bieber and there are 13 cards containing details of
Justin's movements that evening.
 The students should read them together and find out if he could have
committed the murder or not.
 The object of the game is to reorder Justin's evening and figure out if he is
guilty or not.
 The group that finishes the first is the winner!

Instructions for the teacher:

1. Copy and cut one set of cards for each group in your class. (The 'case card'
and 13 cards of justin's movements).
2. At first, hand out the 13 cards, ask them to shuffle them (or you can do that
before hand) and place them face down in the middle of the group.
3. Hand out the case card, Read aloud the "case card" together with the whole
class.
4. Point out they should ask questions in the past and elicit from them the
question form of past simple/progressive tense.
5. Hand out the Justin's Movements Template
6. Let the game begin!
7. The group that finishes the first is the winner!
8. The winners may present the solution to the other groups.
9. Important! The answer is that Justin is not guilty since he was watching a
movie with his brother and sister when the murder took place.
10. Important! The cards are already in the right order. Make sure the group that
solved the case also ordered the events correctly.

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 The case

A murder was committed last night. Mrs. Robinson was found dead in her living
room. She had been hit on her head with a hammer, and jewelry worth 20,000
dollars had been taken from the house.
The murder took place between 7 and 10.30 p.m.
Sherlock Holmes suspects Justin Bieber, who has a key to the old lady's house, and
who lives in the same neighborhood.

The cards contain details of Justin's movements that evening. Read them together,
and try to work out if he could have committed the murder or not.

Turn up one card at a time from the pile, and talk about what happened and when it
happened: what happened before it, what happened after it.

At 7 o'clock he went to his sister's house for half an hour.

A friend came to visit at 7.45.

His friend knocked on the door while he was making dinner.

His friend stayed to eat dinner.

His friend left shortly after 9. p.m.

He was saying goodbye to his friend when the phone rang.

He was speaking with his mother on the phone when there was a knock on the
door.

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 His neighbor wanted to borrow some sugar.

He invited his neighbor in and they talked until about ten.

He was saying goodbye to his neighbor when the phone rang again. It was his
friend, who had forgotten his keys.

After he finished talking on the phone, his brother and sister came in.

They all went to see a film.

After they had coffee and talked about the film, they all went to bed.

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