First class murder game

This particular episode takes place in the first-class compartments of a train in Snowbound travelers must determine who amongst them murdered a jockey on the way to the races at Oldmarket. Watson Android: "See this? See this? That's right. Email: Password: Remember Me for 30 days. Sign in with Google. Sign in with Facebook.

Forgot Password. Email: Reset Password. Card Game. Party Game. View All. Painton Place is an 18th-Century house built by Sir John Painton, the first baronet, in Rutting-on-the-Rise, a beautiful if isolated corner of Norfolk.

It's just the place to spend a couple of days on a cooking holiday. Based on a Hercule Poirot murder mystery by Agatha Christie. Enjoy a little murder with your dinner? One - or more of you is a murderer.

And your task is to discover who that is. Interview each other and find out your names, jobs, what you brought to the party, and how your relationship was with Mr. Guests interview each other to get character information. Give them the below sheet so they can write down information about the characters.

They only need to fill in the first three columns. The other two columns about time are for later. Each character has the answers to these questions on their character cards name, and 1 and 2 on the character card.

Cut them up and put them in an envelope separating the 8 pm and ones. This will decide what room they were in before and after the death of Mr. Unless their character card indicates what they were doing at that time, the students can invent whatever reason they want for why they were in that room.

Ask them what they were doing. Write your answers in the last two columns of the interview sheet. There was no blood anywhere or on the body. Please think about it. That is all the information I have. Discuss in groups. If you think you know what happened, please come see me. However, they should be able to notice that Wally found his snake in the adjoining room at And the fact that there was no blood on the scene should eliminate most of the items carried by the guests as the death weapon.

Students will likely accuse Dr. Watkins, since he had medicine. If they do, remind them that Dr. Watkins was only there to take care of Mr. Grim who has a weak heart condition. Once they remember Mr. My students enjoyed the activity. But, why was the doctor there?? After teasing this out, one student suggested the correct solution. Some of the boys were let down because no one was murdered in the end, but overall, it was a good activity.

It kept the students communicating and entertained for two minute classes. All the above materials maps and worksheets are available here for download: ESL-Mystery.

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I too felt like I searched forever. Thank you for a great starting place. Doing this today with grade 7 Humanities class 40 students. Have adapted by adding more characters. That must have been complicated to plan. It will take forever for the students to interview each other maybe this is a good thing ;. Hi, thanks so much for this.

I completed the activity with Thai adults and it worked really well with a mixed level class- I gave out pics of the objects to help, and modified some of them to remove the love making items!

With 10 of us playing it took an hour. Thank you! I have tried to plan an activity like this one more than once without success. I am looking forward to using this tool! This is a great critical thinking activity. Thank you, Trevina. Also, thank you for your kind donation! The money has gone to the hosting bill, which is very helpful. I wish there were more mysteries online for ESL class.

Heck, coming up with just one was trying. Thank you for the vote of confidence though. I hope your class goes well! Thank you so much for this! My class just wrote their exams yesterday and we have a field trip tomorrow, so I wanted to do something fun today.

They had a blast while sipping on Perrier and pretending they were at a fancy party. It was really exciting when one of the students figured it out at the end!