Video tip: Jigsaw reading
Teaching tip
Watch Dagmar explaining how to use jigsaw activities using texts from your course book. These activities are excellent to use because they practice the four skills – reading, speaking, listening and writing.
Tip: Why not try some of the ideas below.
Jigsaw partner finding
You can use the jigsaw method to make threes for a group exercise. Write sentences and cut them in three parts. Distribute the slips of paper and tell students to find the other parts of their sentence and complete their jigsaw. When students have found their groups ask them to read their sentence to the class.
Yesterday I
went to the cinema
and saw a good film.
Tomorrow I’m going
to meet my brother
and his wife.
They have never
been to New York
or San Francisco.
She always wears
black trousers
and a white blouse.
Would you
like ice cream
and fruit salad?
Do a real jigsaw!
Take three or four different, simple pictures and cut them into three or four pieces depending on the number of students in the class. Distribute the pieces. Each student describes the piece that they have and tries to find the other parts of ‘their’ jigsaw.
Student A: ‘I have some grass and a tree at the right.’
Student B: ‘I have a car on the street. It is raining.’
Student C: ‘It is raining in my picture, too. I have a dark house.’
Recipes
What about scones? Firstly, write out the whole recipe. Then delete every second sentence and make a copy. Go back to the original and delete the first and then every alternate sentence and make a copy.
Give student A the first version of the recipe and Student B the second version of the recipe. Together they have to complete the recipe.
