Practices: Memory, Quick Thinking, Creative Thinking, Interrogatives, Past Tense
Breaking News:
Yesterday the bank at the corner of 5th and main was robbed. Police have caught three suspects. The police have the three suspects in separate rooms and will begin interrogating them shortly. The robbery happened between 5:00 and 9:00. The suspects claim to have an alibi. They say they were at the movies between 5:00 and 7:00, at the café between 7:00 and 8:00, and at the bowling alley between 8:00 and 9:00.
Three students leave the room and make an air-tight alibi (the bank was robbed and they are the suspects).
The rest of the class is divided into three interrogation teams and each team will interrogate each suspect in different corners of the room. The interrogation teams will record each “suspect’s” answers and then will come together and compare them.
If an interrogation team finds 5 mistakes then they have gathered enough evidence to put the suspects in jail. For example, the suspects claim they were at the cafe from 7:00 to 8:00 but when asked, “What did you drink?” one suspect says wine and another suspect says coffee. This would be one mistake. Hopefully the suspects will agree before hand on what they ate, drank, who paid, etc …
Supplementary Materials:
Match the words with their definitions:
Alibi: Didn’t do a crime.
Criminal: The place where a trial is held.
Convicted: Someone who did a crime.
Innocent: Did a crime.
Interrogate: Ask questions to suspected criminals.
Guilty: Facts, things, and testimony needed to prove
who the criminal is.
Court: Found guilty in a court of law.
Trial: Someone the police think may have done the
crime.
Suspect: A story (true or not) used to prove someone is
innocent.
Evidence: Someone who saw a crime.
Witness: The time when evidence is presented at a court and people decide if the suspect is guilty or innocent.
Interrogation Sheet
Suspect 1:
5:00 – 7:00 at the movies.
7:00 – 8:00 at the café.
8:00 to 9:00 at the bowling alley.
Suspect 2:
5:00 – 7:00 at the movies.
7:00 – 8:00 at the café.
8:00 to 9:00 at the bowling alley.
Suspect 3:
5:00 – 7:00 at the movies.
7:00 – 8:00 at the café.
8:00 to 9:00 at the bowling alley.