Criminally Fun! | Crime and Mystery EFL Speaking Board Game

Bring a little crime, mystery and plenty of creativity into your English classroom with Criminally Fun!, an entertaining EFL board game packed with speaking prompts, discussion questions and imaginative challenges. Students take turns moving around the board, answering questions, inventing stories, performing short challenges and putting their English skills to the test.

The printable board game features 40 challenge squares covering everything from crime related vocabulary and moral dilemmas to fictional detectives, suspicious behaviour and unusual criminal scenarios. Learners might find themselves explaining why they climbed through a neighbour's window, inventing a criminal alias, describing a stolen object without naming it or interrogating their own shoe! Other squares encourage more thoughtful discussions about crime, justice, personal safety and the law.

The game combines quick thinking, creative language use, discussion, memory challenges and playful performances to develop speaking fluency, descriptive language, confidence and spontaneous communication. Working in groups, students practise expressing opinions, giving explanations, using their imagination and responding to unexpected questions, all whilst enjoying a little friendly competition.

With straightforward instructions and a wide variety of challenges, Criminally Fun! is ideal for bringing energy and interaction into English lessons. Whether used as a speaking warm up, a group activity or a fun way to round off a crime and mystery themed lesson, no two games are likely to be quite the same!

This resource is also part of our Crime & Mystery | EFL Resource Pack, which is available to download here.

Perfect For:

• TEFL, ESL, EAL and EFL classrooms
• Speaking fluency and spontaneous communication
• Creative thinking, descriptive language and expressing opinions
• Group work, classroom games and speaking challenges
  

Please Note: Once you have completed your purchase, you will receive a PDF to download and print. This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped.