ESL Jigsaws

These photocopiable group stories focus on vocabulary building along common themes and stimulate discussion through controversial questions in the areas of relationships and ethics.

Themes addressed in this book include:

• family
• health (a skiing accident, a car accident)
• transportation (driving, taking a bus and taking a plane)
• immigration and the stages of adjustment
• shopping (buying a dress and later returning it)
• personal descriptions (including hair vocabulary: dyed, permed, trimmed)
• banking (exchanging money, cashier theft)
• housing (furnishing an apartment and a break-in)
• daily routines
• gender roles and housework (incuding adjectives of frequency)
• Christmas (the beloved story "The Gift of the Magi")