ESL Jigsaws

These photocopiable books of group stories and exercises transform the classroom into a hub of communicative, co-operative activity, with very little preparation required by the teacher.

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")