SynopsisYou are invited to join Lord Bartholemew (Barty) and his wife Lady Penelope (Pe) for dinner at Griffin Lodge. Also living there is Lady Winifred (Lady Pe´s mother), the gardener Bob and his girlfriend Tilly, who is the family´s maid. The show begins as everyone is running around and organising the house for dinner. Lady Winifred is terrified her jewels are going to be stolen. Barty´s wife is suspicious of her husband and Lady Penelope is very fond of Bob the gardener. However, he has plans to run off with Tilly and get married in secret. To add to the confusion Lily, Tilly´s twin sister, appears. Just when things seem to be getting really complicated, a dead body is found. Someone has been murdered…

Getting to know the social background where the play is set.

WORKSHEET 1 Necessary to understand the playRead the explanation of the social setting and then look at the photos and speculate about these people. Answer the questions in pairs. Do not check the answers yet. Wait until they have read the descriptions of the characters on WORKSHEET 2. ANSWERS: a3 and 4, b1, c3, d4, e2 and 5, f3 and 4, g1, 2, 5

Getting to know the characters in the play.

WORKSHEET 2 (2 pages) NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE PLAYGet the students to look at the pictures and read the text about each character. This is an introduction to the characters in the play. Ask the students to underline any words or phrases they do not understand. Now they can check whether their answers about the characters on WORKSHEET 1 were correct or not. On page 2 they can complete the diagram using the key to show how the characters are related to one another. ANSWERS: See appendix 1

Glossary.

WORKSHEET 3 NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE PLAY

There is some difficult vocabulary in the play, which is necessary in order to understand the story. Tell the students to match the words on the left with the definitions on the right. Answers: 1c, 2j, 3d, 4f, 5h, 6e, 7a, 8g, 9b, 10i

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Note for teachers:

In these worksheets, you will find lots of useful exercises. However, some of them are necessary to understand the play, whereas others are just extra activities to learn more things related to the topic of the play. It will be specified in each worksheet.

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Track 27Listening of part of the script to learn some of the phrases and phrasal verbs used in the play

WORKSHEET 4 NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE PLAYTRACK 22-MURDER MYSTERY SCRIPT Before you hand out WORKSHEET 4, play track 22 and ask the students the following questions:1- Which characters do you think are talking? Lily and Barty2- How are these characters related to Tilly? Lily is her twin sister and Barty is her boss and lover.3- What are Tilly and Bob planning to do? To run away together and get married.4- Is Barty happy about this? No.

Ask the students to look at the phrasal verbs in the box and see if they can find them in the text. Explain that they are not in their infinitive forms. ANSWERS: See appendix 2When they have found them all, they should look at the definitions and match them with the phrasal verbs. ANSWERS: 1h, 2e, 3c, 4b, 5a, 6d, 7f, 8g

•Getting to know Agatha Christie: The Past Simple.

WORKSHEET 5 EXTRA EXERCISE

Ask students what they know about Agatha Christie. Tell them the play is a murder mystery (hence the title), a detective story, and she is one of the most famous writers of this genre. Students read the text and fill in the gaps with the past simple of the verbs in the box.Answers:1-was 2-read 3-disappear 4-lived 5-married 6- wrote 7-have 8- left 9- found 10- thought 11-saw 12-told 13-continued 14-want 15-hope 16-sold

Note: you can use the text to review the pronunciation of the regular past simple forms.

QuestionnaireWORKSHEET 6

Answer the questions about the show.

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N.B We’ve included a poster which you can fill in and display in your school, library or cultural centre.

Appendix 2

Lily: Look, my name´s not Tilly. It´s Lily. I´m Tilly´s twin sister.Barty: Oh Ho! Twins! Two for the price of one! What luck!Lily: And I´ve dropped in as a lovely surprise for my sister, before she runs away to marry Bob.Barty: Bob? Bob is going to marry Tilly?Lily: Oh, didn´t you know? Oh whoops,. She´s going off this evening to get married to Bob. I wanted to get hold of her before they went. A little family reunion shall we say. I used to go out with Bob, he was my boyfriend, until Tilly took him off me. Ah, it should have been me getting married. I loved Bob, I still do.Barty: Tilly´s running away to marry Bob?I can´t believe it! Tilly and Bob? Bob and Tilly?!! Well, we´ll see aboutthat. Please, excuse me Lily. I have to see about something, or rather someone.Lily: Oh dear!-he looks rather upset. I hope I haven´t messed things up for my darling sister.

LADY WINIFRED

LORD BARTHOLEMEW LADY PENELOPE

TILLY BOB LILY

MURDER MYSTERY

WORKSHEET 1

Murder Mystery is a play set in an English Manor house. These houses were normally owned by upper class families and were passed from generation to generation. To maintain the house and family, there was a large number of domestic workers all doing different jobs.

Female domestic workers were often called maids. Domestic workers performed typical chores such as cooking, ironing, washing and cleaning the house, taking the family dog for a walk and taking care of the children. Maids were often expected to work at least fifteen hours per day. Manor houses were normally set in huge gardens and the family would employ one or more gardeners to maintain the grounds. The gardeners were not normally allowed in the house.

Up until the end or the 20th century there were hundreds of houses like these, where the rich upper class often have the title “Lord” before their name. “Lady” is the female counterpart.

a)Who do you think works in the house?

b)Who do you think has the title “Lord”?

c)Who do you think is the maid?

d)Who do you think is the gardener?

e)Who do you think has the title “Lady”?

f)Who do you think is working class?

g)Who do you think is upper class? 1

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WORKSHEET 2

LOR

D

BA

RTH

OLE

MEW

“BA

RTY”

This

is

Lo

rd

Bart

hole

mew

, ot

herw

ise

know

n as

“B

arty

”. H

e is

the

ric

h Lo

rd

of

the

man

or

hous

e an

d ne

ver

wor

ks. H

e is

mar

ried

to

Lady

Pen

elop

e bu

t he

’s

sick

of

he

r. Ba

rty

is

havi

ng

an

affai

r w

ith

the

mai

d, T

illy.

LAD

Y P

EN

ELO

PE

“PE”

LAD

Y W

INIF

RED

“WIN

NIE

”TIL

LY

Th

is is

Lad

y Pe

nelo

pe,

or “

Pe”.

She

is

Bart

y’s

wife

. Sh

e is

ric

h an

d liv

es a

life

of l

eisu

re. P

e is

alw

ays

boss

ing

Bart

y ab

out.

In

fact

, sh

e bo

sses

eve

ryon

e ab

out,

incl

udin

g Bo

b,

who

m

she

is h

avin

g a

secr

et

affai

r with

.

Lad

y W

inifr

ed is

Lad

y Pe

nelo

pe’s

mot

her

and

Bart

y’s

mot

her

in-

law

. Sh

e is

al

so

rich

and

does

n’t w

ork.

Eve

ryon

e th

inks

she

is a

batt

y ol

d la

dy,

but

in f

act,

she’

s up

to s

omet

hing

.

Tilly

w

orks

in

th

e ho

use,

she

’s t

he m

aid.

Sh

e’s

in l

ove

with

Bob

an

d is

pla

nnin

g to

run

aw

ay w

ith h

im a

nd g

et

mar

ried,

bu

t sh

e is

w

aitin

g fo

r th

e rig

ht

mom

ent.

She

know

s a

secr

et

abou

t La

dy

Win

ifred

…

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BO

B

Bo

b w

orks

in

th

e ho

use,

he

is

th

e ga

rden

er.

He

is g

ood-

lo

okin

g bu

t no

t ve

ry

inte

llige

nt.

He’

s in

love

w

ith

Tilly

an

d is

pl

anni

ng t

o ru

n aw

ay

with

he

r an

d ge

t m

arrie

d. H

e’s

havi

ng a

n aff

air

with

La

dy

Pene

lope

.

LILY

Fi

nally

, thi

s is

Lily

: she

is

Till

y’s

twin

sis

ter.

She

does

n’t

live

or w

ork

in

the

hous

e;

she

has

com

e to

vis

it Ti

lly. T

hey

have

n’t

seen

ea

ch

othe

r fo

r ye

ars.

Bob

is

Lily

’s e

x-bo

yfrie

nd.

Lily

is

an

gry

that

Bo

b is

no

w in

love

with

Till

y.

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1.CON ARTIST

2.TO BE SICK OF SOMEONE

3.ONE SANDWICH SHORT OF A PICNIC

4.OLD BATTLE-AXE

5. TO HAVE THE MEMORY OF A GOLDFISH

1.TO HAVE AN AFFAIR

2.TO BE UP TO SOMETHING

3.TO BOSS SOMEONE ABOUT

4.BATTY/Not 4 times 25

10. TO PLAY HARD TO GET

11. REVENGE

12.BLACKMAIL

13.INSURANCE MONEY

A. To do something you shouldn´t do.

B. Mad.

C. Someone who tricks someone by first gaining their confidence.

D. Stupid.

E. To have a romantic relationship outside of your marriage.

F. Bossy old woman.

G. To be domineering and demanding.

H. To be unable to remember anything.

I. To pretend that you are less interested in someone than you really are as a way of making them more interested in you.

J. To be tired of someone.

K. To try to obtain money by intimidation.

L. Money you get from the legal act of protecting your property or life against specified contingencies.

M. Something done as a means of vengeance.

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LILY: Look , my name’s not Tilly. It’s Lily. I’m Tilly’s twin sister.

BARTY: Oh ho! Twins! Two for the price of one! What luck!

LILY: And I’ve dropped in as a lovely surprise for my sister, before she runs away to

marry Bob.

BARTY: Bob? Bob is going to marry Tilly?

LILY: Oh, didn’t you know? Oh woops. She’s going off this evening to get married to Bob. I wanted to get hold of her before they went. A little family reunion shall we say. I used to go out with Bob, he was my boyfriend, until Tilly took him off me. Ah, it should have been me getting married. I loved him, I still do.

BARTY: Tilly’s running away to marry Bob? I can’t believe it! Tilly and Bob? Bob and Tilly?!! Well, we’ll see about that. Please excuse me Lily, I have to see about

something, or rather someone.

LILY: Oh dear, she looks rather upset. I hope I haven’t messed things up for my darling sister.

1) TO GO OFF

2) TO GO OUT WITH SOMEONE

3) TO SEE ABOUT

4) TO RUN AWAY

5) TO DROP IN

6) TO TAKE OFF

7) TO GET HOLD OF SOMEONE

8) TO MESS UP

A) TO VISIT SOMEONE UNEXPECTEDLY

B) TO ESCAPE

C) TO ARRANGE OR CONSIDER SOMETHING

D) TO STEAL SOMEONE´S BOYFRIEND OR GIRLFRIEND

E) TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE

F) TO TALK TO SOMEONE

G) TO CREATE A STATE OF CONFUSION OR TROUBLE

H) TO LEAVE WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE

TRACK 27 – MURDER MYSTERY SCRIPT

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MURDER MYSTERY WORKSHEET 5

Read the text and fill in the gaps with the PAST SIMPLE of the following verbs:

Agatha Christie ____(1)the most successful writer of detective stories of all time. People all over the world ______(2) her stories of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. But when she died in 1976 there was a final mystery: why did she _______(3) for eleven days in December 1926?Agatha Christie was born in September 1890. She______(4) with her family in Devon, England. In 1914 she ______(5) Colonel Archibald Christie. She _______(6) her first detective story in 1920 and soon she was very successful. But Agatha Christie didn´t ______(7) a happy marriage. On a cold night in December 1926 she ________(8) home in her car. The following morning, the police ________(9) the empty car but there was no sign of Agatha Christie. Two days later, they told the newspapers that they didn´t know where she was. Everyone ________(10) she was dead. But 250 miles away in Yorkshire, a waiter in a hotel ________(11) a guest who looked like Agatha Christie and he _______ (12) the police. Eleven days after her disappearance, her husband found her again in the hotel dining room.The couple were soon divorced. She married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist, in 1930 and she _______(13) to write her mysteries. But she didn´t explain what happened in 1926. Did she ________(14) to kill herself? Did she want to show her husband that she didn´t love him? Did she _______(15) to sell more books?Over the years, Agatha Christie wrote more than 80 mysteries and _____(16) over 300 million books. But she never told anyone why she disappeared in December 1926.

READ

MARRY

FIND

SEE

CONTINUE

DISAPPEAR

WANT

BE

THINK

LEAVE

LIVE

TELL

WRITE

SELL

HOPE

HAVE

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POST SHOW QUESTIONNAIRE

What did you like best about the show?

What didn’t you like about the show?

What did Lady Winifred steal during the show?

What did Bob lose and Lady Penelope hide?

Who was the murderer? Can you explain what happened?

a)Lily d) Bartyb)Bob e) Lady Pec)Tilly f) Lady Winifred

Give a number from 1-10 to show how much you enjoyed the show.(1= I didn’t like the show, 10= I loved the show)

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