Whodunnit? The murder at Muchley Manor

Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Simon Smith
Whodunnit? The murder at Muchley Manor
Main Subject
Key stage
Category
Grammar, spelling and vocabulary: Developing vocabulary
Resource type
Game/quiz
Student activity
Teaching ideas

A fun 'Whodunnit' mystery for students to solve! Students work in teams in order to solve the crime and find the murderer, testing their skills with a range of core English and SPaG tasks.

Groups work their way through the Muchley Manor PowerPoint task to complete the following activities:

  • a word unscrambling or anagram task to identify hidden words inside FORENSIC INVESTIGATION
  • a homophone task for there/they're/their
  • a note-taking task for the characters
  • an punctuation activity to correct the use of capital letters
  • a code-cracking activity using hieroglyphics
  • an activity to identify simple adjectives
  • a riddle-deciphering task
  • a task asking students to sequence instructions
  • an activity to identify the true and false grammatical rules.

Finally, students list the words they have found to make their accusation and reveal the murderer!

Fantastic as a one-off lesson or end-of-term treat. Recommended!

An example task from the lesson PowerPoint: 

How many words of three letters or more can you make from the letters in the word …

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You can use each letter only once unless it appears more than once. You have three minutes!

All reviews

Have you used this resource?

5
I love this resource, but lost the PPT when a memory stick was corrupted. DEVASTATED to see it not available. Think that having the worksheets and not the accompanying PowerPoint is a cruel and unusual punishment!

Julia Sherwood

12/07/2023

Looking forward to using this in my Functional Skills and GCSE lessons. I like the idea of it being a great introduction to An Inspector Calls.

Linda Ashley

30/06/2021

5

30/06/2021

Could the PPT slides please be made into a pdf

Kate Hounsell

28/06/2021

5
I love this resource, but lost the PPT when a memory stick was corrupted. DEVASTATED to see it not available. Think that having the worksheets and not the accompanying PowerPoint is a cruel and unusual punishment!

Julia Sherwood

12/07/2023

Looking forward to using this in my Functional Skills and GCSE lessons. I like the idea of it being a great introduction to An Inspector Calls.

Linda Ashley

30/06/2021

5

30/06/2021

Could the PPT slides please be made into a pdf

Kate Hounsell

28/06/2021

5

07/06/2021

5

06/05/2021

5

04/05/2021

5

16/04/2021

I can't use it as I'm not a paid member.

Janet Edmonds-Walker

06/04/2021

5

18/02/2021