Jigsaw puzzle

http://www.visual-idioms.com/

To make a speaking activity more exciting, you can turn it into a game activity. If you go to http://www.jigsawplanet.com/ you can upload a photo/picture and which then scrambles into jigsaw pieces. You’re able to select how many pieces you would like for the puzzle. The puzzle then displays on the screen and you can use your mouse to put it together. The students can prepare jigsaw puzzles for each other from the images in this blog. They work in pairs and try to guess the idiom while putting the pieces together. Encourage the students to keep talking all along the line - also get them to think aloud. Thus they'll spontaneously practise very useful language (giving instructions, prepositions of place, etc.)