Martin Luther King Jr. –Jigsaw Activity (Listening & Speaking – B1) Civil Rights

This Jigsaw (puzzle) activity allows students to build knowledge collaboratively while improving their listening, speaking and mediation skills.

🎯 What is this activity?

This lesson is based on the Jigsaw method, where students become “experts” on one part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and then teach their peers.

👉 Students explore:

• His early life
• His role in the Civil Rights Movement
• His relationship with Rosa Parks
• His life as a fighter
• His famous speech “I Have a Dream”
• 
  

📦 What’s included?

✔ Structured lesson plan (step-by-step)

✔ Listening activity with video support (QR code included)

✔ 5 differentiated texts (MLK themes)

✔ Comprehension worksheets (fill in the blanks, MCQs, matching)

✔ Speaking & interaction tasks

✔ Final writing / synthesis sheet

✔ Answer key

👉 For example, page 11 includes listening comprehension tasks about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, with vocabulary and sentence completion activities.