Escape the Grammar Lab

A 9-puzzle escape room for A2 teen learners practicing past simple, present perfect, present simple, and present continuous with irregular verbs.

A free Escape Room for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Past simple present perfect present simple present continues.

A mad scientist has locked the ESL classroom with a time-travel machine stuck between past, present, and future. To fix it, students must solve puzzles about irregular verbs and verb tenses. Each correct answer gives one letter of the secret code. Find all nine letters to unlock the machine and…

Solve all 9 puzzles about past simple, present perfect, present simple, and present continuous to collect letters and unlock the 9-letter master code.

Puzzles

  1. 🚌 Verb Go: Choose the correct sentence. Every day, Tom ___ to school by bus.
  2. 🍽️ The Hungry Riddle: I am the past participle of 'eat'. I have 5 letters. Yesterday, after lunch, Mum said, 'You have already ___ all the cake!' What word am I?
  3. 🔐 Secret Verb Code: Decode the past simple form of 'see'. A=1, B=2, C=3 ... Z=26.
  4. 🔗 Match the Irregular Verbs: Match each base verb with its correct past simple form.
  5. 📝 Present Perfect Practice: Fill in the blank: She ___ (take) many photos this week.
  6. 🔤 Unscramble the Verb: Unscramble this word: TUGHOB
  7. 🥤 Odd One Out: Three of these words are past simple forms. One is not. Find it.
  8. 🗣️ Build the Sentence: spoken teacher has twice. He to the
  9. 📖 Weekend Story: Read the passage and decide if each statement is true or false.

Printable worksheet

This Escape Room comes with a free printable worksheet: 1 part for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Core sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.

What's on the worksheet

  1. Escape on paper · Open every lock. Write each answer.

Part 1: Escape on paper

Open every lock. Write each answer.

  1. 🚌 Verb Go Choose the correct sentence. Every day, Tom ___ to school by bus. a) go b) went c) goes d) gone
  2. 🍽️ The Hungry Riddle I am the past participle of 'eat'. I have 5 letters. Yesterday, after lunch, Mum said, 'You have already ___ all the cake!' What word am I?
  3. 🔐 Secret Verb Code Decode the past simple form of 'see'. A=1, B=2, C=3 ... Z=26. 19-1-23 A1 B2 C3 D4 E5 F6 G7 H8 I9 J10 K11 L12 M13 N14 O15 P16 Q17 R18 S19 T20 U21 V22 W23 X24 Y25 Z26

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