The Grammar Detective's Mystery
Students help a detective solve a school mystery by fixing jumbled sentences and practicing English word order.
A free Escape Room for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: word order.
Detective Smith needs your help to solve a mystery at the school library. Someone mixed up all the sentence cards for tomorrow's English class. The words are all jumbled and the teacher is very worried. Can you help put everything back in the right order?
Help Detective Smith fix the jumbled sentences by practicing correct word order in English
Puzzles
- 🔍 Detective's First Clue: Detective Smith found this note: 'The cat sits on the chair.' Which word tells us WHO does the action?
- 📚 Library Rules Check: Read about the library rules and decide if each statement is true or false:
- 🔤 Scrambled Evidence: Detective Smith found scrambled letters on the floor. Unscramble this word: GNMIRNO
- 📝 Missing Words Mystery: Complete this sentence about what happened: 'Yesterday, Tom _____ his homework at home and _____ it to school today.'
- 🎯 Word Order Pairs: Match each scrambled sentence with its correct order:
- 🧩 Sentence Puzzle: plays every soccer day. Tom
- 🔐 Secret Code Message: Detective Smith left a secret message using numbers. Each number represents a letter (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.). Decode this word:
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
- Escape on paper · Open every lock. Write each answer.
Part 1: Escape on paper
Open every lock. Write each answer.
- 🔍 Detective's First Clue Detective Smith found this note: 'The cat sits on the chair.' Which word tells us WHO does the action? a) the b) cat c) chair d) sits
- 📚 Library Rules Check Read about the library rules and decide if each statement is true or false: The school library opens at 8 AM every day. Students must be quiet inside. They can borrow three books for two weeks. The librarian helps students find books. The library opens at 9 AM T / F Students…
- 🔤 Scrambled Evidence Detective Smith found scrambled letters on the floor. Unscramble this word: GNMIRNO O N N M I R G