The Grand Hotel Archive: Too Late to Leave?
A hotel-archive escape room in which adult B2 learners practise the form, word order and meaning of too, enough, so, such, such a and such an. The puzzles move from simple choices to analysing and producing structures.
A free Escape Room for Adults at CEFR B2 level. Topic: too / enough / so / such / such a / such an.
You are a group of guests who wandered into the forgotten archive beneath the Grand Hotel, looking for an old photograph of the building. The heavy door slammed shut behind you, and the night manager, who has such a strange sense of humour, has locked it with a nine-letter code. He left notes…
Solve all nine grammar challenges on too, enough, so, such, such a and such an. Collect one letter from each puzzle to reveal the nine-letter code that opens the archive door.
Puzzles
- 🧥 The Cloakroom Price Tag: A guest left a note on a designer jacket in the cloakroom. Choose the word that best completes it: 'This jacket is ___ expensive for me. I simply can't afford it.'
- 📖 The Guestbook Entry: Read the guestbook entry carefully. Decide whether each statement is true or false according to the passage.
- 🧩 The Torn Notes: The manager tore four notes in half. Match each sentence beginning with the ending that is grammatically and logically correct.
- 🔍 The Faulty Postcard: The manager wrote four phrases on a postcard, but one of them contains a grammar mistake. Which phrase is the odd one out because it is incorrect?
- 📝 The Interview Schedule: A crumpled schedule from the hotel's HR office reads: 'There were ___ many applicants for the receptionist job that the interviews lasted a whole week.' Write the one missing word.
- 🏊 The Pool Sign: A sign by the hotel pool asks: 'Is the water warm ___ for swimming?' Unscramble this word to complete the question: ughone
- 👔 The Manager's Complaint: lead experienced He the enough to team. isn't
- 🔐 The Locked Drawer: A drawer in the manager's desk has a coded label. Decode the word, which completes this sentence: 'They are ___ generous people that everyone in the village loves them.' (A=1, B=2, ... Z=26)
- 🗝️ The Manager's Final Riddle: I am a small word, but I carry a heavy message. When I stand before an adjective or adverb, I tell you that something has gone beyond the limit, which often means something is impossible or unwanted. I am frequently followed by 'for someone' and then a to-infinitive,…
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 Challenge sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Escape on paper · Open every lock. Fewer options to choose from this time.
Part 1: Escape on paper
Open every lock. Fewer options to choose from this time.
- 🧥 The Cloakroom Price Tag A guest left a note on a designer jacket in the cloakroom. Choose the word that best completes it: 'This jacket is ___ expensive for me. I simply can't afford it.'
- 📖 The Guestbook Entry Read the guestbook entry carefully. Decide whether each statement is true or false according to the passage. Last winter, Daniel booked a room at the Grand Hotel for his parents' anniversary. He had heard that it was such a beautiful building that guests often took photos in…
- 🧩 The Torn Notes The manager tore four notes in half. Match each sentence beginning with the ending that is grammatically and logically correct. It was such a long film She isn't old enough The box was too heavy They had so much homework that they cancelled their weekend plans. to rent a car in…