The Time Traveller's Laboratory
An escape room designed for B2 learners to practise the future perfect tense through varied puzzle types. Students solve riddles, ciphers, matching tasks, and sentence-ordering challenges to collect five letters spelling the master code.
A free Escape Room for Teens at CEFR B2 level. Topic: Future perfect.
You have entered the laboratory of a mysterious scientist who studies the future perfect tense. She has locked you inside and left five puzzles scattered around the room. Each puzzle, when solved, reveals one letter of the master code that will unlock the door. You must understand how English…
Solve all five puzzles about the future perfect tense to gather the five letters of the master code and unlock the laboratory door.
Puzzles
- 🔮 The Scientist's Statement: The scientist left a note on her desk. Read it carefully and choose the sentence that uses the future perfect tense correctly. A) By next year, I will study the future perfect tense. B) By next year, I will have studied the future perfect tense. C) By next year, I have…
- 🧩 The Riddle of Time: I describe an action that will finish before another future moment arrives. I use 'will have' and a past participle. By the time you read this sentence, you will have solved half the puzzles. What tense am I?
- ⚗️ Match the Sentences: Match each sentence on the left with the correct meaning on the right.
- 🔐 The Encrypted Message: The scientist has hidden a future perfect verb in a number cipher. Decode it using A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on. The number sequence is: 23-9-12-12-8-1-22-5
- 🎯 Arrange the Words: they by the next finished experiment will month have
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 Scientist's Statement The scientist left a note on her desk. Read it carefully and choose the sentence that uses the future perfect tense correctly. A) By next year, I will study the future perfect tense. B) By next year, I will have studied the future perfect tense. C) By next year, I have…
- 🧩 The Riddle of Time I describe an action that will finish before another future moment arrives. I use 'will have' and a past participle. By the time you read this sentence, you will have solved half the puzzles. What tense am I?
- ⚗️ Match the Sentences Match each sentence on the left with the correct meaning on the right. By 2030, she will have completed her research. Before you finish this puzzle, you will have learned three new grammar rules. By the time he arrives, we will have prepared everything. They will have left…