The Vault of Vanished Time
A grammar-review escape room for adult B2 learners covering past tenses, directions, houses, ghosts, food, comparatives, superlatives, future plans and adverbs.
A free Escape Room for Adults at CEFR B2 level. Topic: 7A Talking about famous painters and other famous people. Was, were all forms. 7B Talking about travel problems. Simple past tense, regular verbs all forms. Past time expressions. 7C Talking about New Year’s Eve Simple past tense, irregular verbs: buy, come, feel, find, get, go, have, know, put on, say, take, think, wear. PE Giving and asking for directions. 8A A murder story. Simple past tense: regular and irregular verbs, all forms. 8B Describing a house. There is/are all forms. Some/any + plural nouns. 8C Talking about ghosts and haunted places. There was/were. Prepositions of place and movement. 9A Talking about food and drink.. Countable/uncountable nouns. A/an, some/any. 9B Talking about food quantities and containers. Quantifiers: how much/many, a lot of, a little, a few, not much/many, quite a lot. 9C Talking about quiz shows. Comparative adjectives: short, long adjectives and irregular comparatives. PE Going out for dinner. Ordering a meal. 10A Talking about places and buildings. Superlative adjectives: short, long adjectives and irregular superlatives. 10B Making plans and expressing intentions. Going to: all persons and forms. Future time expressions. VOC: City holidays.. 10C Predicting the future (going to). Revise and check units 9 and 10. 11A Talking about cultural differences. Adverbs of manner. Adverbs of degree (modifiers). PE Getting around. Transport..
A mysterious collector of art, ghost stories and travel diaries has locked you inside his study. He left behind nine puzzles about the past, the present and the future of human life. To open the vault and escape before midnight, you must prove you understand how English speakers talk about people,…
Solve all nine puzzles to collect nine letters and form the 9-letter master code that opens the vault.
Puzzles
- 🎨 The Painter's Identity: Choose the correct form: Pablo Picasso ___ a famous Spanish painter who lived in France for many years.
- ✈️ A Difficult Journey: Complete the sentence with the past simple form of the verb in brackets: We ___ (arrive) at the airport two hours early, but our flight was still cancelled.
- 🎉 New Year's Memory: Unscramble this word (an irregular past tense verb often used when talking about New Year's Eve): GHOUTHT
- 🧭 Finding the Way: corner the and Turn walk left at ahead. straight
- 🔪 Clues from the Crime Scene: Match each past tense verb from the murder story to its correct base form meaning.
- 👻 The Haunted Manor: Read the passage and decide if each statement is true or false.
- 🍞 What Doesn't Belong?: Three of these words are uncountable nouns commonly used with 'much' or 'a little'. One is countable. Which one is different?
- 🏙️ The Highest Point in the City: Decode this superlative adjective often used when describing buildings: 20-1-12-12-5-19-20
- 🔮 A Word About Tomorrow: I am not a person, but I describe how something happens. Many of my forms end in '-ly', though some, like 'well' and 'fast', break that pattern. When people predict how life will change in the future, they often use me to say things will happen 'quickly', 'carefully' or…
Printable worksheet
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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 Painter's Identity Choose the correct form: Pablo Picasso ___ a famous Spanish painter who lived in France for many years.
- ✈️ A Difficult Journey Complete the sentence with the past simple form of the verb in brackets: We ___ (arrive) at the airport two hours early, but our flight was still cancelled.
- 🎉 New Year's Memory Unscramble this word (an irregular past tense verb often used when talking about New Year's Eve): GHOUTHT T T O H G H U