Lupin Escape Room – KS3 French

A KS3 French escape room worksheet investigating Arsène Lupin’s latest mischief. Students follow a series of clues to decode the final location of the stolen gold key, combining vocabulary, grammar and problem-solving in a structured and engaging way.

What’s included

• A multi-task worksheet with 9 clues covering key KS3 language
 ○ A reading task practising directions
 ○ A calculation to revise numbers
 ○ A gap-fill text targeting the partitive article with food vocab
 ○ A conjugation task with avoir in the present tense
 ○ A rhyming riddle to challenge students
 ○ A puzzle activity with family vocab
 ○ A tangled translation task
 ○ A mysterious telegram from Lupin, hiding an acrostic for students to spot
 ○ A final cipher activity

• A set of deciphering cards to guide students through extracting and organising answers once they have completed the worksheet
• Intro and reveal slides to introduce the story and finish the activity with a clear resolution (non-editable slides for design reasons)
• All answers provided
• Worksheet and cards available in PDF and editable PPTX, in colour and black-and-white versions

Designed primarily for Years 8 and 9, this works well as a mystery puzzle or escape-room style lesson, combining revision, clue-solving and Lupin’s wit in a low-prep format.

I hope you and your students enjoy it!

You might also be interested in these other escape rooms in my shop:

• Tenses at the Orsay Museum – KS3-GCSE French Grammar Escape Room
• Prepositions in Paris – KS3-GCSE French Grammar Escape Room
• Jeu d’accès – GCSE taster lesson – KS3 French worksheet & game
• Lupin Escape Room – French GCSE
• Catacombs Escape Room – French GCSE

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