The Boat Race

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

1. Crossword — the sea, ships and the king's games, in Latin from Book 2.
2. Anagrams — unscramble seven things done at the race.
3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
4. Matching — two verbs, vincit ("wins") and nāvigat ("sails"), in the imperfect, perfect and pluperfect.
5. Picture Count — reassemble the shore, then count what you see.
6. Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
7. Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.

Most classes take about 50 minutes. Students can work alone, in pairs or in small teams on any device with a browser, or you can project the room and solve it together as a class. Every answer checks itself, so you are free to circulate, and progress is saved in the browser, so a room can be split across two lessons.