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The Grammaticus

A Back to School Latin escape room for Latin IV

Works with: Cambridge Latin Course, Book 4, Stages 35–40

In a portico in Domitian's Rome, a teacher of literature reads Vergil aloud to his pupils, who must learn the opening of the Aeneid by heart. Solve seven puzzles to finish the lesson.

Play the free taster (2 of 7 locks)Members: full room

The taster runs in the browser, with nothing to install. Members share a private class link that opens all seven locks. Sound adds to the atmosphere.

What's inside

  • 7 self-grading locks, all in Latin
  • Vocabulary from Cambridge Latin Course Books 1–4 (to Stage 40)
  • Grammar: present, perfect and future infinitives, active and passive
  • Macrons never needed
  • Takes about one lesson
Illustration from the picture-count lock of The Grammaticus

For teachers

Each of the seven locks practises something different:

  1. Crossword — the school, books and poetry, in Latin from Book 4.
  2. Anagrams — unscramble seven things done in a lesson.
  3. Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
  4. Matching — two verbs, legō ("read") and audiō ("hear"), as infinitives: present, perfect and future, active and passive.
  5. Picture Count — reassemble the portico, 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.

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