Review la nourriture with a French food escape room your students can complete individually or in teams! This no-prep digital vocabulary game takes approximately 45 minutes and challenges students to solve food, menu, recipe, budgeting, sorting, and video-based clues. A complete teacher guide and answer key are included.

LA RECETTE PERDUE

Your family’s treasured recipe has been locked away, and Grandma cannot remember the codes. Fortunately, she left a series of clues.

Can your students solve the puzzles, unlock the locks, recover the recipe, and keep the family’s dream of opening a restaurant alive?

SKILLS AND TOPICS

Students will:

• Review French food vocabulary

• Plan and budget for a meal

• Read and interpret a restaurant menu

• Unscramble recipe vocabulary

• Watch a cooking video about a French dessert

• Sort foods into categories

• Read clues carefully

• Apply problem-solving and attention-to-detail skills

• Collaborate in teams or work independently

WHAT’S INCLUDED

• Access to the digital escape game

• 13 Genially slides

• Seven pages of teacher instructions

• Complete teacher guide

• Answer key

• Guidance for helping students with difficult clues

• Options for shortening or adapting the challenge

EASY CLASSROOM SETUP

Share the game link with students and let them begin the challenge. Students can play individually or work in teams.

You can also adjust the activity for your available time or student level. Give hints when students need support, provide selected lock answers, or reduce the number of locks students must complete.

TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS

This is an online activity that uses external websites. Students need reliable internet access and compatible devices.

Before class, test every link on the same network and type of device your students will use. Your district must allow access to Genially, YouTube, JigsawPlanet, and any other current image or puzzle-hosting sites used by the game.

Please review the preview and test the provided links before purchasing or assigning the activity. School filters and district restrictions may prevent some external content from loading.

LANGUAGE AND DIFFICULTY

This resource focuses on French food vocabulary, careful reading, and problem-solving. Some clues can be challenging, so the teacher guide and answer key allow you to offer hints or adjust the number of locks.

Before publishing this description, specify which directions, background information, videos, and student-facing clues are in French and which are in English. This will help buyers determine whether the language balance fits their class.

PERFECT FOR

• French food and restaurant units

• La nourriture vocabulary review

• Beginning-of-unit engagement

• End-of-unit review

• Individual digital practice

• Team challenges

• A 45-minute class period

• Low-prep lesson plans

• An engaging alternative to a traditional vocabulary worksheet