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19 August 2025

zip, 5.8 MB
zip, 5.8 MB

Make your European Day of Languages memorable with this engaging mystery-style activity! Perfect as a cover lesson, team challenge, or cross-curricular activity, it encourages pupils to explore links between languages while solving a fun, interactive puzzle.

Students take on the role of detectives to help a neighbour find his brother who is missing somewhere in Europe. Using his “bucket list” of possible destinations, students complete a series of language-based activities to gather clues, eliminate options, and ultimately uncover the final location.

What’s included:
• Scenario description and bucket list of possible destinations
• 5 engaging activities covering:
o Transport vocabulary in multiple languages
o Interpreting departure boards
o Language families
o Matching countries to their languages
o Odd-one-out quiz to reveal key clues
• Extra activity: word search for early finishers
• Full teacher guide with instructions and answers (ideal for a ready-to-go cover lesson)

Recommended: access to electronic devices to help translate new vocabulary in various languages.

Benefits:
• Fun, interactive, and low-prep
• Encourages research and critical thinking
• Encourages teamwork
• Suitable for KS3/KS4

Bring a sense of adventure into your classroom while celebrating language diversity across Europe!

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TES Resource Team

a year ago
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We are pleased to let you know that your resource European Day of Languages Mystery, has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured in /teaching-resources/blog/european-day-languages-activities in September 2024 on /teaching-resources/blog. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

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