Activities
The maze of terror!
‘Modal verbs of deduction in the past and present
(Card1
ou oe on hotiday in the southern statet ofthe USA You're
{| faving though avery emote aea late ot ght, and are
|] completely lst You're ooking for somewhere to stay, but
|| nove only sen one note, which wes locked ip. (WHY)
|] Yeu have $100 in enh, ond ar red and bungry. Finally
you come toa jundion in the middle of nowhere.
_] peso:
+ tum et? (Cara 2)
+ tum right? (Card 3)
Card 2
Five miles further on you see a big hotel on your left. I's
‘pent You stop and go inside, but the receptionist tells you
the hotel is fully booked. A coachload of tourists have
reserved all the rooms. However, i's very late and they stil
haven't arrived, (WHY NOT?)
Do you:
+ go back tothe junction and turn right? (Card 3)
+ continue clong the road? (Card 4)
+ try to bribe the receptionist to give you a room? (Card $)
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You leave your bags in the room and go tothe restaurant ~
you're very hungry! There are no other quest in the
restaurant. (WHY NOT?) You erder some food. and the
waiter offers you free wine wich your meal. Tze atmosphere
ln the empty restaurant is making you feel a litle nervous,
Do you:
+ salt for your meal to arsve? (Card 8)
+ go back to your room withost eating? (Card 9)
Card 7
You dive fer a while ond coms to a nice looking motel
Sitting at reception is @ man wearing an old-fashioned
army uniform. (WHY?) There are lots of candies
everywhere, and none ofthe lights are on. (WHY NOT?)
He tells you there's only one room free ~Itcoss $40,
Do you
* take the room? (Card 12)
* continue driving? (Card 13)
(Cara 3
Yeu drive for ten minutes, then see an old hotel down a
arrow turning, There are c lot of cars in the car park, but
you can't see any lights on in the bedrooms. (WHY NOT?)
The receptionist offers you a room for $50.
Do you
+ take the room? (Card 6)
|| + get back in the car and continue driving? (Card 7)
Card 8
Your meal arrives, clong with two large glasses of red wine
You start eating, but the meat you ordered tases tebe.
(WHY?) Also, the wine doesn zat like any vine you've
ver tasted
Do you
+ Teave the food and go up to sour room? (Card 9)
+ complain tothe waiter? (Card 10)
‘(Cara a
‘You dive abit further, but come toa sign Inthe mide of
the rod tht says Road closed ~ extreme danger! WHY?)
1] De your
+ goback to the uncon and turn right? (Card 3)
|| + go back to the hotel and try to bribe the receptionist to
give you a room? (Card 5)
Card 9
‘You are now back in your room. You get undresed and try
to go to sleep. However, in the next room you kear a
woman scream, then a loud noise. (WHAT'S
HAPPENED?)
Do you:
| + go ard see what's going on next door? (Card 13)
+ get back in your ear and drive away? (Card 7)
Card 5
The receptionist takes your bribe, and aives you the key to
room 101. When you unlock the door, you see that the
room is fll of boxes of cigarettes ~ thousands of them!
(WHY?) You go back tothe receptionist to complain, but he
pulls out a gun and tells you to get cut
Do you: 5
*+ go back tothe junction and turn right? (Cara 3)
* get back in the car and continue along the road?
(Cara 4)
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‘abag of toes under the table! WHAT'S BEEN
HAPPENING?) You run out of the building. cased by the
chef waving ¢ large knife! You get in your car and drive
nay.
Do you
+ 90 back to the junction and turn left? Card 2)
+ continue drving clong the oad you'r on? :Card 7)
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(Cara 11
You go into the room next door and se a woman lying on
the ed Sheen moving, Theresa man standing next to
her wearing otal white not. WHO 1S HE? WHAT'S
HAPPENED? You tim ond nun out of he bulding,
chased bythe maou gta your car Just n te
Dayo
+ 90 back othe jurcon end tur let? (Car 2)
+ tentinue driving along the road you on? (Cand 7)
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Card 16
Sally pulls outa gun and tes ¥2u to get in your car~ now!
This time you don’t argue! You éive for half an hour, then
she tells you to stop. She gives zou @ thousand dollars, then
suns off (WHERE DID SHE GET THE MONEY FROM?)
By now you're extremely tied
Do you
+ go back to the motel? (Card 18)
+ continue driving? (Card 13)
+ goto sleep in the car? (Card 19)
You continue diving, and se an old man siting atthe
Side ofthe road. You oe out ofthe car to ask fhe knows a
hotel neotby. His clothes ar tom and his head is bleeding
He looks very fightened. WHY?)
Do you .
+ try and help im? (Cara 20)
+ get back in the ea and leave? (Card 22)
Card 14
You open the door and let her In, She tells you her name is
Sally, and her boyfriend is looking for her. fhe finds her,
he's going to kill her! (WHY?) She wants you to drive her
‘away from the motel immediately.
Do you:
+ teller to go away? (Card 16)
«+ help herby driving her away from the motel? (Card 17)
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Card 12 Card 17
You go tnt the oom. light the candles and look around. || You get in the cor ond dv of wth aly nthe backseat
“The rom seem very ean ond comfortable, You are jst || You coming criving for hat e= hour then se sls you to
about to go to bed when a woman starts banging ioudly || stop the cor She gies you a thcusand delay, then ins
fn your door and eskng you to belp her, WHY?) off (WHERE DID SHE GET THE MONEY FROM? by
1 you row youre extremely tre
+ open the door? (Card 14 Do your
+ pretend you cant nese her and hope she goes away? + go back the mate? (Card 18)
{ard 13) + continue driving? Card 13
4 goto sep inte ar? (Card 39,
Card 13 (Card 18
| You go Dock to the mot, bute door t your rom is
} locked from the inside. (WHY? ou can‘ find the man in
the army uniform anywhere. WHERE HAS HE GONE?)
Do you:
+ continue diving? (Card 13)
* go to sleep inthe car? (Card 19)
Card 19
You goto sleep in the co, but ssn @ loud noise and a
‘right light wake you up. Whes he light disappears there
{san old man standing infront f your ca, looking
confused and frightened. (WHAT'S HAPPENED TO
HIM) He knocks on your winé=w
Do you:
+ ty to help him? (Card 20)
+ drive off immediately? (Card 13)
Card 15
She kicks down your door and comes in anyway! She tells
you her name is Sally, and her boyflend is looking for her.
Ife finds her, he's going to kil her! (WHY?) She wants
you to deve her away from the motel immediately!
Do you:
+ tell her to go away? (Card 16)
+ help her by driving her away from the motel? (Card 17)
Card 20
‘The old mon soys he's been on an alien spaceship for three
days. (WHAT DO YOU THINK?) He also says he lives in
the next town, and ifyou give kim a lift you can stay the
night im his house.
Do you:
“+ give him a lif? (Cara 21)
«+ leave him there and drive of? (Card 22)
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Card 21
‘You drive aff wth the man nthe back seat. He says he
‘used to work forthe government, but he can't tell you what
he did. (WHY NOT?) When you get to the next town he
Invites you to stay in his house. He says there are no hotels
In the town.
Do yous
+ accept his offer and stay with him? (Card 23)
+ Took around the town yoursel? (Card 24)
2S,
Card 26
‘You go into your room its beautiful! You are jst about
10.90 to bed when you open a cupboard to get an extra
pillow. Inside is @ man ~ and be's dead! (WHEN DID HE
DIE?)
Do you
+ close the cupboard and goto sleep? (Card 28)
+ leave the hotel quiely and get back in your car?
(Card 27)
(Card 22
Before you can leave he collapses, so you carry him to your
car He says he used to work for the government, But he
can't tell you what he dé, WHY NOT?) When you arrive
‘at the town he invites you to stay in bis house. He says
there are no hotels in the town.
De you:
|| + accept his ofer ond stay with him? (Card 23)
+ lock around the town yoursel? (Card 24)
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(Cara 27
|| Sat otf elon ds onl man ng
atthe deo the road. He loks very dy and unt, and
| SSstnding nett wo lage suteass, HOW LONG HAS
HE BEEN TRAVELLING?)
Do you
+ ive him @ lft? (Card 29)
+ keep driving? (Card 30)
Card 23
You drive up to his house, and you have to lim in
through the window. (WHY?) You're extremely tired, so he |
shows you to your bedroom. You getlost and openthe |
‘wrong door. The room Is full of guns and other weapons!
way)
Do your
+ drive away from the house immediately? (Card 24)
+ go back to your room and go to sleep (Card 25)
| aw go back through the cards and disauss with your
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Card 24
‘You deve round the town and discover that there is « hotel
The receptionist is wearing a Mickey Mouse costume!
(WHY?) The hote! looks very luxurious, but the rooms only
cost $70,
Do you:
+ stay in the hotel? (Cara 26)
+ continue deiving? (Card 27)
Card 29
You give the eld man a lf to his house ~ and its the
biggest house you've ever seen! The old man tells you he's