Feeling Sick? Should or Shouldn't!
Students find hidden ships by building sentences that give health advice with should and shouldn't. Each row names an illness with have got, and each cell gives the advice.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Should / Shouldn't, Illnesses.
Grammar focus: Should / Shouldn't, Illnesses
Grid rows
- I have got a headache
- Tom has got a fever
- We have got a cold
- Mia has got a cough and a sore throat, so she
- You have got a toothache
- My brother has got a stomachache
Grid columns
- should/shouldn't
- should/shouldn't
- should/shouldn't
- should/shouldn't
- should/shouldn't
- should/shouldn't
Vocabulary
- headache
- fever
- cold
- cough
- toothache
- stomachache
- earache
- sore throat
- a sore throat
- have got
- a toothache
- an earache
- a stomachache
- a cold
- a fever
- a cough
- should
- shouldn't
- medicine
- rest
- doctor
- dentist
Printable worksheet
This Battleships Game comes with a free printable worksheet: 2 parts for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Core sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Play Battleships on paper · Draw 3 ships on your grid: one of 3 squares and two of 2 squares. Don't show your partner. To fire, say a full sentence. Your partner says hit or miss.
- Practise: should / shouldn't, illnesses · Write the verb in the right form.
Part 1: Play Battleships on paper
Draw 3 ships on your grid: one of 3 squares and two of 2 squares. Don't show your partner. To fire, say a full sentence. Your partner says hit or miss.