Time Detectives: How Long Does It Take?
Students say when activities start and finish and how long they take. They join a subject, a time phrase and an everyday time expression to make full sentences.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Time and duration .
Grammar focus: How long does it take? / It takes 25 minutes. / What time does it finish?
Grid rows
- The bus ride
- My piano lesson
- Our football practice
- The swimming class
- The film club
- My walk to the park
Grid columns
- on Mondays
- after school
- at weekends
- in the morning
- on rainy days
- in the summer
Vocabulary
- start time
- finish time
- duration
- minutes
- later
- takes
- starts
- finishes
- hour
- half an hour
- o'clock
- longer
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: how long does it take? / it takes 25 minutes. / what time does it finish? · 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.