Interrupted! Past Simple Meets Past Continuous
Students build sentences where a Past Simple 'when' clause interrupts an action in progress in the Past Continuous. Each sentence ends with a place, so learners practise the full structure every turn.
A free Battleships Game for Teens at CEFR B1 level. Topic: PAst Simple.
Grammar focus: PAst Simple, Past Continuous, PAst Perfect
Grid rows
- When the phone rang, I
- When it started to rain, my sister
- When Mum called, my brother
- When I saw them, Tom and Ella
- When someone shouted, we
- When I arrived, my best friend
Grid columns
- in the kitchen
- at the park
- in the living room
- at the bus stop
- in the garden
- at the shopping centre
Vocabulary
- phone
- rang
- rain
- call
- saw
- shout
- arrive
- make
- sandwich
- walk
- dog
- watch
- film
- wait
- bus
- bus stop
- water
- plants
- look for
- trainers
- bake
- cake
- tennis
- homework
- magazine
- hang out
- washing
- birthday present
- wash
- dishes
- football
- video games
- talk
- fix
- bike
- try on
- jacket
- cook
- pasta
- picnic
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 Challenge 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.
- Build the sentence · Use the words to write a full sentence.
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.