Missed Chances: Third Conditional Battleships
Players imagine how past situations could have turned out differently. Each shot builds a full third conditional sentence about an unreal past.
A free Battleships Game for Adults at CEFR B2 level. Topic: if type 3.
Grammar focus: if type 3
Grid rows
- If I had had more time, I
- If she had known about it, she
- If we had left earlier, we
- If they had asked for help, they
- If my brother hadn't been ill, he
- If the weather had been better, our team
Grid columns
- last weekend
- last summer
- yesterday evening
- at the party
- in the city centre
- on Friday night
Vocabulary
- visit
- grandparents
- learn
- sail
- cook
- proper meal
- stay
- longer
- shopping
- watch
- whole film
- join
- protest
- apply for
- internship
- phone
- landlord
- bring
- present
- avoid
- roadworks
- warn
- neighbours
- reach
- coast
- before dark
- catch
- ferry
- find
- seats
- meet
- guest speaker
- parking space
- miss
- traffic jam
- finish
- project
- save
- small business
- fix
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.