Museum Mystery: Past Simple Question Battleships
Students ask past simple questions about a school trip to a dinosaur museum with a robot guide. They join a question starter, a verb phrase and a time expression to make each question.
A free Battleships Game for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Past simple : Irregular verbs with questions.
Grammar focus: Past simple : Irregular verbs with questions
Grid rows
- Where did you
- What did you
- Who did you
- Did you
- Did your brother
- Did the robot
Grid columns
- on Saturday
- on the school trip
- last weekend
- yesterday afternoon
- at lunchtime
- after the tour
Vocabulary
- Where did you go on ...?
- What did you see?
- What did you eat?
- Who did you ...?
- dinosaur
- museum
- model
- skeleton
- scary
- scream
- roar
- alive
- dead
- robot
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: past simple : irregular verbs with questions · 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.