Past Perfect Continuous Battleships: What Had Been Happening?
Students sink ships by building past perfect continuous sentences from a subject, a verb phrase and a time or place phrase. Every sentence shows an action that had been going on up to a point in the past.
A free Battleships Game for Teens at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Past Perfect.
Grammar focus: Past Perfect, Past Perfect Continuous
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- The students
- Our coach
- My little brother
- We
Grid columns
- for two hours
- all morning
- since breakfast
- for three weeks
- before lunch
- at the park
Vocabulary
- wait
- bus
- clean
- room
- play
- video games
- save
- money
- study
- hard
- read
- book
- chat
- online
- practise
- guitar
- text
- learn
- Spanish
- look for
- phone
- ride
- bike
- write
- essay
- science
- project
- sit
- class
- prepare
- school play
- revise
- exam
- pick up
- rubbish
- shout
- instructions
- plan
- match
- check
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.