Past Perfect & Past Perfect Continuous Battleships
Practice past perfect and past perfect continuous tenses by combining subjects with time expressions to create meaningful sentences about completed and ongoing actions in the past.
A free Battleships Game for Adults at CEFR B2 level. Topic: past perfect past perfect continuous.
Grammar focus: past perfect past perfect continuous
Grid rows
- Sarah
- The students
- My colleague
- The researchers
- Maria
- The volunteers
Grid columns
- by midnight
- before the meeting
- for three hours
- since morning
- by then
- all week
Vocabulary
- finished
- studying
- prepared
- everything
- working
- waiting
- already
- left
- traveling
- completed
- assignment
- gathered
- outside
- discussing
- protesting
- submitted
- papers
- preparing
- reviewed
- reports
- arrived
- early
- analyzing
- data
- investigating
- decision
- collaborating
- published
- findings
- equipment
- conducting
- experiments
- collecting
- samples
- discovered
- documenting
- painted
- portraits
- organized
- materials
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.