Past Simple Adventures: What Did They Do?
Students combine a subject, a past simple verb phrase and a past time expression to make sentences about weekends, holidays, parties and school days. Each sunk ship shows that students can use regular and irregular past forms.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Past simple tense.
Grammar focus: Past simple tense
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- Our teacher
- We
- My grandparents
- The children
Grid columns
- last weekend
- yesterday afternoon
- on holiday
- after school
- at the party
- two days ago
Vocabulary
- visit
- zoo
- play
- football
- swim
- sea
- do
- homework
- eat
- cake
- lose
- pencil case
- ride
- bike
- call
- buy
- hat
- watch
- film
- sing
- song
- break
- arm
- go
- mountains
- mark
- test
- take
- photo
- clean
- classroom
- tell
- story
- give
- quiz
- have
- picnic
- fly
- kite
- stay
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.