Past Simple Battleships: What Did They Do?
Young learners build simple past simple sentences about yesterday, last night and last weekend. They combine a person, a past verb phrase and a time or place to find the hidden ships.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR A1 level. Topic: Past simple.
Grammar focus: Past simple
Grid rows
- I
- My sister
- Tom
- We
- My friends
- Our dog
Grid columns
- yesterday morning
- last night
- last Saturday
- after school
- in the park
- at home
Vocabulary
- ate
- eggs
- watched
- TV
- visited
- grandma
- played
- football
- rode
- bike
- drew
- picture
- drank
- milk
- read
- book
- went
- zoo
- did
- homework
- friends
- helped
- Mum
- brushed
- teeth
- had
- pizza
- swam
- pool
- tennis
- climbed
- tree
- cleaned
- room
- walked
- school
- sang
- songs
- made
- cake
Printable worksheet
This Battleships Game comes with a free printable worksheet: 1 part 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 Support sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Practise: past simple · Write the verb in the right form.
Part 1: Practise: past simple
Write the verb in the right form.
- Tom _______ (swim) the pool last Saturday.
- We _______ (play) games at home.
- My friends _______ (go) the beach last Saturday.