Past Simple Battleships: What Did You Do?
Students find ships by building past simple sentences about weekends, school days and holidays. Every sentence uses a past simple verb, with a mix of regular and irregular forms.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR B1 level. Topic: past simple and present simple.
Grammar focus: My word list
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- Our teacher
- My little brother
- We
- The children
Grid columns
- last weekend
- yesterday morning
- after school
- last summer
- on Saturday
- at the park
Vocabulary
- visit
- grandparents
- miss
- bus
- do
- homework
- learn
- swim
- bake
- chocolate cake
- fly
- kite
- go
- cinema
- forget
- lunch box
- come
- house
- break
- arm
- have
- birthday party
- find
- lost
- puppy
- run
- race
- tell
- funny
- story
- check
- test
- travel
- Spain
- buy
- bike
- walk
- dog
- build
- tower
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.