Past Simple Battleships: What Happened?
Students build past simple sentences about school, weekends and holidays. They practise regular and irregular verbs in affirmative, negative and question forms.
A free Battleships Game for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Past simple regular and irregular verbs, affirmative and negative sentences, questions.
Grammar focus: Past simple regular and irregular verbs, affirmative and negative sentences, questions
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- We
- Our teacher
- Did you
- Did your parents
Grid columns
- yesterday morning
- after school
- last weekend
- at the park
- on Saturday night
- last summer
Vocabulary
- wake up
- late
- homework
- visit
- grandparents
- lose
- phone
- scary
- film
- learn
- swim
- miss
- bus
- video games
- go out
- ride
- bike
- birthday party
- travel
- maths
- test
- walk
- together
- make
- pizza
- basketball
- stay up
- camping
- arrive
- early
- mark
- run
- marathon
- take photos
- birds
- check
- emails
- buy
- car
- breakfast
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 Core 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.
- Practise: past simple regular and irregular verbs, affirmative and negative sentences, questions · Write the verb in the right form.
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.