Past Times Battleships: What Happened?
Students find hidden ships by building past simple sentences about real-life events. Each sentence uses a subject, a past simple verb phrase and a past time expression.
A free Battleships Game for Teens at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Talking about past.
Grammar focus: Talking about past
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- My parents
- Our class
- My little brother
- The school team
Grid columns
- last weekend
- yesterday evening
- last summer
- three years ago
- during the holidays
- in the city centre
Vocabulary
- scary
- film
- finish
- homework
- learn
- swim
- start
- secondary school
- take
- photos
- buy
- trainers
- go
- concert
- send
- funny
- video
- work
- café
- move
- town
- try
- surfing
- lose
- phone
- paint
- kitchen
- cook
- dinner
- car
- sell
- house
- rent
- bikes
- lunch
- restaurant
- raise money
- charity
- watch
- play
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.