Reporting the Peculiar News
Practice turning direct speech into reported speech with young learners, using time and place expressions to anchor each sentence.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Direct vs indirect speech.
Grammar focus: Direct and indirect speech
Grid rows
- I
- She
- The teacher
- My friend
- They
- We
Grid columns
- yesterday
- after class
- during the trip
- on the phone
- at breakfast
- this morning
Vocabulary
- without
- likely
- unlikely
- peculiar
- intriguing
- significant
- reveal
- glance
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.