Sports Time Machine: Tenses Battleship
A 6x6 grammar battleship grid where students combine sports subjects with time expressions to practice six different tenses in natural sentences.
A free Battleships Game for Teens at CEFR B1 level. Topic: Sports.
Grammar focus: tenses
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- The football team
- We
- My sister
- Professional athletes
Grid columns
- every Saturday
- right now
- last year
- yesterday evening
- next month
- this year
Vocabulary
- play
- basketball
- friends
- train
- race
- win
- swimming
- competition
- run
- park
- join
- gym
- score
- goals
- tennis
- watch
- match
- break
- arm
- skateboard
- practice
- start
- lessons
- team
- hard
- warm up
- championship
- tactics
- travel
- city
- matches
- volleyball
- Olympics
- lose
- final
- cheer
- visit
- stadium
- kilometers
- stretch
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.