Time Travel Battleships: What Happened?
Students call a row and a column, then build a past simple sentence about weekends, holidays and school days. This practises regular and irregular past forms with clear past time expressions.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Present simple and past simple.
Grammar focus: Present simple and past simple
Grid rows
- I
- My sister
- Grandpa
- We
- My friends
- Our teacher
Grid columns
- yesterday morning
- last weekend
- after school yesterday
- last summer
- last Saturday
- at the park
Vocabulary
- pancakes
- cousins
- homework
- sea
- funny
- film
- kite
- shower
- bake
- chocolate
- piano
- learn
- bike
- shoes
- ducks
- newspaper
- car
- pick up
- tomatoes
- garden
- pizza
- dog
- miss
- bus
- zoo
- football
- camp
- lake
- bedrooms
- picnic
- orange juice
- match
- ride
- bikes
- travel
- Spain
- house
- climb
- tree
- map
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: present simple and past simple · 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.