Weekend Adventures: Past Simple Battleships
Young learners build past simple sentences about yesterday, last weekend and last summer while hunting for hidden ships. Each guess means saying a full sentence with a regular (-ed) or irregular past verb.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Present simple, Past simple.
Grammar focus: Present simple, Past simple
Grid rows
- I
- My sister
- Tom
- We
- My friends
- Our teacher
Grid columns
- yesterday morning
- last weekend
- after school
- last summer
- at the park
- on Saturday
Vocabulary
- ate
- pancakes
- visited
- grandma
- did
- homework
- swam
- sea
- rode
- bike
- watched
- funny
- film
- drank
- orange juice
- made
- cake
- played
- piano
- learned
- swim
- fed
- ducks
- went
- birthday party
- missed
- bus
- cleaned
- room
- football
- flew
- Spain
- lost
- ball
- bought
- new
- game
- walked
- school
- had
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, 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.