Weekend Stories: Past Simple Battleships
Teens fire at the grid by combining a subject, a past simple verb phrase and a time or place expression to make a true-to-life sentence about what people did. Regular and irregular past forms are mixed throughout.
A free Battleships Game for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple.
Grammar focus: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- Our teacher
- We
- My parents
- My little brother
Grid columns
- yesterday
- last weekend
- after school
- on Saturday
- at the park
- last summer
Vocabulary
- watched
- visited
- did
- played
- rode
- went
- sent
- had
- called
- bought
- found
- learned
- gave
- cleaned
- marked
- met
- walked
- travelled
- ate
- stayed
- practised
- camped
- worked
- painted
- picked up
- cooked
- broke
- slept
- lost
- fell
- started
- film
- grandma
- homework
- bike
- beach
- message
- birthday party
- trainers
- test
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, present continuous, 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.