Battleship

This activity is courtesy of //Darcy Ebert at DeWitt High School// user:flanne13

This is similar to the popular "Battleship" game we've all played as children, and can be used for just about any topic to help students practice writing and speaking in complete sentences.

Attached is a sheet of paper with two battle ship grids. On each grid, in english, the left side has a list of subjects (for example) and the top has a list (in english) of adjectives (for example). The verb "to be" is in the top left corner to inicate its use for every box. On the top, students fill in their battlefield with their respective ships (great way to learn misc vocab!) and we encourage them to use diagonals (this is illegal in the real game but not here!).

Next, in order to try and attack their partner's battleship they must prepare and send a missle (a sentence in the TL) using the bottom grid, choosing a sqaure guessing where their partner's ship is. After writing the sentence, to send it over they must say it in the TL and hand their paper to their partner. Their partner then first checks the sentence for mistakes, and if there aren't any, they can tell their partner hit or miss (in the TL). If they get it wrong, they must circle the mistake and they don't have to tell their partner hit or miss.

At the end, the winner is usually the student with the most amount of the correct sentences or "hits" (it depends, we let the students choose). We also do not give students their prizes if we can find more than one mistake of the set of papers from the pair.

This is a grid to play battleship, it is a blank grid,, you need to add verbs in which you would like to concentrate down the left hand side. If you teach something other than Spanish/ESL, you need to put the subject pronouns across the top in your TL. Then, students "outline" ships. I usually give them 5 ships. (1 of 1 square, 1 of 2 squares etc until they get to 5 squares) Once students have outlined ships, they need start by calling out a grid number, conjugating the verb correctly. I like to have them write it in the square to ensure they are actually conjugating and not simply saying "Yo- banarse" (the infinitive) If they hit their partner's ship, they mark it with an X, or another marker to symbolize the hit/miss. The student who sinks all their partners ships wins. NOTE: The Spanish template does NOT INCLUDE 2ND PERSONS PLURAL. (VOSOTROS) If you would like to add it, go into "table" and "insert" then insert "column" user:cartierm Here is the Template I use for ESL learners, non Spanish teachers may want this one instead. (6 subject pronouns) user:cartierm