This is a battleship game supplemental to some of the key verbs in early New Horizons 1. It’s fantastic for drilling want, like, have, and need + infinitive questions and answers.
Ex. Do you need to sleep?
I made this for my Special Ed kids to practice but I can see it being useful in a general 1st year class too.
When you’re introducing this game, be sure to demonstrate it with the JTE as your “competitor” and practice the pronunciations and meanings of each prompt. When they’re getting their feet under them I also have the kids work in pairs of two (who have identical grids on top) competing against another team of two. Make sure they switch off who is asking the question and who is answering.
When the class understands the game well a 5x5 grid with 7 “ships” will take about 15 minutes of class time and a 4x4 grid with 5 “ships” will take 5-10 minutes. If you need to shorten or lengthen it you can add/ take away a row and column and adjust the number of “ships” to match.
I’ve given everyone access to view the document so if you need to make edits please make a duplicate and edit that.
You can see a larger document with hyperlinks to all of my battleship games here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18lb3s4RWX1_A103itFCJaPQLdB7tRXKR1gS2F1K8rB4/edit?usp=sharing
Let me know if you find any errors or have questions.
Enjoy!
Could you make the document public access? Thanks!