VOCABULARY GAME: Battleship

                              

Battleship

This is a game I recently found out on the net. I had seen it years ago, but I had never put it into action in my class until I really wanted to come up with a new way to practice vocabulary. Here's how it goes.

1. I draw a big 10x10 chart on the board, just like the one below, and ask my students to draw two of those in their notebooks.

2. Once they have drawn the two charts, I ask them to write at least 5 words in the grids of one chart in any position they want. The words can be about the topic being studied or just to recycle words. 

3. Then, I set them in pairs and they will take turns giving different positions so as to get their partners' hidden words. E.g.

Student A: B2

Student B : "K"

Therefore, student A writes the letter K in B2 in the second chart they drew. 

Student B: C10 

Student A: Nothing

Therefore, student B will write an "X" in C10 in the second chart they drew. 

At the end, the winner will be the one who gets his/her partner's 5 words. 

Give it a go and have your students engaged with the lesson. If it worked for me, it can also work for you.