TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Clothes Battleships

Activity Type Introduction

Listening and speaking In this entertaining worksheet activity, students play a game of
activity, pairwork battleships to practice clothes vocabulary.

Procedure
Language Focus
Give each student a copy of the worksheet.
Clothes
Tell the students to keep their worksheet secret at all times.
Aim
Have the students draw the six clothes shapes (T-shirt, cap, shoe,
To play a game of trousers, shorts, hat) anywhere on the top grid of the worksheet.
battleships to practice
clothes vocabulary. Explain that the clothes shapes must not touch each other, but
they can touch the sides of the grid.

Preparation Next, divide the students into pairs.

Make one copy of the
Have the students sit back to back so they can't see each other's
worksheet for each
worksheet.
student.
Explain that the students are now going to play a game of
Level battleships to find where their partner has drawn the clothes on
their grid.
Beginner
The students then take it in turns to call out coordinates, e.g. b 4.

Time If their partner says 'hit', the student shades the square in the
25 minutes bottom grid.

If their partner says 'miss', the student marks the square with a
cross.

The first student to find all six articles of clothing wins the game.

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ESL / EFL RESOURCES Clothes Battleships

Your Grid

Draw the clothes shapes onto the grid. The clothes should not touch each other.

trousers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T-shirt

shoe D cap

shorts H hat

Your Partner's Grid

Now, play a game of battleships and try to find where your partner has drawn their clothes.

trousers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 T-shirt

shoe D cap

shorts H hat

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