35-50 min.
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Brief Outline: An exciting pair game where students try to hit their opponent's ships.
Materials Needed:
Detailed Explanation:
Each student recieves a worksheet with 2 grids. 1 grid is their board, and the other is their partner's board. On their grid, they draw their battleships using the grid squares. Their battleships include: 4 square ship (x1), 3 square submarine (x1), and 2 square cruiser ships (x2). Students may draw them horizontally or vertically, but not diagonal. Keep the board a secret!
Next, students get into pairs. Janken to see who goes first.
Each grid square has a corresponding letter and number. Students take turns calling out squares, such as A-2, B-3, D-4, etc. If their partner has a ship positioned on the square, they announce their ship is hit. If not, it is a miss. Students mark on their sheet (on the partner grid) what squares they've called out to strategize where their partner's ships may be.
When all the squares of a ship are hit, the ship is sunk. After all of one's ships have been sunk, they lose and the game is over.
Variations: Battleship can be changed to suit many different grammar points.
Teaching Suggestions:
- The hardest part is teaching them how to play. Once the students understand how to play the game, it's fun.
- Teach the students to say, "You sank my Battleship!"
Tips/Cautions:
- It's very important that the Japanese teacher has a FIRM grasp on how to play. The JTE almost always makes or breaks the game.
Comments:
- @Dan, "Bob thinks [that]..." is taught in 2nd grade, except for the "that" is in brackets. :)
- Played it with opinion section - battleship is always a good game if you can get them to understand the rules well enough. That being said, be careful with the opinion one - formatting was weird and I had to polish it up to get all the words to appear. Also keep in mind that "that" as in "Bob thinks that..." is not taught until 3rd year of JHS. Your JTE will probably want you to erase all the "that" words for 2nd years.
- I played this with the Opinion section and it worked great. I think the contents for the time one should be changed, since asking a question and then answering it yourself is just silly. Maybe something like this for the column: "the time in new york is..." and then in the rows it'll state times "5:00 in the evening" and so on. The whole thing will be: "The time in New York is 5:00 in the evening" "Hit/Miss" Change turns. That way it only A B sequence.