A Battleships game for practising hobbies and opinions. Students must create sentences using starters such as:
J’adore…
J’aime…
Click on the image below to download the hobbies battleships game in PDF format and scroll down further for a full explanation of the game.
Instructions
Many students will have played this game before in English, although some will need instructions.
Students should work with a partner and use one worksheet each. On the top grid, they should secretly mark their battleships. One battleship should be 4 squares long, one three squares long and two battleships of two squares length:
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XXX
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Example:
Once they have their battleships in place, they should guess where their partner’s battleships are by creating sentences. The very first square on the board, for example, would be:
J’adore faire du vélo or j’adore le vélo
The very last would be:
Je déteste les échecs or je déteste jouer aux échecs
The partner will then say whether the guess is a “hit” (touché), “miss” (raté) or when they have completed sinking a whole ship, “sunk” (coulé). Students may use the bottom grid to mark on the hits and misses of their opponent’s ships.
If the guess “hits” a ship, the guesser has another go. If it is a miss, play passes to the other player.
The winner is the first to sink all of his/her opponent’s battleships.
Related Resources:
A Pelmanism/Matching Cards game with pictures and vocabulary for fifteen common word and phrases for sports and hobbies in French.
Click on the image below to download and see the notes beneath that for a description of the game. I suggest printing onto card so that the images are not visible through paper.
Pelmanism
Students work in small teams of 3 – 6. They shuffle the cards and lay them all face down on the table. Students take it in turns to select two cards, aiming to find a matching pair. If they find one, they keep the cards and take another turn. If not, they must return the cards to where they found them.
Related Resources:
A hobbies wordsearch including the most common vocabulary used in the unit. This worksheet has two differentiated versions. The words in the wordsearch are of course all in French, but you can choose from the listed vocabulary being in French or in English. To download the simple French version, click on the picture below.
To download the higher level version, where students are given the English vocabulary and must work out the French, click here.
To download an answer sheet with the solution highlighted in red, click here.
Related Resources:
A hobbies crossword to help to consolidate vocabulary on the topic. Students are given the names of a variety of hobbies in English and need to fill in the crossword in French. Click on the image below to download as PDF and the answer sheet is available below that.
You can download the answer sheet here.
