Battleships: réserver une chambre

This French battleships game is based around picture prompts to practise essential phrases for reserving a hotel room. Start by projecting the grid and drilling the key language with the class, so that they are confident with the pronunciation and what the pictures represent. A worksheet is also provided for further practice.

To check understanding, give each student a printed battleships grid for this listening exercise. On your own sheet, write numbers 1–10 in ten different squares. Read out the French sentences for each of those squares. Students listen and note the numbers 1–10  in the correct squares. The answers can be written onto the projected grid for students to mark their partner’s work.

Students can then play battleships in paris, each marking five squares on their own grid in secret and taking it in turns to guess their partner’s squares using only the target language. The winner is the one who guesses all five chosen squares first.