Students get into pairs facing one another. Each student gets a game sheet. The game sheet includes two grids. One grid is for the students to place his battleships on. The other grid is for the student to record his guesses on. On the student s own grid, he places various ships . For example, one battleship (taking up 4 connecting squares), two cruisers (3 squares) and one submarine (1 square). Ships can be placed anywhere on the grid (horizontally, vertically, but not diagonally). Students must not show their game sheets to other students. To make the game sheet, put beginning parts of sentences in the squares of the first column (for example I am , You are , He is ). Then put the endings of those sentences in the squares of the first row (for example Japanese a good baseball player a high school student ). Students then say these sentences to indicate which square on the grid that they are going to guess. For example, He is Japanese , might indicate the square that is in the first row, third column. If the partner has placed a ship in that square, he says hit and marks that square with a big X . If the partner has not placed a ship there, he says miss . Then the other student makes his own guess. Students record their own guesses on the grid made for that purpose. Students try to sink each other s battleships in this way. The student who sinks their partner s entire fleet wins.