Card A

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A B C D E F G H I J
20 past tense verbs have been scattered across your partner’s grid. Call
out co-ordinates on the board to locate each of the past tense verbs.
When you locate a word, your partner will read it out loud. Read the
matching verb from your list and write it in the matching space on your
grid. Cross out the verbs until you have located all 20 verbs. Be careful!
Some spaces contain SPLATS- hit five and you lose.

eat fly find

build dig get
see swim have
draw drink say
run catch
feed write
buy learn
sit forget
 Card B

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Enter the 20 past tense verbs on your map. Your partner will try to locate the
verbs by calling out co-ordinates.
When your partner calls a co-ordinate that has a past tense verb written in the
space, read out the word. Your partner will then say the matching verb before
crossing if off their list. Your partner has 20 words to find.
But… if your partner lands on 5 splats before they have found all 20 words, you
are the winner.

ate dug had

built swam said
saw drank
drew caught Splats look like this:
ran wrote
fed learnt
bought forgot Draw five of them on
sat found your grid.
flew got
eat ate build built
see saw draw drew
run ran feed fed
buy bought sit sat
fly flew dig dug
swim swum drink drank
catch caught write wrote
learn learnt forget forgot
find found get got
have had say said
These cards are provided as a master list and can be used as a matching game
after playing the barrier game. They can also be used before playing the barrier
game to familiarise the children with the words that will be used in the game.
They can match the words, use them in sentences and then play the barrier
game.