Connect 4: bottle cap-style

This isn't the most challenging game ever, but it went over well when I played it with some upper beginners/ lower intermediates.

Make little cards with various verbs in different tenses (i.e. "will write", "bought", "am eating"). Lay these out in a grid; I'm pretty sure that my set is 6 x 6. I play this game using bottle caps from Coke, Fanta, Sprite bottles (mostly because that's what I had on hand) as the game pieces. The students- or groups- are each given a handful of caps. Then, you play it kind of like the game Connect Four. The goal is for each student/ team to get four in a row. To place their bottle cap/piece, they need to construct a sentence using their chosen verb correctly. Example: if they want to put their piece on the square for "am eating," they need to create a sentence like, "Right now, I am eating soup."

The first team to get four in a row wins!