Make Your Transportation Activity
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Words used in these worksheets (20)
airplane
ambulance
bike
boat
bus
fire truck
helicopter
jeep
motorcycle
police car
rocket
sailboat
school bus
sports car
submarine
taxi
train
truck
UFO
van
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More quick worksheets and games
I teach this set very early on, then use it again much later to work on take, ride, drive and fly for how we get places: "How do you go to school?" "I fly a rocket to school."
Useful phrases for Transportation
Pair the vocabulary with one sentence pattern at a time. Each level builds on the one before.
Starting out
First lessons, once students know the words- What's this? It's a bus.
- Is it fast or slow?
- Can it fly? Yes. / No.
Next step
Building on the basics- How do you go to school? I take the bus. / I ride my bike. / I walk.
- A pilot flies an airplane.
- I go to the supermarket by car.
Challenge
For older or more advanced students- When I go to my grandma's house, I take the train.
- If I want to go to the moon, I fly a rocket.
- Which is faster, a train or a helicopter?
Teaching tips for Transportation
Sort land, sea and air
Sort the cards into three groups: on the road, on the water, in the sky. It's a quick review and a natural way to talk about each vehicle.
Teach take, ride, drive and fly
We take a bus, ride a bike, drive a car and fly a plane. Grouping the vehicles by verb makes "How do you go to school?" much easier to answer.
Notice "a" and "an"
An airplane, an ambulance, a bus. Transportation is a natural place to practice when we say "an."
Have fun with the silly ones
The UFO, rocket and submarine invite creative answers. "I go to school by UFO" keeps young students laughing and talking.
Transportation lesson ideas
How do you get here?
Students ask classmates "How do you go to school?" and make a class graph: walk, bike, bus, car. Which is most common?
Sound and guess
Make the sound of a vehicle (a siren, a train horn, a helicopter) and students guess which card it is.
Dream trip
Students plan a trip using three kinds of transportation: "First I take a taxi to the airport. Then I fly to the beach. Then I ride a boat."
A transportation week
Flashcards and the land, sea and air sort on day 1, word search on day 2, the class graph on day 3, then bingo or the board game to finish.
More Transportation resources from MES
- Transportation flashcards large cards, game cards and a handout
- Speaking First Curriculum: Unit 1 how transportation fits into a full course
- Transportation listening exercises audio and worksheets
- Transportation online games vocabulary practice for students
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