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Students explore a poster and listen to and practice with transportation words. In this ESL instructional activity, students use the vocabulary words in context, role play, and make a map for vocabulary reinforcement.
Students explore a poster and listen to and practice with transportation words. In this ESL lesson, students use the vocabulary words in context, role play, and make a map for vocabulary reinforcement.
Let's go to New York! Young researchers browse several websites to find informational texts that will help them decide the best mode of transportation for planning a pretend trip from their hometown to New York City. They create charts and graphs with spreadsheet software to display data they've collected. Next, they write a narrative explaining which mode of transportation they have chosen, including supporting details and textual evidence for their decision. All handouts and rubrics are included.
In this transport idioms learning exercise, students complete sentences in which idioms are used. Students must interpret the idioms correctly in order to complete the sentences.
Pupils, in groups, identify the origins of a number of transportation idioms. They search for current transportation idioms to have a partner explain.
Vroom vroom! Get behind the wheel of a vehicle in this ESL presentation about transportation. Clear illustrations help to define thirty transportation words such as car, pickup truck, and airplane. Use this presentation in the context of a unit about transportation, or in a game to reinforce vocabulary.
Young scholars evaluate the impact of transportation on society, the economy, communication, and travel. They complete an inquiry project about modern modes of transportation, and compare transportation of the 19th century to transportation today.
In this transports of delight activity, students, with a partner, think of how many different modes of transportation there is, the advantages and disadvantages of each one and fill in the blanks in six sentences.
Students discuss different modes of transportation, then sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.
Students, while reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms on the board, examine various transportation costs, schedules and practices. They brainstorm both economical and convenient ways to go from place to place. In addition, they role play making travel arrangements.