Teaching transportation with verbs and "can" questions

Target Group:

Beginner Level

Material:

Transportation flashcards and some verb flashcards

Vocabulary:

ambulance, hot-air balloon, bicycle, boat, bus, car, ferry, helicopter, jeep, lorry, motorbike, plane, police car, rocket, ship, elevated railway, train, underground, minibus

Process:

Introduce transportation vocabulary to students first. After students have learned transportation vocabulary you can ask random questions such as: Can you drive a car? Can you fly a plane? Do you like to fly a helicopter? Do you want a motorbike? e.g..

Students should answer “Yes, I can …. “, when they can do the action or “No. I cannot ….”, when they cannot do the action.

Skills:

Transportation vocabulary; spelling; numbers; colours; sentence structure; word-picture association; word-picture recognition; early reading; singular and plural; conjunction, favourites

Game Idea:

Round and Round - Small groups of students sit in a circle (I like boy girl boy girl). Students pass flashcards around a circle face down. When the music stops or the teacher says OK, students turn their card over. The students get then to say their word in a sentence.

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