This resource is included in the Transportation unit for Elementary ESL at this link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Elementary-ESL-4049752
The Transportation games
turn learning into an enjoyable experience, keeping students interested and
eager to participate. Bring in games that are not done on a flat screen!
Board
games support visual learners who benefits
from a road colorful path, tokens, and cards. The kinesthetic learners will love
to move car pieces along the road.
Domino
style game aims to match transportation adjective
phrases with the images. It can be played alone or with a partner.
The
pocket chart cards are great to review key grammar points, such as the adjectives.
It can be as easy as matching the picture to the word as in my example below.
Move on to adding an adjective card to describe a vehicle.
Students
remember grammar structures through engaging gameplay. Have the students use
the cards to mark the adjectives in their comparative and superlative form.
They can also write sentences on their notebooks.
Key
matching game. This kind of game will encourage
students to communicate naturally in English.
Print
and have ready a set of cards for every 2 or 4 students. They will shuffle the
cards and hand out 6 or 8 cards depending on the size of the group. Let them
know that the card with the keys is a card to match any other card.
They
will hold the cards without letting their partners see them. They can make
pairs (pictures and words) if they are lucky to have them and display on the table.
The
game starts as a student 1ask another: Do you have a plane?
Student
2: Yes, I do! (hands in the card)
Student
1 displays the card match.
Students
can play without direct teacher involvement. One student writes several transportation
words backwards using the cards and another will write them correctly.
The
set of cards can also be used as a Memory matching games to spark excitement as
students try to find pairs with a word and a picture.
Give
students just a few minutes to make as many words related to the transportation
unit using the letters provided. The student with the most words wins!
Have
one student write the transportation words backwards using the cards and the other
will write them on paper in the correct way.
Write
sentences. Hand in a template of the worksheets
for the students to make complete sentences. They will cut up the words and put
the words into the boxes to form the sentences. If you just want to cut printing
cost, have the students write the words on the spaces on the worksheet, using
the words cutout as a guide.
In
pairs, students can check each other work and see if they have similar
sentences and if they are correct.
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