Counting Vehicles 1 to 20 | ESL Number Words, Numerals, & Quantity Activities

 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 resource helps students review essential transportation-related words (e.g., bus, car,) to improve their vocabulary. The topic allows integration with math such as counting vehicles.

Flashcards are a versatile teaching tool to be used in various activities as seen below.

Counting practice using the flashcards. Show a flashcard with vehicles on a road. Ask: “How many cars are there?” Students count and answer: “There are three cars.”  This builds confidence in forming complete sentences.

Place any quantity flashcard and have the students count how many of each vehicle they can count.

Show a flashcard with several vehicles of different colors. Have students make sentences: “The mail truck is white.”

Review Adjectives with Flashcards. Show transportation flashcards and ask students to sort them: The limousine is big!

Practice adjectives related to transportation. Review the comparatives (faster, slower, bigger, smaller).

Flashcard Comparison: Hold up two flashcards and ask students to compare them using comparatives.

Students can practice prepositions of place such as: in front of, behind, next to, between and use them in complete sentences like: The white limousine is behind the red car.

Where’s the Vehicle? Practice prepositions (on, under, next to).

Flashcard Grammar Activity: “I like… but I don’t like…”

Students practice asking and answering questions about transportation using the correct structure and preposition “by.”

Small cards. Labeling helps EFL students expand their vocabulary. This is especially important because vocabulary is the building block of language proficiency.

Students match the quantity small cards with the corresponding numeral flashcards, reinforcing number recognition from 1 to 20.

Transportation Bingo. Give students a bingo grid to write any number from 1 to 20. Call out the names of vehicles using the small cards. Students mark or cover the matching number.

In this interactive activity, students color the vehicles according to how you dictate, then cut them out and fold the flap provided to glue them onto the road worksheet. Students can decide how many vehicles to place and where to position them on the road. After creating their road scene, they write a short description using complete sentences. They describe the vehicles, their colors, their locations using prepositions, and add adjectives to make their sentences more descriptive.

Assemble like this!

 Read and Color the Vehicles worksheet where they read a phrase and color each vehicle according to the text.

Matching exercises Worksheet: Match transportation words to pictures.

Labeling activities Worksheets: Students label vehicles and the number on these two worksheets.

A board game with four paths to encourage speaking. Players talk during the game using full sentences like “This is number twelve!”

Matching mats give students a clear visual framework to sort and match different representations of numbers.

Students color the vehicles on their worksheet according to the number they spin on the spinner. They must count and color the correct quantity based on the spinner result. Use it to practice number recognition (1–20)

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Adjectives Worksheets and Printable Book

 LINK to the Adjectives resource is here for your lesson planning :

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Describe Yourself" Worksheet. This worksheet invites students to draw a picture of themselves and describe their appearance using simple adjectives. It encourages Self-Expression.

This worksheet invites students to read the sentence and color the matching adjective of the picture, supporting early reading skills and vocabulary development through action. It is a way to reinforce Word Recognition.

Repetitive adjective exposure boosts word familiarity and supports sight word development for English language learners. Use this cut and paste worksheet set along with unscramble sentence.

Build Confidence in Reading, by matching the sentence to the word featuring the character of MR. Big Nose from the book below.

This printable book features a character with a big nose in a fun and meaningful way to connect reading with learning adjectives—especially those related to physical appearance and descriptive language. Print the pages and put together as many books as you need.

After reading, students can draw their own character. They will describe it using adjectives based on the book.

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Printable Adjectives Games for ESL

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Play is essential for language learning—especially for elementary English language learners.

Matching cards game. It is a good idea to have the students get familiar with the cards by matching them on the table first. They see the word and picture together, helping them understand and remember the meaning naturally.

This game can be played in pairs or in groups of three. There are 24 cards. Give each group a set of cards. Students shuffle the cards and hand them all out to the members of the group. Students hold all the cards in their hands without showing them to the group. Explain that the idea of the game is to make pairs of picture and words. The first student to make them by getting rid of all the cards is the winner. Have them notice that there is a Funny Guy card that does not match to any word.

The game starts as students make pairs that they already have in their own cards and lay them on the table as they name the adjectives. The players make sure that the pairs are right.

Student 1 picks a card without seeing from the next to him/her and checks if it makes a pair to his/her own cards. If there is a pair, the students lay the pair on the table. The game continues until the first students gets rid of all the cards.

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Play Memory Match (Concentration). Place picture cards and word cards face down. Students take turns flipping two at a time to find a match. Then, Say the adjective when a match is found.

Use the cards for speaking!

A sentence association game that is always a favorite. It builds Sentence Structure Awareness.

Students learn how to put adjectives into simple sentence patterns. By matching adjective words to pictures and sentence parts, students become more confident using new vocabulary in real language. Lay out sentence cards and picture cards. Students match the correct sentence to the correct picture.

This scrabble-style activity is a tactile and engaging way for students to practice spelling and recognizing adjective words—a key skill for building both vocabulary and reading confidence. Students use the tiles to build the word.

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Adjectives Craft Stick Puppets Sorting

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Making and sorting puppets with adjective labels engages students physically, which helps them remember vocabulary better.

When kids cut, glue, label, and move their puppets, they’re actively connecting the word to the concept. I cut the toilet paper tubes in half and tapes a classification word.  I cut all the pictures and glued each one on a craft stick and also glued the word. But, you can glue only the picture and have the students find the word.

Sorting puppets by adjectives helps learners organize new vocabulary into categories (e.g., feelings, condition, weather, age, size, etc.). This boosts comprehension and prepares them for sentence building later.

Students can use their puppets to describe: “Coffee is hot., The ice cream is cold.”

These puppets are reusable and great for memory games by matching the word to the cutout.

Speaking Prompts. Students pick a puppet and describe it out loud using full sentences: “This is Sarah. She has gray hair She is old.”

Writing Activity. Students choose a puppet and write a short description using adjectives.

“This is Max. He is rich. He has short black hair and black eyes.”

Use the puppets for small group adjective practice to write a short story: There are two boxes, one is full, one is empty. There is an empty brown box and full white box. I like the full box, I don’t like the empty box.

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