Transportation Unit Flashcards for Kindergarten English Language Learners

 Starting the blog post series for the Transportation, Vehicles or On the Go unit resource. The resource to learn the English Language is available at the TPT store.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Transportation-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-23-7677315

Take a look at what this resource comes with.

 

Transportation Unit Flashcards to identify and describe vehicles. Use them for more repetition and get your students to memorize those new words. Play with the flashcards as much as you can. There are several activities to do in class. The set includes: car, bus,boat, plane,train, truck,bike, helicopter,ship.

    Review the key language: What is this?

Place all the same kind of transportation flashcards on the board. Say a model sentence and have the students repeat.

Teacher: It’s a yellow car!

Students: It’s a blue car!

Then, students can identify the colors of all the cars.

   Ask questions with the motorcycle flashcards.

Teacher: What's this?

Students: It's a motorcycle.

                 Use the trucks flashcards for even more speaking!

Teacher: What color is this truck?

Students: white! It's a white truck.

     Place all your students in a large circle depending on how many students you have in class. Hand in a flashcard to each student. Name a flashcard. Teacher: car!
That student with the car flashcard must say the word and show his/her flashcard to the circle. Then, he/she says another word from the flashcards within the circle of the students.
Student 1: truck!
Continue with more students.

 What color is it?
Place the flashcards on the board and ask questions.
Teacher: What is this?
Students: a car!
Teacher: What color is it?
Students: yellow!
Teacher: It’s a yellow car!

     Is it big or small?
Have the students sort the flashcards into big or small on the board.
Teacher: It’s a big airplane!
Students: It’s a small airplane.
or
Teacher: This car is big!
Students: This car is small.

·    Distinguish between  Long and short. More adjectives to include during this unit for the students to identify the tranportation vehicles by length. Sort the vehicles into long and short.
Teacher: It’s a long truck!
Students: It’s a short truck.
Ask questions.
Teacher: Is this train long or short?
Students: It’s short .

Introduce left and right using the flashcards. Have the students sort the transportation vehicles by how they are facing either left or right.

These flashcards work for introducing new and old.

Teacher: This is a new car. This is an old car.

 Students will recognize where the vehicles belong: air, water, land.
How does the vehicle travel?
Teacher: The bus travels on land.
Students: The truck travels on land.
Continue with water and air.
Teacher: Where is the ship?
Students: It's on the water.
Teacher: Where does the bus go?
Student: It goes on land.

   Verbs related to the vehicles. Have the students imitate the actions as you show the flashcard.
Teacher: Fly the plane!!
Drive the train!!

Ride the bicycle!

Students will discuss that people use different means of transportation.

Ask questions with HOW?

Teacher: How are you going to school?

Student: I am going by car.

      Ask your students and graph how they come to school.

    Count the doors and windows in each vehicle. Make a graph. Students can also sort by doors, wheels and by color of the vehicles.

Next blog post for the Transportation Unit resource will be about activities with the small cards.

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