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How to start
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Track 17.
Ask the students to listen to the song and to
do the actions.
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Ask the students to thinkback todifferent typesof transport.
Ask them, for example,
Do boats travel by sea or in the air?
Are planes fast or slow? Do you have a bicycle? Do you come
to school by car? Do cars travel on roads or by sea?
Explain
to the students that boats, cars and planes are all means of
transport that can carry people. Point out that some means
of transport are only for goods and for objects or things. In
this unit they will look at the difference between one type of
transport and the other.
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Teaching tip
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Some students might use L1 to share some of their ideas.
Encourage theuseof English throughpositive reinforcement
and by recasting their answers and ideas in English.
Activities: step-by-step guide
Activity 1
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Ask the students to look at the different types of transport.
Elicit the words for the different things (
bus, plane, bike,
lorry, car, van
). Ask the students to think about which of the
means of transport they use and then to colour them. Allow
time for students to complete. Check answers. Point out
that we use transport according to our needs, for example,
for short journeys (bike), if we need to carry lots of things
(lorry), or if we need to cross the sea (plane).
Assessment opportunity
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As students are colouring, walk around the class checking
progress and understanding.
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Explain that some types of transport can carry lots of people.
Ask them to look at the images and to circle the things that
are used to transport a lot of people. Students should circle
the bus and the plane. Point out that bikes and cars are used
by one person or small groups of people. Can they think of
any other types of transport for lots of people? (trains, ferry
boats).
Activity 2
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Explain that some types of transport are for people while
others are for goods or things. Ask the students to look at
the pictures in the top row. Tell themthat they need tomatch
the images from the top row to the type of transportation
in the bottom row. Allow time for them to do the matching
activity. When they have finished, they can compare their
answers with a partner. Check answers.
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In the second row, tell them to put an ‘X’ on the type of
transport that is for a lot of people. Students cross out the
picture of the train.
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Read the sentence at the bottom of the page.
Extra idea!
Revision
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Give TPR instructions and encourage students to mime
the actions, for example,
You are driving a bus, you are
travelling by boat, you are riding a bike, you are flying in a
plane.
Content objectives
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Discuss different types of transport.
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Distinguish between ways of transporting goods and
people.
Vocabulary
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bike, bus, car, collective, lorry, plane, train, van
Structures
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There is
transport for people.
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There is
transport for things.
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Collective transport
is
for a lot of people.
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Planes
are
big.
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Cars
are not
very big.
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Trains
carry
people.
Resources
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Track 17
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Flashcards
Types of transport
