Mastering Transportation Prepositions
ESL Lesson PlansMastering Transportation Prepositions

Mastering Transportation Prepositions

This is a dynamic 60-minute group lesson for A2 learners! The lesson targets speaking, writing, and grammar skills with interactive tasks: partner discussions about travel routines, dialogue analysis, fill-in-the-gap exercises, sentence unscrambling, and a creative trip-planning role-play. Students will solidify their understanding of transportation prepositions while describing dream trips, daily commutes, and favorite vehicles. Perfect for young learners to confidently use phrases like "travel by train," "sit in a taxi," or "ride on a bike" in real-life contexts!

Skills

  • Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information
  • Can produce a series of simple phrases and sentences linked with simple connectors.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Work with your partner and discuss the following questions.

1
How do you usually go to school?
2
Do you prefer to travel by bus, train, car or plane? Why?
3
What’s the most exciting trip you’ve taken on a train?
4
Do you feel comfortable in a taxi?
2

Read these short conversations. What prepositions do we use with different types of transportation?

3

Read the rule about prepositions that we use with different types of transportation.

4

Fill in the gaps with the correct prepositions.

5

Unscramble the words to make sentences about transportation.

6

Work with your partner. Use the beginning of the dialogue below to plan a trip together. Describe what types of transportation you will use and include the prepositions by, on, or in.

7

Choose one of the topics below and write 5-6 sentences using the prepositions by, on, in.

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