This beginner-friendly ESL unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces young learners to essential transport vocabulary while developing their speaking, reading, and comprehension skills. Through engaging stories, interactive activities, and simple grammar structures, students will explore various modes of transportation such as taxis, buses, helicopters, submarines, and more.
Each lesson incorporates fun discussions, visual aids, and real-life applications, making it perfect for 1:1 online lessons, group classes, or classroom instruction. Teachers will find this unit structured, engaging, and easy to implement with young ESL students.
Students learn about taxis, streets, and paying for transportation as they follow Emma’s journey through the city.
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game – identifying transportation images
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Emma Takes Taxis” – a story about Emma taking taxis to different places in the city
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: taxi, street, pay, cashier
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Object pronouns (me, you, him, her, it, us, them)
✔️ Phonics: Silent “K” words (knock, knee, knife, knight)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-playing – students act out taking a taxi and paying
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Understanding how we pay for transport in daily life
Students explore transportation methods on water and in the air, learning about submarines, helicopters, and buses while visiting a harbor.
✔️ Warm-up: Talking about past, present, and future activities
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Going to the Harbor” – Amy and her mom take a taxi to the tea shop and visit the harbor
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: submarine, helicopter, seat, bus
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Object pronouns in questions and sentences
✔️ Phonics: Silent “W” words (write, wrench, wrist, wrong)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Describing transportation pictures and asking questions
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Discussing different ways people travel
Students learn about road safety, seatbelts, gas stations, and car parts in this lesson following Leo and his mother’s eventful beach trip.
✔️ Warm-up: Word chain – transportation-related words
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Trip to the Beach” – Leo and his mom face a flat tire and take a taxi to the beach
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: seatbelt, tire, gas, bus
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using pronouns in sentences
✔️ Phonics: Silent “W” and “K” words
✔️ Interactive Elements: Acting out buckling a seatbelt and discussing car safety
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about road safety and what to do in car trouble
Students learn about traffic lights, street signs, and bridges, helping them understand road safety and directions.
✔️ Warm-up: Guess the word – teacher describes a word, and students guess
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Lily Goes to the Park” – A journey with traffic lights, road signs, and a bridge
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: traffic light, sign, bridge
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Object pronouns in questions
✔️ Phonics: Wr- and Kn- words (wrist, wreck, kneel, knob)
✔️ Interactive Elements: Acting out stopping at a traffic light and following signs
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Identifying signs in students’ communities
This lesson assesses students’ understanding of transport vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension through engaging activities.
✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming words and pronunciation practice
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Beginner ESL learners (A1 level)
✅ Young learners in online 1:1 lessons, group classes, or traditional classrooms
✅ Teachers looking for structured, interactive, and engaging ESL lessons on transport
📄 Lesson previews & worksheets
🎲 Interactive vocabulary games & activities
📚 Engaging reading passages & discussion prompts
🔊 Pronunciation & phonics exercises
📌 Use real-life pictures of taxis, buses, and signs to reinforce vocabulary.
📌 Encourage role-play by having students pretend to take a taxi or cross the street.
📌 Ask students about their real experiences using different modes of transport to make learning personal.