Auburn: Transportation Lesson

It's that time of year again: students from Auburn are here to lead English classes for a week! They always do an excellent job, and I love having them here.

Today was day 1 in the classes, and I went with one of the groups who did a lesson on transportation. Here's a rundown of the ideas they created:

1. Pictures from home. One of the girls in the group brought some really great pictures of vehicles she sees on a regular basis (bikes on campus, semis, cars, trucks, boats), as well as unique vehicles like a cruise ship and a hot air balloon. They went through all of the pictures (including one of a gas station, a speed limit sign, bumper sticker, and a crosswalk) and discussed the vocabulary.

2. Matching game! You know I'm a fan of the matching games. :)

Action shot of Melanie working with a group of Matchers.

3. Create-your-own-bumper-sticker. This was a fun one; they brought an Auburn University bumper sticker as an example and had the students design bumper stickers for their favorite sports teams. I'm including pictures of the winning bumper stickers from each class.

"Vorskla" is the local soccer team- ALL of the groups from both classes chose to make bumper stickers for Vorskla! This one copies the font used on the scarves that fans wear to the games.

The guys that drew this one were truly talented; this is the crest (for lack of a better word) for the team. The "f" and "c" stand for "football club."

4. Transportation Jeopardy. I'll do a separate post of how to construct and conduct a simple game of Jeopardy. I use it ALL the time and canNOT believe I don't already have a post of it!

5. When a time-filler was needed, we fell back to trusty ol' Hangman! Can't go wrong with that!

Bag of supplies for this lesson:
- pictures for vocabulary
- 4 sets of matching cards
- sample bumper sticker
- strips of paper cut to bumper sticker size for groups to design on
- several packs of colored pencils
- small prizes for winning group
- master copy of lesson plan, including the questions for Jeopardy
- list of supplemental activities in case of need