Transportation: I come to school by car.

  • Topic: Transportation - I come to school by car.
  • Communication Objectives: Learn to talk about means of transportation.
  • Language Objectives: To learn to ask and answer questions about means of transportation using the question format 'how do you?'.
  • Vocabulary:  transportation  – foot, car, plane, bus, bicycle, taxi, truck, van  etc.
  • Sentence Structures:
    • Do you always come to school by car?
    • Yes, I do.
    • How do you come to school?

Transportation

  • Grammar:
  • by car / on foot:  When we use a machine (car, truck, train) we often use the preposition 'by'. We go 'by' that machine. When we walk we usually use 'on'. We go on foot.

    Examples:

    • I come to school by car.
    • I come to school by taxi.
    • I come to school on foot. (CORRECT)
    • I come to school by foot. (WRONG)