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TRANSPORTS - Page 4

TRANSPORTS / TRANSPORTATION

(Updated on 14/09/2011)

 
Cliparts, Flashcards
and Pictures
Maps


Vocabulary
Transports in general -
Bikes - Boats - Bus -
Cars - Chuckwagons -
Motorcycles -
Planes - Puffin -
Segway - Submarines -
Trains - Trucks - Tube
Encyclopedia


Pronunciation
/ Listening

 
Idioms
Conversation questions
/ Role-play
Interactive activities :
Transports in general - Bicycles -
Boats - Bus / Tube -
Cars - Motorcycles - Planes -
Trains

Activities to print
Transports in general -
Bicycles -
Boats - Bus - Cars -
Planes -
Rockets - Space shuttles -
Tube

 

Lesson plans

Webquests

Posters

Jokes

Stories



Interactive games

 
Games to print

 

Cartoons

 

Videos
Crafts

Songs
Transports in general -
BOAT - BUS - CAR -
PLANE - TRAIN


Related pages :

Transports (civilization) :
Cliparts - History - Environment -
Traffic signs - Types of transport - Airports -
Safety - Highway Code


Road - Travelling - The Underground / The Tube - American Railroads - I want to be a helicopter pilot - Titanic

 

 

 

Stories :

  • Chevrolet: True Story (creativecriminals.com)
    "A 1965 Chevy Impala SS is more than a car to the Younger family, it's what binds them together.
    To pay for his sons' education, Herb Younger was forced to sell his beloved '65 Impala.
    Two decades later, they found a way to pay him back."
    (YouTube)

 

 

 

  • Bicycle - a story with illustrations - The story about how Allie tried to learn how to ride a bike.
    (hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)

  • Woman driver caught flossing teeth at 70mph on motorway
    "Traffic police spotted the driver, 36, on the M4 motorway using dental floss to clean her teeth in her rear view mirror. She was pulled over, lectured
    about careless driving and given a fixed penalty notice of £60...
    A spokesman said: "We've caught women applying lipstick, make-up and checking their hair in the mirror - and even men using an electric razor on their way to work."
    (telegraph.co.uk)

  • Man refuses to drive 'No God' bus
    "A Christian bus driver has refused to drive a bus with an atheist slogan proclaiming "There's probably no God"."
    - with a video
    (BBC)

 

  • US boy takes car in school dash - with a short video
    "The parents of a six-year-old boy in the US have been charged with neglect after the boy drove their car for 10km in an attempt to get to school on time... The boy told police he learned to drive by playing video games."
    (BBC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTERACTIVE games :

  • Cars - interactive crosswords (BBC)

  • Railways - Interactive crosswords (BBC)

 

  • Airports - interactive crosswords (BBC)

 

  • Interactive crossword about transport - easy (BBC)

  • MAKE A TRUCK (enchantedlearning.com)
    " Click on the cab, middle, or rear of the truck to change that part.
    You can make weird trucks with silly names, or see how many real trucks you can find."



  • The little red ship. - Activity created by Renée Maufroid
    Click to read the story, then play the game.


 

  • Vehicles - scrambled words (manythings.org)

  • Transportation - word search (abroadlanguages.com)

 

  • Transport (learnenglish.de)
    Useful Vocabulary (with SOUND) - Build Up - Naturally Speaking - Dialogues - Games and Tests

 

Games TO PRINT :

  • Transport - word search - 3 levels (discoveryeducationalsoftware.co.uk)
  • Transport (learnenglish.de)
    Useful Vocabulary (with SOUND) - Build Up - Naturally Speaking - Dialogues - Games and Tests

 

Cartoons : Click on the pictures

Distracted driving
- Cartoons
(cagle.com)

 

 

Texting while flying
- a cartoon
(cagle.com)

 

 

Cruise Ship Catastrophe Cartoons
"Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index 
has a collection of cartoons
on the Italian cruise ship disaster, for which
the ship's captain is being blamed.
Several of the cartoonists use the accident as
an excuse to comment on the political situation
in the USA or in Europe..."
(englishblog.com)

 

 

Cartoon: Mac on Smoking in Cars
"This lovely cartoon by Mac from The Daily Mail relates to a call
by the British Medical Association for a ban
on smoking in cars (read briefing paper).
MPs are due to vote on the proposal next week..."
+ COMMENT + LESSON IDEA + LINKS
(englishblog.com)

 

 

Drink driving ends here
(ron-b.com)

 

 

Cell phones may cause cancer ?
"This cartoon by Gary Markstein
from the Copley News Service relates
to a recent World Health
Organization press release 
saying that using a cell phone may
raise the risk of developing cancer."
+ COMMENTS + LINKS
(jeffreyhill.typepad.com)

 

 

 

Sleeping on the job - Cartoons
(cagle.com)

 

Mac on... soaring petrol prices
(dailymail.co.uk)

 

 

Recovery Ambulance
"This cartoon by Andy Davey from The Sun was inspired by news that
ambulances across the UK are being adapted with wider stretchers and lifting
gear to cope with the increasing number of obese patients..."
(jeffreyhill.typepad.com)

Obese patients 'prompt ambulance fleet revamp'
- an article and a video
(BBC)

 

Airport security
(theatlantic.com)

 

TEXTING

Text while driving
(socialnomics.files.wordpress.com)

Texting - Reaction time
(caranddriver.com)

 

Steven Slater
(cagle.com)

See Song (and story)

 

5 Browsers and the Modes of
Transportation They Resemble
Do you agree ?
(collegehumor.com)

 

 

TEXTING

 

TEXTING

BODY SCANS

Orders from Homeland Security!
(cagle.com)

 

PLANE TERROR

New safety measures
(cagle.com)

 

How Fat is Too Fat to Fly?
(open.salon.com)

 

PILOTS MISS AIRPORT

Tap...Tap...
(cagle.com)

See AIRPORTS

 

DISTRACTED DRIVING
- cartoons
(cagle.com)

 


See Cartoons
(on the ROAD page)

 

TEXTING WHILE DRIVING
- CARTOONS
(cagle.com)


A tailback
(cartoonstock.com)

Synonyms: 
traffic jam, queue, line,
gridlock, logjam

 

A road hog ( = "un chauffard")
(krankyscartoons.com)

Overload
(cartoonstock.com)

 


Traffic - a cartoon
(businesstravellogue.com)

 

Road rage
(halfthedeck.com)

 

 

Single to the old stone bridge...
one way
(cartoonstock.com)

 


Metal detector
(cartoonstock.com)

 

Liquid terror
(cagle.msnbc.com)


Hijack
(aviation-humor.com)

 

Driving

No link
I was first
(napton-marina.co.uk)

Can I call you back ?
(absolutenglish-972)

Death
(absolutenglish-972)


See any cops ?
(veryfunnypics.com)

 

Gotta go now
(absolutenglish-972)

 

Old Noah's Cruise Line
(ntskeptics.org)

 


Videos :

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • KLM : Personal space experiment - a "nice campaign from KLM.
    They introduce their new and improved Europe Business Class. The most important new asset is ‘personal space’.
    To prove the human need for this personal space KLM conducted a social experiment, using candid camera.    "
    (creativecriminals.com)

 

 

 

 

 

  • 'Slab' - 2006 MAFMAD Winner 
    "Make a Film. Make a Difference (MAFMAD) is a short film competition supported by the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) in Victoria that
    encourages young film makers to submit an idea that'll make their mates think twice before taking risks on the road."
    - with a song : see the lyrics
    (YouTube)

 

 

 

 

  • OASIS OF THE SEAS :

    • See Types of transport

    • Largest cruise liner leaves port
      "The world's largest cruise liner, the Oasis of the Seas, has set sail for Miami from the Finnish shipyard where it was built.
      The 1,200 foot (360 metre) ship has a price tag of almost £1bn ($1.5bn) and was commissioned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.
      It is due to begin cruises out of Miami in December."
      (BBC)

 

  • Aboard the world's biggest cargo ship
    "The International Maritime Organization says moving goods by ship is 80-100 times more efficient than by air...
    Roger Harrabin was given a tour of the Estelle Maersk, the world's biggest container ship, which its owners claim is the most efficient in the world."
    (BBC)

 

 

  • Magic Car Wash (holylemon.com)
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  • Think! - Three Strikes (pre-9pm version)
    "Brand new 2008 public information film.
    We see how a man was killed in a car crash because, with no seatbelt to stop him, his internal organs kept travelling forward.
    This is a "clean" version of the film with no blood or gore, and is shown before 9pm (the so-called "watershed" for mature content in the UK.)"
    (YouTube)

    Think! - Three Strikes (post 9 version) - FOR TEACHERS (dft.gov.uk)

 

 

Interior Parts of an Airplane (expertvillage.com)


 

  • Inside The Airbus A380 - 20 March 2007
    "America is getting its first look at the biggest passenger airplane ever built.
    Kelly Wallace goes on a tour of Airbus A380 at JFK Airport in New York." (CBSNews.com)
    (YouTube)

 

 

  • American Airlines Flight 115
    "Passengers arriving from Heathrow airport in London described their journey to New York."
    (video.on.nytimes.com)

 

 

 

 

Crafts :

 

 

 

Songs : TRANSPORTS in GENERAL - BOAT - CAR - PLANE - TRAIN

 

  • No Cars Go by The Arcade Fire (sing365.com)
    "We know a place where no planes go
    (Hey!) No cars go...
    We know a place no space ships go
    We know a place where no subs go"
    - the VIDEO (YouTube) - UPDATED

 

 

    • Sailing by Rod Stewart :
      "I am sailing, I am sailing,
      I am flying, passing high clouds, to be with you,
      to be free."
      - with the       VIDEO (You Tube)

 

 

 

 


    • The Ballad of Steven Slater - VIDEO + LYRICS
      "Steven was a simple man
      Workin' on a plane
      But his working conditions 
      Were driving him insane..."
      (YouTube)



      Steven Slater  "is an American flight attendant who had an altercation with a passenger and abruptly exited via the evacuation slide aboard JetBlue Airways Flight 1052..." 
      (Wikipedia)



    • Angus and Julia Stone - "Big Jet Plane"
      (YouTube)
      + the LYRICS
      "Gonna take her for a ride on a big jet plane...
      Gonna hold you,
      Gonna kiss ya in my arms
      Gonna take you, 
      Away from home"   
      (songmeanings.net)



    • United Breaks Guitars by Dave Carroll
      - the LYRICS :
      "You broke it, you should fix it.
      You’re liable, just admit it.
      I should have flown with someone else
      Or gone by car,
      Cuz United Breaks Guitars."
      + the VIDEO
      (blog.takelessons.com)


    • The letter by Joe Cocker :
      "Give Me A Ticket For An Airoplane
      I Ain't Got Time To Take No Fast Train..."

 

  • TRAIN :

     

    • Bakerman by Back Laid :
      "The night train is coming
      Got to keep on running
      Baker man is baking bread
      You've got to cool down"

     

    • The letter by Joe Cocker :
      "Give Me A Ticket For An Airoplane
      I Ain't Got Time To Take No Fast Train..."

     

    • Runaway Train by Soul Asylum :
      "Runaway train, never going back
      Wrong way on a one-way track
      Seems like I should be getting somewhere
      Somehow I'm neither here nor there"