How Do You Come to School? – Grade 2 ESL PowerPoint Lesson
Grade Level: 2 | Duration: 40–60 Minutes | 60+ Slides
Teach young ESL learners how to talk about transportation and how they travel to school with this colorful, highly interactive PowerPoint lesson designed for Grade 2 students!
Students learn common transportation vocabulary, practice the question “How do you come to school?”, and build complete sentences using “I come to school…”. The lesson includes repetition practice, visual vocabulary activities, interactive PowerPoint games, speaking activities, and a simple writing task.
Perfect for:
- Grade 2 ESL
- Beginner English learners
- Young learner speaking classes
- Large public school ESL classrooms
- Small group ESL lessons
- Transportation vocabulary lessons
📚 Vocabulary Included
Students learn and practice:
• by bicycle
• by e-bike
• by car
• by taxi
• by metro
• by bus
• on foot
Chinese translations are included during the vocabulary teaching section to help beginner learners understand each transportation method quickly.
🗣️ Target Language
Students practice the question:
“How do you come to school?”
And answer using complete sentences:
“I come to school by bus.”
“I come to school by car.”
“I come to school by bicycle.”
“I come to school on foot.”
The lesson gradually moves students from learning individual vocabulary words to confidently using them in complete sentences.
🎮 Interactive Games & Activities
This lesson includes a variety of activities to keep young learners participating throughout the class:
• Flying Words Game – Review transportation vocabulary
• Fade Away Game – Remember and identify disappearing pictures
• Slow Reveal Game – Guess the transportation picture as it is revealed
• Guessing Game – Guess how different children come to school
• Click Away Game – Choose pictures and create sentences
• Spinning Wheel Game – Spin the wheel and say the matching sentence
• Speaking Practice – Repeated question-and-answer practice
• Writing Activity – Choose a transportation method, complete the sentence, and draw a picture
✏️ Writing Practice
Students finish the lesson by choosing how they come to school and completing:
“I come to school ______.”
They then draw a picture to show how they travel to school, giving them a simple and age-appropriate way to connect the new vocabulary to their own lives.
⭐ What Makes This Lesson Useful?
This lesson is designed specifically for young Grade 2 ESL learners, with large, colorful visuals and plenty of repetition before students are expected to produce complete sentences independently.
The progression is simple:
Learn the words → Review the words → Play games → Build sentences → Speak → Write
The variety of interactive PowerPoint activities makes it easy to turn one simple language target into a complete ESL lesson while giving students many opportunities to hear, say, recognize, and use the new vocabulary.
A fun, ready-to-use transportation lesson for teaching Grade 2 students to confidently answer: “How do you come to school?”
