Getting Around ESL Games, Activities & Role-Plays
Let's Take the Subway

ESL Subway Travel Activity - Speaking: Information Gap, Communicative Practice - Pair Work
In this free subway travel activity, students practice asking for and giving directions using a subway system map to help them learn language for getting around on a train or subway. In pairs, students...
Madrid to Barcelona

ESL Train Travel Role-Play - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions, Sentence Completion, Communicative Practice - Pair Work
In this engaging train travel role-play activity, students ask and answer questions about rail travel information and practice booking train tickets. In pairs, one student...
Could you slow down, please?

ESL Taxi Language Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Pair Work
In this useful taxi language game, students race to match language with taxi-related situations. In pairs, students take turns turning over a situation card and reading out the taxi-related situation. Both students then race to find the appropriate taxi...
Getting Around Questionnaire

ESL Travel Questions Activity - Speaking: Unscrambling, Asking and Answering Questions - Group and Pair Work
In this insightful travel questionnaire activity, students form travel questions about different forms of local transport and then ask and answer the questions with a partner. First, in two groups, students put...
Taxi for Two

ESL Taxi Vocabulary Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Matching, Forming Sentences, Communicative Practice - Pair work
In this creative taxi vocabulary game, students match words related to travelling by taxi with their definitions and then try to make a sentence a passenger or taxi driver would say using the word. In pairs...
The Bus Stop

ESL Bus Travel Activity - Speaking: Unscrambling, Asking and Answering Questions, Matching - Pair Work
In this free bus travel activity, students practice asking and answering questions related to taking the bus. First, in two groups, students unscramble words to form bus travel questions. Next, students...
Bus and Train Board Game

ESL Bus and Train Travel Board Game - Vocabulary: Multiple Choice, Guessing - Group Work
In this productive bus and train board game, students practice vocabulary related to bus and train travel. In groups, students take turns picking up a card and asking the player to their right a bus or train...
On the Road

ESL Driving Vocabulary Games - Vocabulary and Speaking: Matching, Pelmanism, Forming Sentences, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work
Here are two useful driving vocabulary games that help students practice words related to driving. Students begin by playing a pelmanism game to practice...
Right on Track

ESL Train Travel Game - Vocabulary: Matching, Forming Sentences - Pair Work
Here is a fast-paced train travel vocabulary game to help students practice language related to travelling by train. In pairs, students race to line up sentence beginning cards and match each one with a suitable ending card. When pairs have lined...