Cars and accidents
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This collection of classroom materials explores the language of cars and accidents through engaging, hands-on activities. Students not only learn the vocabulary for car parts but also see how these words behave in context—through collocations, adjectives, and verbs that naturally co-occur with them.
The lesson sequence moves from vocabulary discovery to communication practice. Learners label car diagrams, complete gap fills, and build collocation tables before taking part in role-play simulations and slip-swapping interviews about road incidents. Each activity reinforces the vocabulary from a new angle, helping students internalise grammar patterns and lexical relationships rather than memorising isolated words. |
Driving through Uzbek desert en route to the almost non-existent Aral Sea. Summer 2020.
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These resources work equally well for upper-intermediate general English classes and for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) contexts such as transport, logistics, or insurance communication.
- Car collocations page – Explore verbs, adjectives that commonly combine with parts of the car. These combinations are the core of clauses and helping learners develop both fluency and accuracy.
- Parts of the car labelling task – Students draw and label a car, then add adjectives and verbs that typically describe or act on each part. Students are encouraged to explore SkELL's word sketches of the target words. See windscreen.
- Role-play – Students act out a post-accident scenario, practising question forms, narrative tenses, and functional language for describing events.
- Slip-swapping interview activity – Learners move around the classroom exchanging and answering questions about driving experiences and accidents. There are two sets here: fun questions and mechanical questions. Teachers can mix and match them if they wish. See the Slip Swapping webpage for more information about this activity.
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