People have things they need to move from here to there. Sometimes they carry them in their hands or on their heads or backs. Sometimes they need animals or vehicles to help. Learn to talk about transporting things.
Beginning Learners:
Learn different words for ways to carry things. Languages differ in the number of different words they use for the way you carry things.
| Carry in your hand | Carry on your back | Basket |
| Carry between two people | Bag | Plastic bag |
| Carry on your head or with a tumpline |
Learn words for other ways to transport things:
| Parcel post | Ship | |
| Crate | Container (as in shipping containers) | Freight |
| Shipment |
Suggested Learning Activities:
Activity 1: Use Look and Listen and Do to follow your LH’s directions about carrying different things in different ways. Use pictures or toy cars and trucks and trains to follow directions about shipping things in different ways.
Activity 2: Get your LH to tell a simple story about someone who transported different things in different ways. You act out the story as he tells it.
Intermediate Learners:
Activity 1: Ask your LH to describe some of the kinds of things you would typically carry in different ways. Record, and discuss anything you don’t understand. Listen to the recordings afterwards.
Activity 2: Learn a typical dialogue for mailing a parcel at the PO, or for arranging for someone to transport something for you.
