The city is a big place, and explaining the location of a building and how to get to it can seem quite challenging to English learners. Our new Prepositions of Direction lesson makes it easier with picture dictionaries, maps, and lots of practice exercises. (more…)
Has your hometown changed in the past 50 years? In this week’s Spotlight lesson, Sasquatch Hills: Simple Past Reading, students practice using the simple past tense, the simple present tense, and prepositions of place. (more…)
When is a good time to study prepositions? There are three main prepositions of time: at, in, and on. All three are thoroughly covered in our new grammar lesson on Prepositions of Time! (more…)
Halloween is coming soon! Have you tried Sprout English’s Halloween-themed Word Bank lesson? In this lesson, your students will learn some Halloween vocabulary in a fun way. We also have a fun NEW lesson on Prepositions of Place. Try both of these lessons before you try this follow-up Halloween listening activity.
In, on, between, across from—many English language learners struggle with prepositions. Help is here! Our brand-new grammar lesson focuses on Prepositions of Place, and we’ve included fun illustrations of a living room and a kitchen to help students visualize each preposition.
This 13-page lesson starts off with a helpful Picture Dictionary so that students can easily understand what each preposition means. The Grammar Notes also provide helpful tips. A variety of exercises gives your learners plenty of practice, including matchup, drawing, multiple-choice, pair work, speaking, and writing tasks. By the end of this lesson, your students will have a solid understanding of the most common prepositions of place and related sentence patterns. (more…)
There are a lot of prepositions in English and many of them have multiple functions. Prepositions were usually at the top of my students’ troublesome grammar lists! Breaking prepositions up into categories (such as place and time) often helps students learn and remember them more easily. Our Spotlight lesson this week was our Word Bank lesson on Prepositions of Place, so I decided to create some worksheets to practice two of the most common prepositions: IN and ON. I divided the worksheets into two pages—the first is a basic exercise on places, and the second is one on transportation (because in my experience, students get quite confused by vehicles—in a car vs. on a bus, for example).
So many prepositions, so little time! English language learners tend to struggle with prepositions because of the wide variety of meanings and uses. Breaking prepositions up into types can help! The focus this week is on prepositions of place in our Word Bank lesson on Prepositions.
This lesson contains eight beautifully illustrated pages that include a colorful picture dictionary, matchup, word choice, word search, word scramble, and spelling bee. Discussion questions at the end allow your students to practice prepositions in context! (more…)
“Come out, come out, wherever you are!”
Do your students enjoy playing hide-and-go-seek? Do you know how to make this game educational? Hide-and-go-seek is the perfect game for practicing prepositions of place. If you haven’t already introduced these little words and phrases to your English learners, check out Tanya’s useful post. It’s full of teaching tips on prepositions of place (and directions), including this FREE handy handout.
After you’ve introduced prepositions of place to your students, you can review them by showing this funny series of visuals. Simply ask this question: Where is the child hiding? Go over some of the different prepositions from the pictures.
under the bucket, behind the curtain, in the cupboard, behind the towel, beside the crib…
Our Spotlight lesson this week, New Town, is all about maps, prepositions of place, and giving directions. In my experience, textbooks often present a map and expect students to generate directions without much guidance. My students would often make many little mistakes, such as forgetting the article “the” before the building names and forgetting secondary prepositions (such as “to the left of”). I found that reviewing prepositions of place first was helpful, followed by providing students with a lot of examples of directions. With the help of our talented designer Robyn, I created a worksheet of common prepositions and directions that your students can use for easy reference. After reviewing these lists, give our Spotlight lesson a try!
