Ask another student to choose a card from the container and read it aloud. Choose a student to help you model the procedure at the board.

If you choose the correct preposition and use it correctly in a sentence, you will earn a point for your team.” I will decide who hit the preposition first, and that person must then form a sentence correctly using the words on the card and the preposition. The goal is for you to decide which preposition goes along with what I have said, and be the first person to hit the preposition you think is correct with your swatter/pointer. I will pull out a card and read what it says. Each person at the board will get a fly swatter/pointer to use. To play the game, each team will send one member at a time to the board.

Say, “In this container there are cards with days, months, dates, years, or times on them.

Leave a bit of space vertically between each of the words.

In the middle of the board, write the prepositions in, at, and on in a column.

Tell students they will play a game to review the prepositions in, at, and on.

Use these descriptions and examples included here to review the prepositions with your students before starting each activity. This month’s Teacher’s Corner will require students to use prepositions of time, place, and movement to complete different tasks.

(Verb) (preposition) (name of object or place). They are often used in the imperative to give directions from one place to another. These prepositions are used to discuss movement to or from a place. The restroom is between the office and the playground. The book is between the cup and the pencils. The (object or place) is between the (other objects or places). The (object or place) is between the (other object or place) and the (other object or place). One special case is the preposition between, which is used with two objects. The students are in the middle of the hallway. The (object or place) is (preposition) the (other object or place). These prepositions are used to tell where something is located in relation to something else. While + activities taking place at the same timeĭuring + the time something happened (noun) These prepositions are used to discuss when events take place, as well as to talk about multiple events happening at the same time. To begin, let’s take note of the prepositions used in this month’s activities. This month, we’ll take a look at many different classroom activities that provide learners with opportunities to practice using some of the most common prepositions in English. Therefore, teachers should devote time to practicing these words in the classroom. Despite this, prepositions are very common in spoken and written English. Many prepositions cannot be defined in the exact way that other parts of speech or vocabulary in English can, which makes them tricky to teach. Prepositions can often be confusing for students learning English.

Prepositions of time list