8 Mar.2014

Two days ago we encountered a simple exercise in our textbook. Students’ task was to fill in the missing prepositions. Even though my students are strong lower intermediate students who can understand a lot of English and speak quite fluently, they were not able to use the correct prepositions. Although the students met the adjectives and prepositions many time before, they could not use them. So I have created this post where I will teach the adjectives and prepositions.
This post contains only a few adjectives but I believe it is better if you always use a few adjectives with the correct preposition than if you know a lot of adjectives and use the prepositions wrongly.

Adjectives and prepostions – infographic

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Adjectives and prepostions – games

I have been using games in class for quite a long time, but I never fail to be surprised how easily students learn the correct answers to the questions just because they want to win the game.

The first game is called Teacher Invaders and your task is to shoot all the invaders and complete the sentences with the correct prepositions.

Teacher Invaders game

The second game is called On target and your task is to shoot as many bad ducks as you can. You can shoot a bottle too and get a bonus. Give it a try.
On Target game

18 Comments

Gbenga James

please I have like to improve my english speaking ability. I hope you can send me guide on how to go about it. I have more problems with the use of prepositions and adjectives. For example; I don't know which one of this statement is correct. 1. In a place 2. At a place 3. In a stadium 4. At the stadium. Am looking in the wrong bag and am looking at the wrong bag

08/03/2014 at 6:31 am
MEKONNEN

I have one question,what do we mean by:"HOW DO YOU DO?"

08/03/2014 at 6:58 am
Mohammed Hassan

I am an English teacher and I want to know more about language

08/03/2014 at 7:35 am
Zdenda

Nothing. We are just polite and the question has no meaning.

08/03/2014 at 8:17 am
Laxmi singh

i want to improve my English. please guide me for it.

08/03/2014 at 8:30 am
xasanyogol

I have more problems with the use of prepositions and adjectives. so.will you given me more information about preposition and extra ..........

08/03/2014 at 8:36 am
Zdenda

There are two posts on prepositions at, in and on. https://engames.eu/prepositions-place/ https://engames.eu/prepositions-at-in-on-time/

08/03/2014 at 10:14 am
liz martin

Hi Gbenga. All your statements are correct but have slightly different meanings. AT a place - usually refers to WHERE a place is (e.g. let's meet at the stadium) IN a place - usually refers to what happens INSIDE that place (e.g. football is played in the stadium) Looking AT the bag - means you are looking at the bag in general, not inside it Looking IN the bag - looking INSIDE the bag. Hope this is helpful.

08/03/2014 at 10:25 am
Carol

A collocation dictionary can be handy! It helps me a lot!

08/03/2014 at 12:09 pm
xasanyogol

I would like to practice English grammar or to get model book grammar for easier understanding way

08/03/2014 at 6:54 pm
Sarbari Sarkar

the more sentences we will come across everyday, we will be able to pick up all types of grammar application. Newspaper is the best option to learn English language.

12/03/2014 at 12:09 pm
David

Last 5 years my English is well but this time my English is bad because of during that time i never used English. How can i take my English back with only 6 months? i hope you help me. Thanks

15/03/2014 at 7:21 am
molli

thanks alot for these useful mindmaps they help me in my teaching

22/03/2014 at 10:34 am
Shaman Setu

Thanks for very lovely game which is full of knowledge.

20/04/2014 at 11:25 am
jacques

can the games on this page be seen on a separate page?

26/08/2014 at 3:13 pm
Zdenda

Not at this time. If there are more demands for this, I will add a button to allow this. However, you can make it bigger in your browser.

26/08/2014 at 4:34 pm
Chris

"Late TO something" is American usage (and probably Canadian too). In Bristish English, the original answer is correct: "Late FOR something". On a similar note, Americans always say "different than" whereas, in British English, it should be "different from". Incidentally, Charles Svoboda refers to this text as a sentence: "“I can’t ______ now, I am late to the _______”. In fact, this should be two separate sentences (separated by a full-stop (period) or, preferably, a colon – since the second sentence is adding more information to that in the first sentence). So, in British English, it should be either “I can’t ______ now. I am late for the _______” or “I can’t ______ now: I am late for the _______”.

19/02/2016 at 1:49 am
Zdenda

Thank you for your valuable feedback.

19/02/2016 at 5:16 pm