LESSON PLAN: Where is it?

TIME: 55 minutes
FOCUS: Prepositions of place and furniture vocabulary
LEVEL: Intermediate beginner

MAIN
OBJECTIVES

Students will be able to use prepositions of place and furniture

vocabulary

MATERIALS
NEEDED

Furniture crossword, Prepositions of Place flashcards,

Paper cat cutouts, Gap fill exercise, Room pictures A and B
Soft toy (cat is best).

LANGUAGE

Prepositions of place: in, on, under, behind, in front of, above,

near, next to
Furniture vocabulary

WARM-UP
ACTIVITY

Bring a soft toy. Stand in the middle of the room or get the
students into a circle. Introduce the cat, tell students its name
and where it is from.
Point to a chair. Ask the students what it is called. Put the cat
on the chair. Ask the students where it is.
Put the cat under the chair. Ask where it is.
Put the cat in various locations around the room and ask where
it is. Elicit the nouns (door, window, table, board, boy, girl, etc.)
then the prepositions of place. Use only the prepositions of
place from the Language box.

5 minutes

PRESENTATION
5-10 minutes

Show the students the preposition flashcards and ask them

where the cat is. Students shout out answers and the teacher
writes them on the board.
Write on the board:
For example:
The cat is ________on_________________ the
______table_______.
The cat is _________________________ the
_________________.

Explain that the preposition of place always comes before the

object noun (i.e. on the table, under the chair).
Preposition of place + noun
COMMUNICATION
PRACTICE
ACTIVITY
10 minutes

Paper Cat
Copy a number of cats and cut around them so they are a cat
shape.
Put the students into pairs or groups of 4 or 5.
Give each group a paper cat and a set of Prepositions of Place
cards. One student picks a card, reads it to the student with
the cat and he must put it in the place written on the card.

COMMUNICATION Gap fill.

PRACTICE
ACTIVITY
Put the students in pairs and give everyone a copy of Gap fill
5 10 minutes
worksheet.
Students can work in pairs and check each others work.
PRODUCTION
ACTIVITY
5-10 minutes

Sit students in pairs, back to back.

Give out Room A picture to one student and Room B picture
to the student sitting behind him.
Student A must describe where his cats are and Student B
must draw them on his picture. When Student B has drawn the
four cats on his picture, they check Student As picture.

WRAP-UP
ACTIVITY
10 minutes

Dominoes.
Put students into groups of 3 or 4.
Give each group one set of dominoes. Each student takes an
equal number of cards (i.e. 4 students get 4 cards each). One
student puts down a domino. The next student sees if he has
the picture that matches the sentence on the previous domino.
The next student does the same.
If the student cannot go, the turn goes to the next student in
the group.
The game is over when the students have used all their
dominoes and formed a complete square with the dominoes.