ON

OVER OPPOSITE NEXT TO

BETWEEN

ABOVE
INSIDE
BESIDE (BY)

BEHIND
AMONG OUTSIDE BELOW (beneath)

IN
IN FRONT OF
AGAINST UNDER

UP

DOWN ACROSS
IN the MIDDLE

FROM A

TO B INTO OUT OF
ROUND

40 PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE AND MOVEMENT with Mr EGGIE

:-D
 ON THE TOP OF

BEFORE AFTER AWAY FROM

THROUGH ALONG PAST AROUND

ONTO

OFF

WITH WITHOUT

40 PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE AND MOVEMENT with Mr EGGIE

:-D
Translate: in the middle MATCH OPPOSITES:
above inside
across into above – below, after – before, .....................
after next to
against off
......................................................................................
along on
on the top of ......................................................................................
among
onto ......................................................................................
around
opposite
aside ......................................................................................
out of
away from outside ......................................................................................
before over
behind ......................................................................................
past
below round ......................................................................................
beneath through ......................................................................................
beside to
......................................................................................
between towards
by under ......................................................................................
down up ......................................................................................
from with
without ......................................................................................
in
........
in front of
 OPPOSITE
UNDER NEXT TO BESIDE (BY)
BELOW (beneath)
BETWEEN
ABOVE ON THE TOP OF

AGAINST
ON

OVER

UP AMONG IN the MIDDLE

INSIDE IN
OUTSIDE

AROUND ROUND
DOWN
INTO
BEHIND

OUT OF

ONTO IN FRONT OF
ACROSS
OFF

FROM A
ALONG PAST
ACROSS

TO B
BEFORE AFTER

THROUGH
AWAY FROM
WITH WITHOUT

40 PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE AND MOVEMENT with Mr EGGIE

A

Fill in the prepositions.

Write a story / sentences with prepositions inside the egg.
Fill in:
PREPOSITIONS: PREPOSITIONS:
above above
across across
after after
against against
along along
among among
around around
aside aside
away from away from
before before
behind behind
below below
beneath beneath
beside beside
between between
by by
down down
from from
in in
in front of in front of
in the middle in the middle
inside inside
into into
next to next to
off off
on on
on the top of on the top of
onto onto
opposite opposite
out of out of
outside outside
over over
past past
round round
through through
to to
towards towards
under under
up up
with with
without without
 PREPOSITION WORDSEARCH

A E F  

M P D I R G  

O W N I Y T O V O V E R  

N I W Y S X T N A G A I N S T  

G T O A Y E F T T B A R O U N D B O E  

H D W P N B U M E P D B E T W E E N H  

S A R O P O A N F A O N I Z L F F T T  

D G M E H O E G F S F U O A T U O  

R K T T A S F T W O C Y R  

A I H T F O I Z C R G  

W W H H A W T K O  

O T N I B S O E S  

T J F K I A E Z S  

ACROSS AROUND BESIDE INTO OPPOSITE ROUND

AFTER AWAY BETWEEN NEXT OUT TOWARDS
AGAINST BELOW DOWN OFF OVER WITH
AMONG BENEATH FRONT ONTO PAST WITHOUT

And now write some sentences with prepositions:

Dominoes, Memory Cards - different – http://www.eslprintables.com/printable.asp?id=161361#this

TEACHER’S NOTES – GAMES:

MOVING PREPOSITIONS GAME

Ask students to bring photographs from magazines with people in a certain pose. Students glue
the photos on cardboard cards. Shuffle them.

Student A picks one card.

His job is to give you instructions, so you (teacher) will look like the person on the photo. “Sit/lie
down on the table. Put your left hand under your head. Put your left hand on your stomach. Put
your right foot under your left ankle. .....”

It is a great fun! There can be one player (instructor) or two or a group.

It can be played as a pair-work, student A gives instructions, student B obeys. :-D

ABSOLUTELY FUNNY. You will laugh your head off. :-D

DRAW A PICTURE - Similar game we used to play at school.

Revise math vocabulary – a square, a rectangle, a triangle, a circle, a oval, ... + a star, a line, a
heart, a flower etc...

Student A draws a simple picture and give instructions to student B. Student B draws the
picture. In the end they compare. SUPERB FUN!

eg: draw a pig, a dog, a cat, a bird, a house, a robot, a tree, a garden .......

Bizarre picture – draw a picture/photo of your room. Place 10 objects on strange places. eg:
There is a T-shirt on the lamp. There is a plant under the bed....

Students read a graded reader and underline all prepositions. Then write down the phrases
or whole sentences. The student with the highest number of VARIOUS prepositions WINS.

Gimme the Answer – S1 picks an answer card (On the desk.) S1 asks questions, and waits
for the right answer (eg: Where is the pen? “(It’s) ON the desk.”)

Build a castle – ss make a castle from various items, a desk, chairs, bags, books, plants.
Group A give instructions, group B builds... The most beautiful girl hides inside the castle. In the
end they make a photo.
Scavenger hunt – hide several objects, group A finds the objects, hides them and gives
instructions to group B (or student B) – left, right, up, down, step aside, under, behind, in,
against, by, on, between, above, near, to the left of...

Treasure – Group A writes hints on small pieces of paper. eg: Go to the window and look under
the plant. The student finds the next message under the plant. (8-15 messages, the last one is
hidden under the treasure (a bag of sweets...)

MORE GAME IDEAS :

http://edition.tefl.net/ideas/grammar/fun-activities-prepositions-of-time/

Preposition boardgames – Memory, Bingo, Battleship, Tictactoe, checkers, UNO, snap

game....

More games – rules, ideas:

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets/grammar/prepositions/

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets/grammar/past-tenses/past-prepositions-snap/

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets/yl/body/strange-body-positions/ body prep.

ONLINE GAMES:

http://www.marks-english-school.com/games/b_prepmed.html ONLINE GAME

http://englishflashgames.blogspot.com/2008/06/prepositions-of-place-game.html room

http://www.tcet.com/eaonline/FlashedESL/CatsMX.swf move pc mouse 1st, then click!

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/englishfile/elementary/i_games/theanteatergame/gam
es_ant01/ anteater eats correct preps – HOLD spacebar!

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/preposition_desert/index_pre.html - preposition or “not

preposition” game – nice sentences about kangaroos

http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/k/words.php?f=prepositions HANGman

http://www.garfield.com/fungames/scavengerhunt/scavengerhunt.html - just game

ONLINE EXERCISES:

http://home.nordnet.fr/~rmaufroid/pupitre/prepositions/prepositionslien.htm 17 exs

http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/1665

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/playing-with-prepositions-
through-34.html?tab=3#tabs many preps in poetry
SONG w/o prepositions:

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/worksheets/songs/preps-i-will-survive/ preposition Song

http://www.free-puzzles.net/word-search-puzzles/word-search-form.php

house wordsearch, designed by me

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ALL PREPOSITIONS: close to opposite
for int. ss – TRANSLATE: concerning other than (=except for)
aboard considering out
about despite out of
above down outside
absent (=except for) during over
according to except past
across except for pending = past
after excepting per
against excluding plus
ahead of failing (=except for) regarding
all over for respecting
along for all (=despite) round
alongside from similar to
among in since
around in between than
as in front of thanks to (=because of)
aside including through
at inside throughout
away from instead of till
because of into to
before less toward
behind like towards
under
below minus underneath
beneath near unlike
beside until
near to unto
besides next to up
between of
upon
up to
beyond off versus (opposite)
by on via
with
circa on top of within
close by onto without