Prepositions of place and time:

at, in, on
Revision test

Prepositions of Place Prepositions of Time

1 Put in the right preposition 3 Put in the correct preposition

1. ___ the kitchen 6. ____ the world 1. ___Christmas 6.____ April

2. ___ the floor 7. ____ the shops
3. ___ Japan 8. _____ Baker Street
4. ___ work 9. _____ the desk
5. ___ home 10. _____ 31 Baker Street
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2 Fill in the gaps with the suitable prepositions.
2. ___ the evening 7.___ Monday
3. ___ Christmas evening 8. ___ Monday morning
4. ___ the weekend 9. ___ 1997
5. ___the 1-st of April 10.___ night
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4 Add at, in or on where necessary.

1. There's some coffee __the shelf ___the cupboard.
2. My friend works___a chemist's___the town centre.
3. There's a cinema___the corner___the end of the
street.
4. On Sundays Mr. Smith stays___home and works
___the garden.
5. Our train arrived____York. Paul met us___the
station.
6. Does your train stop ____Krakow?
7. I live ____York ___42 East Street, and Jane
lives ____ West Street.
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1. Ann doesn't normally work ____the weekend, but
she had to work___ last Saturday.
2. Did he send you a card____your birthday?
3. The Browns went on holiday to Italy____
Easter and then again____ the summer.
4. Robert Burns was born___ 1759 and died___
1796.
5. She's going to a conference in Spain ___ a week.
6. Do you enjoy driving ____night?
7. I'm taking my driving test____4.50____
September 1st.
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5 Read the text and put in the right prepositions.

Jack and Mary live 1____ a small town 2___ California. Their parents have a house 3____ the beach
4_____ Santa Rose.
5____ summer they usually spend time there. They get up 6____ 10 o'clock 7___ the morning, have
breakfast and go swimming or surfing 8_____the sea. They have lunch 9_____ the beach.
10____ the afternoon the kids often play beach ball games 11 ____ the shore. 12___ the evening they have
dinner13 ____ home.
Later they go to meet their friends 14 ____ Sarah's Beach Cafe 15______ Sunrise Street. 16____ Sundays
they usually go to a disco 17 ____ night. They often go to bed 18___ about 11 or 12 o’clock 19___ the evening.
They like to spend summer 20___ California.
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