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Prepositions of place
60-90 min
Standard
Beginner
Overview
This beginner-level (A1) lesson is based on the concept of a local community noticeboard. Through exploring these snippets, students learn essential town centre vocabulary and practice using prepositions of place (in, on, under, next to, and between) to describe the locations of public services, and buildings.
During the lesson, your students will develop their reading comprehension skills and express their opinions about their town. They will also participate in a variety of interactive speaking and writing tasks, including matching prepositions to a diagram and describing the locations of different places on a map.
Our standard lessons follow a consistent six-stage flow: warm-up, a presentation based on real content (video, text or images), a contextual language focus stage, controlled practice, a free practice session, and a final homework task.
Each lesson includes a printable student worksheet and teacher’s guide with answer keys. For digital classrooms, we provide an editable Google Slides e-lesson, that is also compatible with PowerPoint.
Warm-up
The purpose of this stage is to activate your students' existing knowledge and prepare them for the lesson's theme.
Activity 1: Students look at an illustration of a town centre to identify and write down the names of any buildings or locations they already know.
Presentation
During this part of the lesson, we will introduce the main content, presenting new language and concepts through video, text or images.
Activity 2: Before reading the notices, the students review the images and predict the topics of the pinned notices before reading the text.
Activity 3: Students read notices from a local community noticeboard to locate specific details and complete short-answer comprehension questions.
Activity 4: Students discuss personal preferences regarding the services and events found on the community noticeboard.
Language focus
This stage of of the lesson includes a contextual, interactive activity designed for presenting the target language.
Activity 5: Students analyse contextual examples of prepositions of place taken from the community noticeboard and use a visual position diagram to discover the spatial rules of in, on, under, next to, and between.
Practice
To reinforce their understanding of the new language or concepts introduced in the lesson, the students will work on a couple of controlled practice activities.
Activity 6: Students read sentences describing different town layouts and circle the correct preposition of place.
Activity 7: Students apply the target prepositions to their immediate environment by producing oral or written sentences that describe the locations of various objects within the classroom.
Activity 8: The students work in pairs to ask and answer questions about the locations of the different places in town.
Let's talk
We move into free practice for this stage, where the students apply the language in more open-ended, communicative activities.
Activity 9: Students work in pairs to discuss the layout of public places and services within their town.
Activity 10: The students will work in pairs to discuss their habits and personal relationships with various locations in their town.
Homework
Finally, we'll encourage students to extend their learning outside of the classroom to reinforce the language and concepts covered during the lesson.
Homework task: The students write a short description of their town layout using the target language from today's lesson.
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