Prepositions of place
Overview
Welcome to our introductory lesson on prepositions of place: next to, between, and opposite. This lesson will be set in a zoo, making it an engaging and immersive experience for younger students. Using this context, they will understand how to use these prepositions to accurately describe spatial relationships.
To begin this lesson plan, we offer a boardwork suggestion that creates a visually impactful introduction to the target language. After that, we will engage students in some low-resource activities where they can create and discuss their own zoo, using the prepositions they have just learned. Finally, we will conclude with an interactive classroom game that reinforces the concepts taught in this lesson.
Lesson Outline
Classroom activities
Use of the board
The students will use the layout of a zoo to learn some fundamental prepositions of place.
Start by adding the prepositions of place to the top of the board and elicit their translations in the students' L1. Next, tell them that you are going to create a zoo and that you need their help deciding which animals to add, and where to put them. Finally, work through some simple questions, eliciting responses that use the prepositions of place.
Zoo designs
Students will design and draw a zoo in their notebooks before writing prepositional statements that describe it.
Tell me about your zoo
A follow-on speaking activity where students answer questions about their zoo.
Classroom games
Build a zoo
Students have to move into the correct place, based on a prepositional statement.
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