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Aims: Prepositions of place
in, on, under, next to, where is..?
Analysis: A preposition usually goes before a noun often to show where things are in relation to each other. You will need to make sure you show the students where in the sentence the preposition goes. Careful to keep your teacher talking time down and make sure you only use language that students will understand.
Lead in
1. Show two common classroom items and ask what they are (Pen, chair, bag etc.). Get students to think up and list as many classroom items as possible within 1 minute.
2. Feedback (only write up the items that can be moved on, in or under, next to each other)
Presentation
3. Put a pencil on top of a chair and elicit the target structure by asking “Where is the (pencil)?” Continue using other items and prepositions.
4. Drill the structure once you have elicited and/or modelled it. Elicit the question form and drill this.
5. Don’t forget to write the target language on the board.
Controlled practice
5. Set up pair work. Students use a pen, chair etc. to position the items and ask and answer questions. Demonstrate by doing it with a student first or get a pair to demonstrate.
6. Feedback and write-up some of the examples.
Free practice
7. It will be quite difficult for you to do a free practice at this level, but you could try to get students to describe where certain things (TV, chair, etc) are in their living room at home. You would need to generate some ideas first, perhaps do your own living room first and students ask Where is the TV? etc
8. Feedback from your activity by asking what they found out about their partner’s living room.
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