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Prepping for Prepositions! A Mini Lesson for Teaching Prepositions to ESL Students Lindsay Guenter ESL 502 Unit 9 Grammar Mini Lesson
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Prepping for Prepositions!

A Mini Lesson for Teaching Prepositions to ESL Students

Lindsay GuenterESL 502

Unit 9 Grammar Mini Lesson

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PrepositionsA preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases

to other words in a sentence.

The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.

Most prepositions tell WHERE or WHEN, or SHOW POSSESSION.

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WHERE prepositionsPrepositions like in, beside, above, and out tell

WHERE, and are usually used with nouns or pronouns.

Bold words are the prepositions. Underlined phrases are the prepositional phrases.

"The man sat beside his wife.

He put his arm around her shoulder.

Then he kissed her on the cheek."

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WHEN prepositionsPrepositions like after, until, during, and before

all tell WHEN.

"Mr. Susi had an important meeting until three o'clock.

During the meeting, he received a text message.

It was his wife. She asked him to come straight home after work."

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POSSESSION PrepositionsThe prepositions of and to are used to show

POSSESSION, or belonging to.

"This book belongs to Chris.

The cover of the book is torn."

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Grammar RockThis link displays School House Rock’s segment

on prepositions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4jIC5HLBdM

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WHERE Preposition ErrorsMany ELLs have difficulty using appropriate

prepositions regarding location.

For example, I am going on the car. (I am going in the car.)We had a birthday party on the house. (We had a

birthday party in the house).

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WHERE Preposition Lesson Hook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDvaryY8M4 This video displays some of the most common prepositions that ELLs struggle to use accurately.

In order to catch the students attention, I will bring in a sturdy box and we will replicate the video. I will give students an opportunity to act out the prepositions and sing the song.

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WHERE Preposition Mini Lesson Materials

Materials – Copies of local street maps, Paper, Pencil

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WHERE PrepositionsMini Lesson Part 1

PART 1Hand out the maps and select a

place (without telling the students what it is).

Write 2 pieces of information about this place on the board.

It is on Perkiomen Avenue and next to the Holiday Inn.

Tell the students to locate the place and tell you it's name.

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WHERE PrepositionsMini Lesson Part 2

PART 2Distribute paper and instruct the students to

form pairs and to find and write the locations of 5 places on the paper like this:

For example,1. 16th & Haak Elementary School

It's on the corner of 16th Street and Haak Street.

2. Marriot HotelIt’s on Penn Avenue and opposite City Park.

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WHERE PrepositionsMini Lesson Part 3

PART 3After the groups have finished, collect

the papers and select 2 students to be "game show hosts".

Share the collected pieces of paper between the hosts and tell them to read out the locations to the class (as the teacher did in PART 1).

The pairs of students now become teams and when any team shouts out the correct location give their team a point.