Teacher Guide
Demonstrate each of the prepositions of movement listed. Review the past continuous tense (refer to previous worksheets). Help the students to write sentences using the words provided. Have them read the sentences out loud and indicate the movement described.
10mins: Introduction - Beginner questions 'What's your name, how old are you, where are you from, have you got any brothers or sisters? What's your favourite day of the week? What do you usually do on this day? What's one thing you like? One think you don't like?
10mins: Review: Prepositions of placement - in, on, under, in front of, behind, between. Use a ball to demonstrate these prepositions, then ask each student to demonstrate a preposition.
10mins: Pre-teach: Prepositions of movement - towards, away from, off, onto, into, out of, around. Demonstrate each, and ask each student to demonstrate one.
10mins: Worksheet: page 14 - prepositions of movement
15mins: Activity: Split the class into teams of two. Each team must hide a 'treasure' and write instructions for how to find it from a specified starting point. The teams will then switch treasure maps and follow the directions to discover the treasure.
05mins: Warm Down: Goodbye + points. Pack up supplies, help students prepare to leave and straighten out the classroom.
Possible solutions:
- The spaceship was flying towards the moon.
- The comet was moving away from the planet.
- The alien was jumping off the rock.
- The satellite was orbiting around the planet.
- The spaceman was running into the spaceship.
- Stars were going out of the galaxy.