Everything you need to teach engaging ESL lessons on Prepositions. Worksheets, detailed lesson plans, flashcards, fun slideshows, games and more. Everything is fresh, colourful and modern. We have developed these top-quality resources over years of experience teaching English with students of all ages. These plans work well with groups of any size and can be used with students of CEFR levels A1 to B2 (roughly ages 7 and up).

Detailed Lesson Plans with answer keys

Each lesson plan includes:

An introduction discussion topic
Revision of a previous grammar point
An activity for pre-teaching the main lesson topic
Instructions for the worksheet (teacher guide)
A reinforcement game or activity
A warm-down task.
The answer key for the worksheet.

Worksheets

Prepositions 1 - Prepositions of Place (A1)
Prepositions 2 - Prepositions of Place, listening comprehension (A1/A2)
Prepositions 3 - Prepositions of Time (A2)
Prepositions 4 - Prepositions of Place, forming sentences (A1/A2)
Prepositions 5 - Prepositions of Place, forming sentences (A2)
Prepositions 6 - Prepositions of Movement, forming sentences (A2/B1)
Prepositions 7 - Prepositions of Movement (B1)
Prepositions 8 - Prepositions of Place and Movement (B1)
Prepositions 9 - classifying Prepositions (Place, Movement and Time) (B1/B2)

Activities with printables

Preposition sentence race - 20 colourful cards featuring different prepositions of movement with illustrations
Sentence Making - 15 colourful mini cards with vocabulary prompts for forming sentences with prepositions
Which One Battle - 28 cards with detailed living room scenes. Game instructions included.
Treasure Hunt - teamwork game for students to search around the school using preposition based clues
Activity pack - descriptions of 8 more activities based on prepositions

Themed Games

5 fun extension activities to reinforce your lessons. Great for group work. Playful and on theme.

1. Wordsearch - students have fun searching for prepositions words. A great way to review vocabulary and reinforce spelling!
2. Word scramble - test your students’ recall of prepositions and check their spelling knowledge.
3. Spelling - host regular spelling bees with some common prepositions and use this template to keep score. Add new prepositions when they become experts at these ones.
4. Crossword - students use prepositions of movement to complete the crossword puzzle. Let them team up if needed. A fun way to revise prepositions of movement that you’ve previously taught.
5. Mad Lib - a playful way to reinforce prepositions. Students write a list of prepositions then see how they fit in the story.
6. Bingo - a bingo card with a word bank of prepositions of placement and movement to choose from.
7. Battleships - students use prepositions of placement and movement as coordinates as they play this exciting game.
8. Mix and Match - students match the prepositions of movement and example to the illustration it matches.

Anchor charts and reference posters

9 pages of exciting, colourful reference guides, anchor charts and posters themed on prepositions to display in class or print for your students.

Brighten up your classroom and lessons with modern and fun visuals. Help your students remember some common prepositions and see patterns in meanings and uses. Print them as reference guides, or use the posters as a template for building anchor charts together with your students.

Prepositions Flashcards

Over 50 colourful verbs flashcards with common prepositions of placement and movement. Labels and matching illustration flashcards. Posters with complete sets included too for classroom displays. Great for regular practice in lessons and quick revision games. Laminate them and reuse them over and over.

Can be used in many ways, for example:

• Pop quizzes on identifying prepositions (written or illustrated on cards)
• Speed test - match the prepositions to the illustrations
• Shuffle them and hand them out randomly to students during conversation or writing tasks and challenge them to incorporate them naturally
• Play “Charades” - students act out the verbs and other students have to use the correct preposition to describe what they are doing.
• Memory - flip the cards over and take turns to select and reveal 2 cards, hoping to match a pair up.

Slideshow

Here are two prepositions-themed slideshows for engaging and interactive lessons. No-prep, animated PowerPoint presentations that will be sure to engage your students.

Our resources are fresh and modern with bright colours and great quality pictures. We've tested them with thousands of our own students and know how well they work!

The slideshows contain in total 21 slides covering:

• Slideshow 1 = Prepositions of Movement: forming 13 different sentences to match the colourful illustrations.
• Slideshow 2 = 8 slides about Prepositions of Placement using colourful and cute illustrations to demonstrate.

Special Project - Recipes

Baking with students is a delightful and educational activity. This recipe is for a traditional New Zealand sweet slice. Students will love learning about another culture as you work together. This activity works well with students of all ages, with English levels from A2 to B2.

We have carefully simplified all of our recipes to custom-make them for ESL learners. We've taken out all unnecessary vocabulary and kept to level-appropriate terms. You'll find more recipes and other creative projects on our website (register for free).

The project includes the recipe and a worksheet with some useful kitchen vocabulary to match to definitions.

This is a NO OVEN recipe so can be made in the classroom and then popped into a fridge to set.

Adapt the verbal instructions to target key vocabulary (e.g. verbs, nouns, prepositions etc). For example, if you're working on Prepositions, emphasise them in your instructions:

Before starting, wash your hands
Take all the ingredients out of the cupboards
Put a bowl on the bench top
Pour the coconut into the bowl
Mix the lollies through the mixture
Put the cake into the fridge

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