Teacher Guide
10mins - Introduction: Ask students a variety of questions to practice the prepositions at, on and in. When is your birthday? What time does class begin? When do you eat breakfast? What street do you live on?
- Remind the students: 'in' is the most general, 'on' is more specific and 'at' is the most specific.
05mins - Review the online homework. What topics were discussed? Was the homework easy, medium or difficult? Answer any questions the students may have.
05mins - Revision: Simple past. Have each student write one question in the simple past and ask/record the answer of another student.05mins - Review: Prepositions. Review with preposition flashcards. Have the students follow a set of commands to check for understanding. Ex: Place a pencil on your head. Stand next to your desk. Walk around the room. Etc.
10mins - Worksheet: 11 prepositions
10mins - Test: 11 reading practice - part 3
10mins - Game: Draw the directions. Each student is given a blank piece of paper and some coloured pencils. The teacher begins to give instructions for what the student should draw. Ex: Draw an elephant in the centre of the page. Draw a blue flower on it's head. Draw a piece of pizza next to the elephant...etc..
05mins - Warm down: goodbye see you next time, points
00mins - Homework: Complete the next section of the online homework.
1) As a practice, students should cover the answer options, read the text and try to put what word they think is appropriate in each space.
2) Students should look at words before and after the space to help them decide what word to write.
3) Tell students there are 9 pictures and words. 5 are correct and one is an example. The other 3 are distractors.
4) Students must tick one box for the correct name for the story after considering the story as a whole.
- river
- foot
- cry
- box
- afraid
- carried