Prepositions: Locators of Place (POST 5)

Instruction

Read the following reading material. 
Pick a partner.
Write down the location of objects in your bedroom (bed, lamp, fan, table etc.) in your exercise book. Then read it out to him or her.
Your partner will then draw your bedroom in accordance to the clues given.
Change role when you have finished.
Head of the class will collect all the drawings to be put on my table in the staff room.
As your homework, produce a mind map for this topic of locators of place.

Reading Material

A preposition describes a relationship between other words in a sentence. In itself, a word like "in" or "after" is rather meaningless and hard to define in mere words.

For instance, when you do try to define a preposition like "in" or "between" or "on," you invariably use your hands to show how something is situated in relationship to something else.

Prepositions are nearly always combined with other words in structures called prepositional phrases. Prepositional phrases can be made up of a million different words, but they tend to be built the same: a preposition followed by a determiner and an adjective or two, followed by a pronoun or noun (called the object of the preposition).

This whole phrase, in turn, takes on a modifying role, acting as an adjective or an adverb, locating something in time and space, modifying a noun, or telling when or where or under what conditions something happened.

Consider the professor's desk and all the prepositional phrases we can use while talking about it.

You can sit before the desk or in front of the desk. The professor can sit on the desk or behind the desk, and then his feet are under the desk or beneath the desk. He can stand beside the desk, before the desk, between the desk and you, or even on the desk. If he's clumsy, he can bump into the desk or try to walk through the desk. Passing his hands over the desk or resting his elbows upon the desk, he often looks across the desk and speaks of the desk or concerning the desk as if there were nothing else like the desk. Because he thinks of nothing except the desk, sometimes you wonder about the desk, what's in the desk, what he paid for the desk, and if he could live without the desk. You can walk toward the desk, to the desk,around the desk, by the desk, and even past the desk while he sits at the desk or leans against the desk.

All of this happens, of course, in time: during the class, before the class, until the class, throughout the class, after the class, etc. And the professor can sit there in a bad mood.

Prepositions of Location: in, at, and on and No Preposition
IN (the) bed* the bedroom the car (the) class* the library* school*	AT class* home the library* the office school* work	ON the bed* the ceiling the floor the horse the plane the train	NO PREPOSITION downstairs downtown inside outside upstairs uptown

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Before we go any further, lets watch this video first (POST 4)

This is a video that will explain the concept of preposition to you.

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Introduction to Preposition (POST 3)

INSTRUCTION:

Below is the reading material to understand preposition. Read, understand and each group has to produce a creative mind map using the important points.

Group members are as in the list that is on my table. Head of the class has to pick it up and read out the allocation of group members. There are five groups.

Reading Material:

What Is A Preposition?

What is a preposition?

Sometimes it helps to start with examples and pictures.

Think of a preposition as any word that describes the relationship between a caterpillar and an apple. In the picture below, all of the prepositions are underlined.

What is a preposition? 

It is a word that describes the relationship between this caterpillar and this apple.

Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence.

Look at the poster below. Identify the preposition that are used to describe the pictures.

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Now produce your mind map related to this reading material.

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Preposition Exercise (POST 2)

Before we go any further, I have one exercise for you to be completed during this session. Rewrite the questions along with the correct answers in your exercise book and submit it to me on our very next lesson.

I am allergic cats. We are looking for someone who is skilled giving presentations. He is responsible our branch in China. I have a question to ask related your education. I have a view Prague Castle from my apartment. The company president didn't want to comment the scandal. You remind me my cousin. After graduation, Joan will apply some local companies a job as a graphic designer. There was much damage the car. These boots were sale last week. The United Nations has supplied the rebels weapons. I have too many problems to deal This product should appeal girls in their teens. I've never heard Lyle Whitfield. I was surprised the size of her nose. Grace is her forties. She spends all her money luxury goods. Greg is involved organized crime. By the time the police found out the crime, the thief was already in Mexico.

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The Lesson Manual (POST 1)

Students, this is your preposition road map. Below are the things that  will happen during our lesson:

1. You will be divided into five groups. The division of groups is according to your achievement based on the test conducted beforehand.
2. You will be introduced to preposition.
3. You will be exposed to a greater extent of understanding preposition via content that is in accordance  to standard four content standard.
4. Tasks will be given to each group. Each group needs to work collaboratively.
5. There is also partner work needs to be done.
6. Marks will be given to each and every products that are produced based on the tasks given. Thus participation from each member of the groups is crucial in order to produce the best result.
7. Evaluation will take place. Each of the groups will be evaluated and marks will be given.

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