Preposition Activity With Commands

Are you looking for a fun and interactive way to teach prepositions to your students? This preposition activity may be what you’re looking for!

This preposition activity is designed to help students understand and use prepositions correctly. It involves students in performing commands. By doing so they have fun while also learning how to use prepositions.

This preposition activity is suitable for beginners.

Introduction

Teaching prepositions can be challenging, but using a fun and interactive activity can help students learn and understand prepositional phrases better. The following activity aims to do just that, by using command drills to teach prepositions and then having students write a paragraph using these phrases. This activity is suitable for pre-intermediate or intermediate-level English language learners.

Lesson Plan Overview

Preposition activity

Command drills are a great way to teach many language points. The language activity described in this lesson plan has an objective to teach students prepositional phrases through commands and write a paragraph using these prepositional phrases.

Advantages of this lesson plan

• It contains fun activities.
• Students learn while playing.
• They use language to perform things.
• It applies the precepts of experiential learning education.

Presentation

• First, the target prepositions have to be contextualized.
• Using a text and asking students to read it, understand it, and then identify examples of prepositions can be very helpful.
• This awareness-raising stage draws their attention to notice the target language.
• After introducing prepositions and explaining their meaning, the teacher may ask the students to come up with more examples of prepositions.
• Write the propositions covered on the board.

Practice (command drills)

After writing some prepositional phrases (e.g., under the chair, on the desk, etc) on the board, call out a command for students to perform, using prepositional phrases.

For example, “under the chair” would require students to drop under their chairs.

Here are some more examples:

Command	Action
Under the chair.	Students drop under the table.
On the top of the table.	They sit on the table.
Around the desk.	They stand next to the door.
In front of the window.	They stand in front of the window.
On the left of the board.	They stand on the left of the board.
In your bag.	They put their hands in their school bag.

Writing a description

After practicing prepositions through the command drills, ask students to write a paragraph describing their living room or bedroom.

They should use the prepositional phrases they learned earlier in the activity.

They can use the following phrases:

1. in the corner, …
2. next to the bed, …
3. on the wall, …
4. on top of the table, …
5. in the middle of the room, …
6. under the window,
7. on the left of the door, etc.

Please give them a set amount of time to write and then ask them to exchange their paragraphs with a partner for peer editing.

Sharing and Voting

After peer editing, students can take turns reading their descriptions out loud to the class. The class can then vote for the best description.

Follow-up

Divide the students into groups of four and ask them to prepare prepositional phrases to use as commands for other groups to perform.

Conclusion

This activity is an engaging and interactive way to help students learn prepositional phrases. Through the use of command drills and writing exercises, students can understand how to use prepositions in their writing and speaking more effectively. The follow-up activity allows students to practice and reinforce their learning.