Do you need the preposition "to" / "for" or not? This is an ESL / EFL video quiz to practice the two word orders possible with ditransitive verbs. 

This quiz takes advantage of our new feature available in gapfill questions in the video quiz creator: the "zero gap". Students either have to fill in the missing preposition or leave it blank when they realize no preposition is necessary.  

Transitive verbs are English verbs that take an object. Ditransitive verbs take two objects: (1) a direct object and an indirect object or (2) a direct object and an object complement.

A ditransitive verb accepts or may require an indirect object to complete its meaning—"the noun to whom something is given" or simply "the recipient".

There are two possible positions for the recipient or beneficiary of the action:

1. VERB + INDIRECT OBJECT (RECIPIENT) + DIRECT OBJECT
2. VERB + DIRECT OBJECT + "TO" or "FOR" + COMPLEMENT (RECIPIENT)

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey) arrives to work to find a long line of animals waiting to audition for the show.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
When a koala impresario (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) is in danger of losing his grand theater after one flop too many, he hatches a plan to stage a gala singing competition to save the day. But when a typo inflates the grand prize to 100,000 dollars, the contest attracts the attention of a number of singing animals, including a harried pig mom (Reese Witherspoon), a teenage gorilla (Taron Egerton), a shy elephant (Tori Kelly), and a punk porcupine (Scarlett Johansson). Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Hudson, and Nick Offerman also lend their voices to this animated musical comedy.

Sing - Open the Doors Scene - Ditransitive Verbs Practice

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Let's do English ESL general grammar practice. Do you need the preposition "to" / "for" or not? This is an ESL / EFL video quiz to practice the two word orders…