A selection of English ESL repositions printables

Hi everyone. This is a worksheet created for my sts to practice about Prepositions and school subjects. I hope you like it. Greetings from Costa Rica. Comments will be accepted. 

School subjects - Prepositions (in - at- on)

It is a guess who game to help students use present continuous. Good practice for questions

There is a also a revision of the prepositions of place. Addtionally you can revise colors, obgects, and clothes. Sutable for kids and adult beginners.

I intend to use it on a student with a learning difficulty.

Guess who!

This is a very easy activity to practice food and prepositions of place. I use it with my YLE Starters group and the loved it. The students just have to draw the food in the correct place following the instructions in 10 sentences. 

When they finish, I usually allow them to colour the worksheet as they like.

*You may add more sentences if you like.

*The fonts change when I upload them. For the title I used a font called MICKEY and for the sentences, Escolar1. You can find them easily and copyright free on the Internet.

MY KITCHEN

This is the 3rd part of my set which I created to practise the verbs with prepositions and to measure the knowledge of my ss. You can use it as a test, too. In this ws there are (again) two different tasks. In the first the ss have to match the correct preposition to the verb then write its meaning after it. In the second task they have to find the correct preposition to each sentence. The cliparts are from Grace Lee. Thanks for her generosity. Hope you like the whole set. :)

Verbs with prepositions 3 *** for intermediate and advanced learners *** with key *** fully editable

There are 4 exercises to practise Simple Past Tense and prep. of time. 1) Ss have to complete a table with the infinitive or the past form of the verbs. 2) at / in / on 3) affirmative and negative sentences 4) jumbled sentences Key is included! I hope you like it and find it useful! :-)





Simple Past - practice

The worksheet contains 8 exercises.  Students read the text and fill in the gaps with missing pronouns and prepositions, then they do other exercises. Hope you find it helpful.

Reading: Jonathan Swift

This is the 2nd ws in this set which I created to practise the verbs with prepositions and to measure the knowledge of my ss. You can use it as a test. In this ws there are two different tasks, too. In the first the ss have to match the correct preposition to the verb then write its meaning after it. In the second task they have to find the correct preposition to each sentence. The cliparts are from Grace Lee. Thanks for her generosity. Hope you like the whole set. :)

Verbs with prepositions 2 *** for intermediate and advanced learners *** with key *** fully editable

This is a weekend homework for 4th grades which talks about countries. Students will learn about finding the information from a text. 

The homework has 3 parts; reading, vocabulary and use of English. For the vocabulary, it\'s related to countries and for the language focus, it is about expressing time. 

I hope you enjoy it with your students as much as I enjoyed writing it.

The largest Countries in the world

Here you have a listening, you can say por example: The teddy is () the table. You can choose the correct option and they have to circle it. They practice the vocabulary

Prepositions of Place - Kids

A picture with some exercises on basic English structures: the question words, present continuous, has got, prepositions, colours, shapes... On page 2, answer the questions with yes/no... and a short RC and questions. 

What are the children doing? 

I have been trying to find an activity to help my learners master prepositions of time, so I came up with this activity to use in class as practice. They apply in, on & at very well while doing a worksheet, but get them mixed up during conversation.I am going to give it a trial run on Monday. I hope whoever downloads it finds it useful. 

Preposition of Time Conversation Cards

Sts decide where they can buy different items and then locate the shops in a map, using the clues.

Can you find the shops?

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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