A selection of English ESL prepositions of place printables with creative writing prompt, writing practice

Creative writing prompt

Prepositions of place

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>

Get here and you are ready to study in English at university

By means of a picture of a house as a starting point, students are encouraged to write a description, more or less guided depending on their level. Then they must find some household items and tell their classmates where they are in the picture. If you have some spare time, a bingo may be a nice end.

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MY SWEET HOME

This is a test about house. Here you can find reading comprehension exercises, vocabulary about the parts of a house and its furniture, prepositions of place, plurals, and so on...

Test: House

Writing and speaking practice on describing a picture while students learn about art.

SUNDAY BY SIGNAC - DESCRIBE A PICTURE

This worksheet is aimed at practising the use of prepositions of place and the vocabulary on the topics "Home", "Rooms", "Furniture". It may also be useful for the revision of colours.

MY ROOM. PREPOSITIONS

This worksheet includes vocabulary about Halloween and children can learn with fun about this event and they can practice this words you have in the worskheetsd

HALLOWEEN - VOCABULARY - PREPOSITIONS

Describe a kitchen.  Answer simple questions: Is there a / are there any; where is / are; complete sentences; use prepositions of place; describe; answer questions about colours.  Suitable for beginners and adult ESOL Pre-Entry  or E1.

Things in the kitchen

This is the capital letter version.



Find and circle each of the twelve words (frog, cat, fly, ant, on, in, under, by, tree, rock, log and bag). After your student has found and circled the correct word, they can get writing practice by writing the word two times. Study animals, prepositions and nouns with this fun and easy word search!





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English Prepositions (on, in, under, by) Word Search Plus Writing Practice

this worksheet is very interesting for kids. there are many pictures and exercises. It focus on the use of beside, behind, between, in front of. The answer are also simple

Preposition

Use this activity to exercise your student's writing skills. It focuses on expressing written location of objects in a space, from a very contextualized writing proposal. 



Students may struggle a little to read the textual proposal out, since it has words that they don't know. Teachers might pre-teach the vocabulary or read the text with the students, exploring the meanings of the words and other things they notice students need to be introduced to. 



With this activity, students will be able to

- express location of objects in a particular space;

- exercise forms of the verb to be; 

- exercise uses of possessive adjectives; 

- exercise uses of demonstrative pronouns;

- exercise uses of prepositions of place. 

- exercise creativity.



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Where are my keys? - Expressing location of things

Review of lexis related to schools and the classroom. Complete sentences based on a reading text. A wordsearch exercise and two crossword puzzles about school. Review of classroom instructions. Overview of subjects. Matching words to obtain school rules. Writing two descriptions based on fact files. Complete a dialogue between a pupil, his teacher, and an English guest. Consolidation of prepositions of place. Describe the position of items in a picture. Identifying school objects and the items inside a schoolbag in a picture. Answering True False questions about a picture of a school bag. Answering why-questions about the school objects in a school bag.

M5 S1 Let's Visit Aly's School - Extra Practice Worksheet #2

This activity was designed to make students practise the prepositions of place UNDER/ABOVE/NEXT TO/ON THE RIGHT/ON THE LEFT/BETWEEN

prepositions of place

The sts need no read the sentences and draw what is written. The last box is empty so the sts have the opportunity to create their own sentence. It´s a great way to practice the prepositions In and On.

12 Prepositions of place, Creative writing prompt, Writing Practice English ESL worksheets pdf & doc