working
with Prepositions
After
many years of teaching English as a Second Language, I have realized
that teaching prepositions is very difficult. There are really very few
rules to help students learn prepositions. I believe
this is true in every language. Often students attempt to translate
prepositions directly from their native language into English. Sometime
the translation is correct, but often it is not.
I did develop a set of rules which I call Travel
Prepositions. These rules seem to work very well for my students,
but are useful for a very limited set of prepositions.
Because of the lack of good rules when using prepositions, I have
decided to give my students practice using the prepositions that I have
found to be most useful in every day conversations.
The following pages are the ones that I have been using. The students
will make mistakes as they try to pick the conrrect prepositons for
each page. I hope that the students will not find this too
frustrating Many prepositons from one page will appear again on the
next page.
I do hope that you find this useful. Please click here
to go to the first page of these prepositions.