Esl games prepositions of place

This worksheet is good for kids and beginner ESL students to practice writing and spelling prepositions of place. This activity worksheet is a set of prepositions of place activity cards. These are great for activities like find your partner, matching games, memory games, line bingo, etc.

This last prepositions of place worksheet is a printable board game. This game is best played in pairs and each pair needs one dice and an eraser. To play, the students should take turns rolling the dice and moving their eraser.

When they land on a picture they should make a dialogue with their partner. Skip to content Download prepositions of place worksheets and use them in class today. A total of 9 scenes are used in this game: front room, bathroom, bedroom, fridge, park, cafe, classroom, TV and office.

These were chosen in the hope that they provide real-life context and match situations in which students may actually hear and use prepositions in their daily life.

The prepositions used in this game include the following: in, on, under, above, next to, right, left, behind, in front of and between.

For each of the 9 scenes there are 12 objects that must be positioned correctly; once this has been done, the student proceeds to the next scene. The scenes get progressively more difficult both in terms of the language and the time allowed.

If you think this game is too fast or too difficult for your students' English level, then you can play in 'slow' mode. To play slowly, just click on 'slow' at the title screen, or change the settings by clicking on the button in the game. This game is made in Javascript using the CreateJS framework.

The spelling section will accept just the preposition or the full prepositional phrase - "in" or "in the box". For a full list of the vocabulary or teaching materials to match this game check out the links below:. More activities and games to learn English:. Full End User License Agreement - synopsis: You are free to use any resource on this site as an end user and MES grants you an End User License with the following restrictions: You may not redistribute, copy, modify, transfer, transmit, repackage, re-engineer, charge for, or sell any of the materials from this site.

Student A starts by reading a set of instructions to their partner using the words up, down, left and right together with prepositions of place.

Their partner follows the instructions and draws pictures in the grid on the worksheet. Afterwards, the students swap roles. When the students have finished, they check each other's drawings and locations, without showing the answers to their partner.

If some drawings or locations are wrong, the instructions are repeated. Where are the objects? Here is a prepositions of place game to help teach the place prepositions: under, on, in, in front of, next to and beside. In the activity, students write sentences about where objects are located and play a game of dominoes by matching the sentences with pictures and vice-versa.

Groups start by writing sentences about the locations of objects in pictures on the dominoes. They do this by referring to a belongings worksheet to see who each item belongs to, e.

Each group then gives their dominoes to another group. The group members then play dominoes by putting a domino down at either end of the domino chain, making sure that their picture or sentence matches with the domino on the table. The first player to get rid of all their dominoes wins the game. Where are these places? In this prepositions of place speaking activity, students describe the locations of shops and buildings on a street map.

In pairs, students take it in turns to ask their partner about the location of the missing shops and buildings on their worksheet, e. When the students have finished, they describe the five named shops or buildings to their partner using prepositions of place, e. Their partner listens and draws anything that is not shown on their worksheet.

Afterwards, students check the locations and pictures by comparing worksheets. At the Shopping Mall. In this free prepositions of place activity, students listen to clues that contain prepositions of place and work out where various places are located in a shopping mall. Students take it in turns to read out their clues to the group.

The group then tries to work out where the various places are located and an assigned student marks their answers on a floor plan.