Day 3

A. PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

B. Prepositions of Place

In general, we use:

• at for a POINT
• in for an ENCLOSED SPACE
• on for a SURFACE

at	in	on
POINT	ENCLOSED SPACE	SURFACE
at the corner	in the garden	on the wall
at the bus stop	in London	on the ceiling
at the door	in France	on the door
at the top of the page	in a box	on the cover
at the end of the road	in my pocket	on the floor
at the entrance	in my wallet	on the carpet
at the crossroads	in a building	on the menu
at the front desk	in a car	on a page

Look at these examples:

• Jane is waiting for you at the bus stop.
• The shop is at the end of the street.
• My plane stopped at Dubai and Hanoi and arrived in Bangkok two hours late.
• When will you arrive at the office?
• Do you work in an office?
• I have a meeting in New York.
• Do you live in Japan?
• Jupiter is in the Solar System.
• The author's name is on the cover of the book.
• There are no prices on this menu.
• You are standing on my foot.
• There was a "no smoking" sign on the wall.
• I live on the 7th floor at 21 Oxford Street in London.

IN, ON, AT

Other Prepositions of Place

Exercise on Prepositions – TIME

Fill in the correct prepositions.

1. Peter is playing tennis  Sunday.
2. My brother's birthday is  the 5th of November.
3. My birthday is May.
4. We are going to see my parents  the weekend.
5.  1666, a great fire broke out in London.
6. I don't like walking alone in the streets  night.
7. What are you doing  the afternoon?
8. My friend has been living in Canada  two years.
9. I have been waiting for you  seven o'clock.
10. I will have finished this essay  Friday.

Exercise on Prepositions – PLACE

Select the correct prepositions.

1. We live atinon London.
2. Would you like to go atinto the cinema tonight?
3. No, thanks. I was atintoto the cinema yesterday.
4. We are going inonto holiday next week.
5. There is a bridge acrossthroughoutside the river.
6. The flight from Leipzig to London was aboutalongvia Frankfurt.
7. AtOnOnto my wall, there are many picture postcards.
8. Who is the person atinon this picture?
9. Come atininto the sitting room, we want to watch TV.
10. Munich lies 530 meters aboveacrosspast sea level.

Test your knowledge of prepositions of time and place

Activity: interviews

Directions: select a student to play the role of a school administrator and the rest of the students will play the role of students coming from Paris and Lyon.  These students are applying to attend the university of Montpellier.  When responding, make sure to use the right preposition.

Interview Questions:

1. What is your name and age?

2. When did you move to Montpellier?

3. When do you plan to start classes (summer/winter)?

4. Do you live in a house or in an apartment?

5. Where do you live?

6. How do you plan to arrive to school? By bus/car/bicycle/tram or on foot

7. What day of the week, do you plan to use the library? (pick one or two)

8. At what time, do you plan to arrive on Monday and leave on Friday?

C. A verb detective: can you help us find all the verbs in this song?

When you ______ your best, but you don't ______

When you ______ what you ______, but not what you ______

When you ______ so tired, but you can't ______

Stuck in reverse

And the tears ______ streaming down your face

When you ______ something you can't ______

When you ______ someone, but it goes to waste

Could it be worse?

Lights will ______ you home

And ______ your bones

I will ______ to ______ you

High up above or down below

When you're too in love to ______ it go

But if you never ______ you'll never ______

Just what you're worth

Lights will ______ you home

And ______ your bones

I will ______ to ______ you

Tears stream down your face

When you ______ something you cannot replace

Tears stream down your face and I

Tears stream down your face

I ______ you I will ______ from my mistakes

Tears stream down your face and I

Lights will ______ you home

And ______ your bones

And I will ______ to ______ you