Preposition Showdown

​Preposition Showdown

​This is a game and is meant to be fun.
We're using the honor system, meaning don't Google every answer. If I wanted Google to answer instead of my students, I'd ask Google myself. I'm asking YOU to use your brains.

You are going to be given a list of 5 items. You must find the items in the picture. Then, you must write a sentence for each item describing its location using prepositional phrases. The location must be accurate to the picture or you do not get credit.

Task 1: Seek and Find

Open Ended

1. Find these five items. Then, write a sentence for each (5 total) describing the location of the item using a preposition. You have 5 minutes.

3. The violin

4. The diamond

5. doll with yellow hair

6. the spider and spiderweb

7. the scissors

Task 2: Listening for Prepositions

Listen

Listen Carefully

You are going to listen to a song. As you hear prepositions, tally them. You have a maximum of five minutes to complete the task. You can replay the video as much as you need in those five minutes.

Multiple Choice

How many prepositions did you hear in this song?

• 42

• 28

• 21

• 16

Task 3: Group Work

This task is to be done as a group.
Each person must say a preposition on their turn. If they do not say a preposition, they are out of the game. The last person standing wins this round.

Word Cloud

Type two prepositions.

Multiple Choice

How many prepositional phrases are in this sentence?

During autumn, the leaves all fall off the trees.

• 4

• 5

• 3

• 2

Multiple Choice

How many prepositional phrases are in this sentence?

In the middle of the game, Joe came down with the flu.

• 5

• 2

• 1

• 3

Prepositional Phrases Modify Words

A prepositional phrase can act as an adverb.
ADVERBS:
It will answer the question: How, When, or Where?

You can eat ice cream at grandma’s.

Where?

At grandma’s

A prepositional phrase can act as an adjective.
ADJECTIVES:
It will answer the question: “Which one?”

The bowl on the counter is empty.

Which bowl?

The one on the counter

To figure out if a prepositional phrase is an adverb or adjective, you must first find the word it describes.

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositonal phrase in this sentence describing?

Dionte put his head on the counter and cried.

• his head

• Dionte

• put

• counter

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase in this sentence describing?

Unfortunately, we cannot learn textbook material through osmosis.

• we cannot

• textbook material

• unfortunately

• learn

Multiple Choice

What is the prepositional phrase describing?

I cannot believe I slept until ten o’clock!

• I

• cannot

• slept

• ten o'clock

Multiple Choice

Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb phrase?

How did people live inside a medieval castle?

• adjective

• adverb

• no clue

• banana!

Multiple Choice

Is the prepositional phrase acting as an adjective or adverb?

The main room in a castle was the great hall.

• adjective

• adverb

• sure?

• I like pineapples.

Multiple Choice

Is the prepositional phrase acting as an adverb or adjective?

The lord’s table was often the only table with fixed legs.

• adjective

• adverb

• whoops

• I have a penguin.

Draw

Read carefully. Then, draw a picture.

"There is a desk in the middle of the picture. Next to the desk on the right, there is a fish tank with dead fish. On the right wall, there is a clock above the door. There is a cat hiding under the desk."

When you are done, write the number of prepositions in this text on your picture.

Open Ended

Pick up any book near you. Open it to page 12 and find 5 prepositional phrases. Then, write them below.

(If your book doesn't have a page 12, quickly find a book that does).

Categorize

Options (7)

on

at

in

above

under

behind

beside

Organize these options into the right categories.

Prepositions of Place/Time

Prepositions of Location

Match

Match the following words to the preposition that follows.

• amazed

• different

• take pride

• characteristic

• control

by

from

in

of

over

• by

• from

• in

• of

• over

Reorder

Put the prepositions in alphabetical order.

• about

• below

• near

• to

• with

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Categorize

Options (12)

devoted

similar

prefer x_y

unfamiliar

contrast

identify

depend

based

insist

typical

take advantage

mastery

Organize these options into the right categories for the words that follow each preposition.

Example:

ON

reflect (on)

insist (on)

focus (on)

To

With

ON

OF

CONGRATS!
You made it.