ESL Preposition Games for Kids | TEFL Prepositions of Place Activity Ideas for Children

If you're looking for some fun ESL preposition games and activities for kids, you're in the right place. Watch the video for some of my favourite prepositions of place ideas for English lessons. When teaching ESL students, you can explain that prepositions are used to show relationships between places, people and objects. Some of the most common ones are: in, at, on, out of, onto, etc. Check out the video and my blog post for more preposition ideas for children for the classroom! It's teaching prepositions of place to kids made easy! ----------------------- Try out this prepositions of place online memory quiz with your students: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhkQCSZuE0g ----------------------- Want to find out more about teaching English to kids, including prepositions? Check out: https://www.eslactivity.org/preposition-place-games/ 101 ESL Activities for Kids: https://amzn.to/2QEqH1B https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ #preposition #teachingenglishwithjackie #prepositions #teachingenglish #esl -------------------------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: https://eslspeaking.org/ ------------------------------ Another fun preposition game for kids from @English Teaching Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbeodiPerlM ------------------------------ Timestamp 0:00 Intro 0:16 Preposition memory game 0:58 Is that sentence correct? 1:23 Information gap activities 1:51 Concentration 2:27 Picture prompt 2:54 Conclusion Transcript for prepositions of place ESL games for kids: Hi everybody, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about the top five ESL prepositions of place games and activities for kids. Prepositions are things like in, on, under, beside, and next to. There are a whole bunch of them. The first one I like to do is a memory game. I flash up a picture on the screen with various objects that would lead to preposition usage. I give students maybe one to two minutes to study the picture. I don't let them take notes and then at the end of the minute, I take down the image and I ask questions. For example, where's the ball? And the students would have to write, the ball is on the desk or something like that, for example. You can adapt it based on the level of your students. For lower level, you could just say, is the ball on the desk or under the desk? And students can just write on or under. Just one word. Higher-level students can write the entire sentence quite easily. The next one: is that sentence correct. This is similar in that there's an image on the screen and then I ask students questions. For example, is the boy next to his mom? Yes, he is. Or, no he isn't. Or, where is the ball? They could write the ball is on the desk, something like that. This isn't a memory game so it's a little bit easier than the previous one. The next one-information gap activities (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quJnHU7HWCA&t=32s). They are perfect for prepositions of place. This is when one student has half the information, and the other student has the other. The classic one is that there is a city map and this student has the bank and the fire hall and the school and the bakery and they have to talk to each other to find out the complete set of information and write it all down. They'd have to ask questions like, where's the bank? Where's the school? The school's next to the bank, etc. Things like that. The next one is concentration. So this is a really good one for beginners. Write down the word in and then show a picture of something in. And then on, plus a picture of something on. Cut up the cards, and put students into groups of four. They arrange them on their desks in an organized fashion, maybe about 12 to 16 of them. Four students in a group. The first student uncovers two cards. If they match, they keep it. If they don't match, they put them back in the same spot and then the next student goes. Continue on until all the cards are gone. You can mix it up and even play again if you want as well. The next one is picture prompt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dPDFKzCVj8). So this is a really nice warm-up one to introduce prepositions of place. Flash up a picture on the screen that leads to preposition usage and then just ask some leading questions like, where's the boy? He's in the park. Who is he with? He's with his mom. Why is he always next to his mom? Okay, so you can just ask questions like that to elicit the target information that you want. That's it for prepositions of place activities for kids.