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Song for lesson 2.

This is what I did with my co-teacher this morning. My students are generally pretty low level and rowdy, but these activities worked out pretty well.

Introduction - I put a desk at the front of the room. My co-teacher asked, "Where's Ann Teacher?" and I jumped on the desk. A few students in each class were able to say "on." Then I had them repeat after me and do a hand motion for "on" (putting their hand on their head). We did this for on, under, in, in front of, behind, next to, and between. After the first couple of times, the students would ask the question. After introducing a new word we reviewed by doing the hand movements and getting the students to call out the preposition.

Practice - Students take out an eraser (or a pencil). I had them repeat "Where's my eraser?" and then I would say "It's next to my ear." or "It's behind my head." The students had to put their eraser where directed and repeat the sentence after me.

Some of my students knew a prepositions song that had some hand movements that they seemed to like a lot, which they must've learned in hagwon. I'm still looking for a good, simple song to use next week.

Vocab ppt to explain different prepositions, a little "guess where" game to let them practice the new language and a battleships game you can use as you wish.

The way I did it was to play against the entire class myself.  Them on a big whiteboard I couldn't see, and me on the interactive ppt slide.  They really enjoyed it.

Here's a scavenger hunt worksheet (from a previous poster), revised to make it a little easier. The kids don't have to write the location - they just have to draw an arrow instead. To go with it, there's a powerpoint with a Youtube song embedded (the one with hand motions). The kids really enjoyed the whole activity.

Here is a dice template Lesson 2 period 2. I borrowed the template, but added my own pictures.

I edited moc-moc-a-moc!'s "Where's the ball?" review/game to focus on the main vocabulary (in, on, under) and added "next to."  I altered slides that had "behind" or "in front of" and added a couple of other slides. 

I'm trying a sentence jumble activity with my classes for the reading/writing part of the lesson.

I made a goofy prepositional picture that uses all of this lesson's vocabulary. Students are put into teams, and given an envelope full of words (the ball, the table, under, is, etc.). Looking at the picture, they rearrange the words to make as many sentences as they can. They write each sentence in their notebook, and get one point for each correct sentence.

Unfortunately I'm not the best artist, so the perspective in the picture is a bit wonky, which makes practicing in front of/between/behind/next to a little difficult. But it should be good for in, on and under!

Here's a wordsearch and a review/hidden pic game for use with reviewing vocab.

Nice worksheet. I have the same textbook for my elementary students. Anyway here's a short powerpoint I made to help with Lesson 2's, in, on, under, etc.