Lesson Plan of Prepositions English Grade IV

Lesson Plan of Prepositions

English Grade IV

Students’ Learning Outcomes

·         Demonstrate the use of some words showing position, time and movement

Information for Teachers

·         A noun is a part of speech that denotes a person, animal, place, thing, or idea.

·         Prepositions are words that show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence.

·         Prepositions are short words that usually stand in front of nouns.

·         Prepositions show the relationship between a noun and other word or elements in the sentence.

·         Preposition tells the position of a noun.

(Examples: on, in, out, behind, under)

Ø  The book is on the table.

Ø  The book is in the bag.

Ø  The book is behind the bag.

Ø  The cat is under the table.

Preposition here is telling the position of the noun “book”

·         There are three kinds of preposition:

v  Place of preposition like on, in, under etc.

v  Time of preposition like in, on, at etc.

v  Direction of preposition like to, from, into etc.

·         Prepositions of Time: at, on, and in:

v  We use at for the exact time on the clock. For example: the train is due at 12:15 p.m.

v  We use on for days and dates. For example: My brother is coming on Monday. We‘re having a party on the 4^th of May.

v  We use in for nonspecific times during a day, a month, a season, or a year i.e.  When we don’t know the exact time. For example: She likes to walk in the morning. It is too cold in winter.

·         Preposition of movement/direction: to, from and into. Movement/direction to person or building. For example: go to Pakistan.

·         “From…..to” is used to refer to the beginning and end of an activity or event. For example: “The weather was stormy from Wednesday to Friday”.

·         “Into” is used to enter a room / a building. For example: I go into the kitchen. I entered into the house.

Material / Resources

Board, chalk/marker, chart paper to draw the tables on it; if easily available otherwise draw the tables on the board

Worm up activity

·         Ask the students about prepositions as they have already read about prepositions of position in the previous class.

·         Note the responses of the students on the board.

·         Remind them how important prepositions are.

Development

Activity 1

·        Propulsion of Time:

·         Show them the following chart for the understanding of prepositions of time.

·         Ask to them to copy the given table in their notebooks.

English	Usage	Example
On	·         Dates, days of the week	·         On 14th August, on Monday
In	·         Month/seasons ·         Time of day ·         Year	·         In August/in winter ·         In the morning ·         In 2016
At	·         For night/noon ·         For weekend ·         A certain point of time (when?)	·         At night ·         At the weekend ·         At 7 o’ clock

·         Show the students to the following chart for the understanding of prepositions of place.

·         Ask to the students to copy the given table in their notebooks.

·        Prepositions- place position:

English	Usage	Example
In	·         Room, building, street, town, country, car, taxi	·         In the kitchen, ·         In Pakistan ·         In the car ·         In a taxi
At	·         Meaning next to, by on object ·         For table ·         For events ·         Place where you are to do something typical (watch a film, study work)	·         At the door ·         At the station ·         At the table ·         At a concert ·         At the party ·         At the cinema ·         At school ·         At work
On	·         Attached ·         Being on surface ·         For a floor in a house.	·         On the wall ·         On the table ·         On the first floor

·        Preposition of movement:

·        Show the students the following chart and explain to them the prepositions of movement.

To	·         Movement to person or building ·         Movement to a place or country ·         For bed	·         Go to the cinema ·         Go to Pakistan ·         Go to bed
Into	·         Enter a room/a building	·         Go into the kitchen/the house
From	·         In the sense of where from	·         A flower from the garden

·         Ask to the students to work in groups of four students each and use each preposition of movement in a simple sentence.

·         Ask the students to write only three sentences in their notebooks after discussing with their group fellows.

·         Help the students where they need it.

Activity 4

·         Make the students do the exercises and activities given in the textbook related to this topic.

Sum up / Conclusion

·         Ask the students the use of prepositions of time, movement and position.

·         Write these sentences on board and ask them to add prepositions.

v  The food is _______the fridge.

v  The keys are ______top of the fridge.

v  He will visit us _____noon.

v  The teacher wrote ____the board.

Assessment

·         Give the students the following sentences and ask them to underline the preposition.

v  Aiman was born in December.

v  She is sitting on the floor.

v  Ayesha is knocking at the door.

v  I am going to bazar.

Follow up

·         Ask the students to revise and learn the three tables given above.