Prepositions Stacking Game

By: Alex Case

Level: Beginner

Theme: General

Study Area: Prepositions

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Lesson Plan Content:

Prepositions Stacking Game
Instructions for teachers
Photocopy and cut out the cards below that match the words you want to practise and
objects that you can find in or bring to your classroom, e.g. a Lego window or the real
classroom window for “window” and a plastic plate for “plate”. Note that some of the cards
provide different ways of saying the same thing, so you’ll probably want to choose the
“next to” card or the “by” card (not both) and “big” or “large” and “little” or “small”.
Depending on your class, you may also want to cut down on the number of words, e.g.
eliminate some of the trickier prepositions.

If you don’t have enough objects that match the cards and/ or want to use different ones,
you can make your own cards with the blanks below, but note that “a” won’t match words
beginning with vowel sounds so you might need to add an “an” card. Make one set of
cards per class or group. There are several games which you can play with the objects
and cards, all of which involve stacking objects to make towers until they fall over:
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A student chooses cards of something that they want to stack and its position and then
try to add that to the tower

A student chooses cards of something that they want the teacher or another student to
stack and sees if the other person can do it

A student chooses cards to describe something that should be stacked, secretly takes
the “Yes” or “No” card depending on whether they think the next person can stack in
that way or not, then show the “Yes” or “No” card after the attempt is made to show if
they predicted correctly or not

Students can then say and/ or write their own phrases of ways of stacking.

Optional adjectives cards

big

little

large

small

red

blue

green yellow

white

pink

brown purple

_____ _____ _____ _____

Optional yes and no cards

YES NO

Put

the

in the

on the

under the

by the

next to the

in front of

behind

Object cards

plate

frying pan

spoon

knife

cup

jug

lid

bottle

ruler

bowl

saucepan

block

bananas

giraffe

lion

zebra

pencil

pen

map

calendar

magnet

block

clock

book

dog

window

car

Blank cards

__________

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