BEG U2 S4 - Prepositions of Place

Unit 2 | Session 4

LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Describe a photo of your friends

Agenda

1 LISTENING FOR GIST

AND DETAIL

2 GRAMMAR: Prepositions

of place

3 SPEAKING: Describe a

photo of you and your friends

4 PROGRESS CHECK

Prepositions of Place

• Prepositions of place are words and phrases

to say the position or location of something.

• Some prepositions of place are: in, next to,

between, on the left, and on the right.

Examples:
✓ “The keys are in the apartment.”
✓ “Are the keys next to the plant?”
✓ “They're not between the cushions.”
✓ “The keys are not on the left. They’re on the right.”

1.) Listen to Flora talk about the people in the photo. What do they do together?

LISTENING

2.)Listen again. Write the names of the people: Aniko, Claudia, Tony, and Zack.

1 _________ is 23.
2 _________ is from Los Angeles.
3 _________ is an artist.
4 _________ is really friendly.
5 _________ is a doctor.
6 _________ is 28.

PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

Make sentences using prepositions of place.

Tony is next to ...

Claudia isn’t between ... and ...

1 Choose a photo of you with three or four
people.

2 Prepare to speak about the picture.

• Say where you are (“in” + city/country).

• Say where people are in the picture

(“next to,” “on the left/right,” “between”).

• Give information about the people

(“friend,” “student,” “sister,” “friendly,”
“22 years old,” “in a band,” etc.).

3 Tell another student about your photo.

SPEAKING

Describe a photo of you and your friends

PROGRESS CHECK

Now I can ...

❑

describe friends in a photo.