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Prepositions Tic Tac Toe

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June

the radio the summer the beach my hometown

the third floor

school

night midnight

10 minutes

class

holiday

work

my apartment January 1st

5 o'clock Sunday the morning home

the wall

midday my birthday Valentine's

day the bank

2015

Written by Randolph Kendall for Teach-This.com ©2013

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Prepositions Tic Tac Toe

This game gives beginners an opportunity to practice or review prepositions of time and place. The game also encourages cooperation within teams and peer correction across teams. Procedure Before class, make one copy of the worksheet for every two teams. Cut the worksheet in half. Then, cut out the cards (bottom half) and put them into an envelope, again one set for every two teams. In class, review the use of prepositions to form adverbials of time and place, as well as some fixed expressions. Divide the class into small teams, pair off teams, and hand out the material. The objective of the game is to make grammatically correct sentences in order to form a vertical, horizontal or diagonal row of Xs or Os (Tic-Tac-Toe). Teams decide whether they want to be O or X. The first team to play picks a card from the envelope. Next, they choose a square in the grid containing the preposition that they think will form a correct adverbial with the phrase on the card. They then make a sentence with the adverbial. If everyone judges the sentence correct, team A marks the square with an O or X. The other team proceeds in the same way. The two teams take turns drawing the cards and making sentences. The game ends when one of the teams has three squares in a row. If neither manages to get three in a row, it is a draw. Note: In case a team picks a card for which all the correct prepositions have been taken, they put it back in the envelope and draw another card. They may play this game several times. In that case, each team scores one point every time they do Tic-Tac-Toe. When the activity is over, they count their points. The team with the highest score wins. As students will probably be playing several times, either have them mark their squares with different symbols every time they play, or make more copies of the prepositions grid.

Written by Randolph Kendall for Teach-This.com ©2013