Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Practice Using Prepositions of Time and Place: in, into, at, on. Also, BEWARE OF ADS!

The website esl.about.com offers many good explanations of grammar and many good quizzes. I don't like all the ads--they crowd out the grammar explanations and links to quizzes.

BEWARE OF THE ADS! Links that advertise things like "Essay Grammar Checker" and "Free Printable Workbook" are often advertisements for products that someone wants to sell to you. When you click on the link, you may find that "free" isn't really "free." If you see such phrases with a link to a website right below it, it's usually an advertisement. There are plenty of free resources on the internet for studying English--you don't need to spend money on what they want to sell you. However, the advertisements help pay for the free stuff you get on the website. That's how radio stations can broadcast for free--companies pay them to advertise products "on the air" (the idiom for a program that is being broadcast on radio or television).

The genuine links to information and quizzes are underlined, with no website address below. There are some good explanations and practice quizzes on prepositions.

My suggestion: Follow up the work we did in class today by reading the explanations of prepositions used with place and time and then doing the quizzes on these pages: IF YOU WERE NOT IN CLASS TODAY, YOU REALLY NEED THIS REVIEW AND PRACTICE!

Preposition Use - in / at / on - prepositions of time and date
Prepositions of Time and Date Quiz

Preposition Use - in / at / on - prepositions of place
Prepositions of Place Quiz

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