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Prepositions and directions games, worksheets, songs and videos

My worksheets etc on prepositions elsewhere

Body part positions Normal or Strange (for young learners)

Body parts prepositions brainstorming

Our topsy turvy school project

Ghost prepositions and classroom language game

Classifying prepositions of time

Past prepositions of time SNAP game

Past perfect prepositions etc

Emailing prepositions practice

Business English prepositions of time

Prepositions of position Find What’s Wrong

I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor Song Prepositions Worksheet

Verb patterns and prepositions sentence completion game (a good way of adding personalisation and a competitive aspect)

Telephoning prepositions and phrasal verbs board game

Common People by Pulp- prepositions practice and discussion

IELTS Speaking part one and two Work prepositions

15 fun activities for prepositions of time (article with game ideas)

Carefully selected links to other people’s games, songs etc

Garfield Scavenger Hunt (online game on the official Garfield site- ask the students where they want to go and look to add prepositions practice)

Prepositions of position UNO (printable card game on Reggie.net- simple prepositions with fun but slightly difficult to explain game, most suitable for kids who already know UNO but useable with low level adults)

The same game on Onestopenglish.com (don’t ask me who ripped off who!)

Anteater prepositions of time and position game (online game on the English File 1 website, but actually much more suitable for young learners- successful attempt to make a boring gapfill fun with graphics and sounds)

Team preposition (idea for TPR game that is also good for students learning each others’ names, on ESL HQ.com)

Prepositions of place and movement revision (worksheet, then brainstorming where a cat could go in a room, then ball throwing game, from Baalbek.org)

Prepositions related to movement and position (game ideas from Onestopenglish)

Prepositions of movement video lesson plan (from TEFLclips.com, with photocopiable worksheet)

Toss the ball (Prepositions of movement and name learning game from ESL Playground)

Grammar Rock prepositions song (Youtube video- could be used as a gapfill if you wrote out the words, but quite advanced so only suitable for adults)

Prepositions TPR song (this Youtube video isn’t clear enough to use, but could use the song and actions or variations on it)

Preposition poems lesson (with a photocopiable handout with nice example poems, from ReadWriteThink.org)

Indiana Jones treasure hunting game idea (for Primary aged children to practise directions, from Naruhodo Eigo)

Monster catcher directions game idea (ditto)

Mobile by Avril Lavigne (gapfill from musicalenglishlessons.org)

The Strangest Thing by George Michael (ditto)

Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd (ditto)

We are the Champions by Queen (ditto- third version down for prepositions)

Clean and Green (recycling game from British Council Learn English Kids, ask them where each thing is to practice prepositions)

My games etc in this section of Worksheets