1. Name of the teacher: CEENIA CLEMENT
Name of the school : ChristNagar SeniorSecondarySchool
Standard : 7th
Subject : English
Unit : The Stone
Curricular statement
To enable the students to understand preposition.
Objectives
The pupils will be able to:
1) understand about preposition.
2) to familiar with its exercise.
Teaching learning resources
Chart and pictures.
Pre-requisites
They might have heard about preposition.
What is a preposition?
What is a proposition?
Sometimes it helps to start with examples and pictures.
Think of a preposition as any word that describes the relationship between a caterpillar and an
apple.
In the picture below, all of the prepositions are underlined.
What is a preposition?
2. It is a word that describes the relationship
between this caterpillar and this apple.
Are you ready to hear the definition of a preposition?
Brace yourself. This will sound complicated, but with the help of examples and a little more of
an explanation, you will know exactly what these little babies are.
Prepositions are words that showthe relationshipbetweena noun or a pronoun
and some other word or element in the rest of the sentence.
3. After reading that you know exactly what a preposition is, right?
Okay, may be that is a little much to wrap your head around.
Let’s break that down with a few examples.
She swam across the lake.
Across connects the noun lake with the verb swam.
It tells us where she swam.
Do you see how the preposition tells us the relationship between lake and swam?
The cupcake with sprinkles is mine.
In this example, the preposition with is showing the relationship between the noun sprinkles
and the noun cupcake. It tells us which cupcake is hers.
Activity
Create sentences from the following sentence diagram.
