Practising time expressions board rush

Aim: to practise and revise prepositions that are used with time expressions with younger learners (on, in, at)

Divide the board into two columns and on each side add three columns with the words below

on in at | on in at

Divide the class into two groups and line them up in single file a few metres from the board. Give the students who are first in line a pen/chalk.

Read out the following sentence:

I drink tea bleep the afternoon.

After conferring, or not, with their team, the student holding the pen must get to the board and write the entire sentence but with the correct preposition in place of the bleep. I drink tea in the afternoon.

The student who finishes writing the sentence wins a point for their team. The sentence must be completely correct though, spelling and all.

Here are some more sentences you can read:

Sarah doesn't go to school bleep Saturday. [on]

She wakes up bleep 7 o'clock. [at]

Bruce always sleeps bleep the afternoon. [in]

Some animals come out bleep night. [at]

I go swimming bleep the weekend. [at/]

He does his homework bleep the evening. [in]

Shops close at 5 o'clock bleep the afternoon. [in]

After school bleep Monday, I play football.

Make up more of your own so all the students get a go.

When you have finished you could write/elicit this table on the board for them to copy

on in at

a day of the week most times of day a precise time

on Monday, on Tuesday, etc. in the morning at four o'clock

the weekend in the afternoon at half past one

in the evening at night

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