1. Using Prepositional Phrases
I. Learning Objective
• Identify prepositional phrases used in sentences correctly.
• Use prepositional phrases in sentences.
II. Subject Matter
A. Topic: Using Prepositional Phrases
B. References: PELC 12 Speaking
Skill Builders in English 4 pp. 102-103
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C. Materials: Pictures and charts
III. Procedure
A. Preparatory Activities
Review
Invite the pupils to play the game “Who Made the Most?”
a. Divide the class into five groups.
b. For three minutes have the pupils list as many prepositions as they
can
c. The group that can give the most number of prepositions is the
winner.
Motivation
1. Show a picture of a farm.
Value Focus: Helpfulness

2. Ask:
a. What is this place, children?
b. What do see in a farm?
c. What do you do on the farm?
d. What do you do on the farm?
Encourage pupils to share experiences.
Unlocking of Difficulties
Ask pupils to pick cut-out flowers from a Make-Believe garden. Read
the words in the flowers then match each with its meaning written on a
chart.
locker a small closet
hallway a way to go through a building
shelves thin, flat piece of wood fastened to a wall

3. B. Developmental Activities
Presentation
Say: Listen to the story that I will read.
Then call on a volunteer to read the story aloud.
I stay at my uncle’s farm every summer. I wake up very early every
morning to gather duck eggs. Before the sun goes up, my cousin Celso
and I drive the goats to the grassy hill to graze. There is plenty of grass
to eat so the goats are full within an hour. By this time Uncle Pastor is
busy among his vegetable plants. Celso and I help him pull the weeds or
cultivate the soil until lunch time which is around twelve noon. After
lunch, I lean against the trunk of a huge acacia tree and take a nap for
about half hour.
Discussion and Analysis
1. Have the pupils answer these questions. Have them write each answer
on the board and underline the preposition.
a. Where is the story taking place? (in the farm)
b. When do the boys drive the goats to the graze? (before the sun
goes up)
c. In how many hours does the goats get full? (within an hour)
d. Where does Uncle Pastor work most of the time? (among the
vegetable plants)
e. When is lunch time? (around twelve noon)
f. What do the boys do when the sun gets hot? (lean against a tree)
g. What may be a good thing to do after lunch?
h. If you were Celso, will you also enjoy working on the farm? Why?
i. Will you also help your uncle? How?
2. Say: Let’s go back to your answers to the questions. What do you call
the underlined words? preposition
3. With part of speech do the prepositions end? (noun or pronoun)
4. What do you call the group of words that begins with the preposition
and ends with a noun or pronoun? (prepositional phrase)
5. Group Activity
a. Group the pupils into five.
b. Give each group five minutes to review and use these prepositional
phrases in sentences. The group who is able to use all the phrases
in sentences correctly wins.

4. • at the health center
• during summer
• to my house
• into the deep hole
• under the tree
Generalization
Ask pupils this question and guide them to elicit the answer.
What is a prepositional phrase?
C. Post Activities
1. Application
Directions: Read the paragraph carefully. Choose the correct
prepositional phrase that fits each sentence. Underline your answer.
A. Heidi went (in the bookstore, inside the bookstore). She noticed
boys and girls (about a big box, around a big box) of books. They
were looking through (the pages, from the pages) of some books
there. Heidi saw that the books were (about prehistoric animals,
around prehistoric animals). She took one book and browsed (from
page to page, in the pages). She found out that they were very
different (than the books, from the books) she already had.
B. Use the following prepositional phrases in sentences.
1. among the boys
2. in a year
3. from the forest
4. under the mango tree
5. to the city
• A prepositional phrase is group of words that begins
with a preposition and ends with a noun or a pronoun.

5. Enrichment
Divide the class into learning teams. Each learning team will be given
a picture. Encourage the teams to talk about the pictures using
prepositions/prepositional phrases. Guide them in doing this. Have each
team present their sentences in paragraphs.
Sample pictures pupils in the library
men in the store
boys on the tree
farmers on the farm
doctors in the hospital
Values Integration
Ask: Have you ever experienced helping others? What did you do? How
did you feel?
Did you expecting anything in return?
IV. Evaluation
Directions: Read the sentences and use the correct prepositional phrase.
Circle your answer.
1. Cutting down trees (in the forest, to the forest) is prohibited.
2. Cross the street (at the pedestrian lanes, to the pedestrian lanes).
3. That lady waiting (to the shed, under the shed) is my mother.
4. Pupils are not allowed to stay (too late, at late) in the school.
5. Chen sits (among the two boys, between the two boys).
V. Assignment
Make a paragraph using the following prepositional phrases.
• from the village
• in the sky
• across the river
• at seven o’clock
• under the bridge

6. Enrichment
Divide the class into learning teams. Each learning team will be given
a picture. Encourage the teams to talk about the pictures using
prepositions/prepositional phrases. Guide them in doing this. Have each
team present their sentences in paragraphs.
Sample pictures pupils in the library
men in the store
boys on the tree
farmers on the farm
doctors in the hospital
Values Integration
Ask: Have you ever experienced helping others? What did you do? How
did you feel?
Did you expecting anything in return?
IV. Evaluation
Directions: Read the sentences and use the correct prepositional phrase.
Circle your answer.
1. Cutting down trees (in the forest, to the forest) is prohibited.
2. Cross the street (at the pedestrian lanes, to the pedestrian lanes).
3. That lady waiting (to the shed, under the shed) is my mother.
4. Pupils are not allowed to stay (too late, at late) in the school.
5. Chen sits (among the two boys, between the two boys).
V. Assignment
Make a paragraph using the following prepositional phrases.
• from the village
• in the sky
• across the river
• at seven o’clock
• under the bridge