Learn English Live 5 with Steve Ford – Prepositions and Time Expressions
Learning English phrasal verbs can be really tricky. One of the main problems is that there are few rules to follow and more than often there are exceptions. This causes many students to feel insecure about their English. This is not the fault of the student and I hope that through some friendly teaching I can turn learning English prepositions into a pleasurable experience. The important thing as always is to try to associate prepositions with a real life experience. Think of when your favourite person was born. Were they born ON January 14th? or in January 14th?
In this case when you have the ordinal number after a month, you have to say “in”. It’s someone who stays deep “in” your heart and these are the kind of mnemonic devices you need to remember prepositions for the rest of your life. Now is this video I address the prepositions that always give my one-to-one students a hard time: look forward to, good in ? or good at?, in the internet? or on the internet? this Thursday? next Thursday? and many more. You can find great grammar books that list preposition combinations and of course the two big ones are by Raymond Murphy and Betty Azzar. That said, you still need to make these prepositions part of you and the only way you can do that is through constant practice. You don’t need to tell me that you understand the preposition usage, but you can’t you use them properly when you’re speaking. I know that! I hear that every day from my students around the world. Be creative and and you will find that prepositions can be your friend. Shine on my online students! Shine on!
well done Steve, I'd like(repeating?)to repeat(?) the game again...not only one tray....
yes, I repeat it, I understood better the prepositions.
Steve, I understood;"I'm good at speaking English" IS CORECT, and Not:"I'm good in speaking English".I've got a cross for a right respond.Can you take a look for it, please?There is confused for me. Regards, tiny06
Question: Correct or Incorrect? "She said me she's good at speaking English: My respons is: AT English and got a cross also: INCORRECT.???????
I liked the video and the game. I think the game would be better if we could try it again or if we could get the correction of our mistakes at once.Thanks.
ah, I made that one tricky! "at speaking" is correct, "said me" is wrong. :(
Thanks! I am always happy to hear from you. I think if you refresh your page you can do the quiz again! :)
I think you can, just hit the refresh button on your browser! :)
thanks alot for you I wish to be GOOD LISTENER BYE ASALA
It's a nice game with tricky questions! thank you a lot for your work!
Please make sure that ALL the preposition combinations in any sentence are correct. It certainly is more tricky than you think! Game players beware!
how can I speak with someoane from here?
Yay 7 out of 9 is correct :D
hi,, I am Nouf.Iam 25 years old. I am very happy here
wow! here I have learned a lot of english in few minutes! This guy knows too much
hello Thank you for yours fabulous video. I don't undertstand the response of the question:Can we use agree with two different prepositions? Why "we agree to disagree" is not correct?