Prepositions, Articles and common mistakes

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Today

• Prepositions
• Articles

Learning Goal

• You will know what a preposition is and how to use it.
• You will know what an article is and how to use it.

How do you make the present continuous?

1. to have + verb + -es
2. to be + verb
3. to be + verb + -ing
4. to do + verb + -ing

By the end of your course, you will have been studying for four years.

1. Future Simple
2. Past Perfect
3. Future perfect continuous
4. Present continuous

Look at these sentences

1. He sat on the chair.
2. There is some milk in the fridge.
3. She was hiding under the table.
4. The cat jumped off the counter.
5. He drove over the bridge.

can you name
a preposition

He sat on the chair.

pronoun - verb - preposition -article -noun

What

A preposition is a word or group of words used before

• a noun (zelfstandig naamwoord),
• pronoun(I, You) ,
• or noun phrase

to show
direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships,

Prepositions of Direction (movement)

To refer to a direction, use the prepositions "to," "in," "into," "on," and "onto."

    She drove to the store.
    Don’t ring the doorbell. Come right in(to) the house.
    Drive on(to) the grass and park the car there.

Prepositions of Time

To refer to one point in time, use the prepositions "in," "at," and "on."

    Use "in" with parts of the day (not specific times), months, years, and seasons.
    He reads in the evening.

Use "at" with the time of day. Also use "at" with noon, night, and midnight.   
She often goes for a walk at night.

    Use "on" with days.
    I work on Saturdays.

Prepositions of Place

He left his phone on the bed.

Basements are dug below ground.

There is a deer between the two trees.

There is a purple flower among the weeds.

 I am going to a concert _____________ Friday.

My dad is alwayys home ________ 6 o'clock. 

 You were born ______ August.

 She has trouble ..... remembering new vocabulary. 

Birmingham is 250 kilometres ------- London

Prepositions: Complete the gaps (1-5)   by dragging a preposition A-H. 

1.

in

on

at

With

from

Quick test

 Make the Prepositions assignment (Forms via Teams)
10 minutes
Finished? Work on Nu Engels.
Hoofdstuk – CamEx
Paper 3 – Listening; exercises 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Articles (lidwoorden)

In Dutch: ''De, Het, Een'', are the articles

In English: ''The, A, An'', are the articles

(A, AN are indefinite articles
The is an definite article)

Articles

Articles are words that define a noun as specific or unspecific. Consider the following examples:

After the long day, the cup of tea tasted particularly good.
After a long day, a cup of tea tastes particularly good.

Definite / Indefinite?

The definite article is the word the. It limits the meaning of a noun to one particular thing.

“Are you going to the party this weekend?”
“Are you going to a party this weekend?”

Indefinite

The indefinite article takes two forms.
It’s the word a when it precedes a word that begins with a consonant. (medeklinker)
It’s the word an when it precedes a word that begins with a vowel

Omissions

Let’s go out for a dinner tonight.
Let’s go out for dinner tonight.
The creativity is a valuable quality in children.
Creativity is a valuable quality in children

Quick Test

Make the Article assignment in Forms (see Teams)