Dependent prepositions pelmanism and snap

Dependent prepositions card games

Face to Face Advanced Units 1A and 1B

Instructions for teachers

Note that the dependent prepositions on this worksheet at all from Face to Face Advanced and so you’ll probably want to change at least some of the cards if you are teaching a different level and/ or from a different textbook. The games will work with all dependent prepositions and levels of student as long as you have enough of each group of card and the right number of categories.

Before starting the games, you might want to ask students to put all of the cards into columns by the preposition that they take. If they get stuck, tell them that there are three prepositions, tell them the number that should be in each category, and/ or give out a copy of the worksheets and tell them that the three categories are already grouped together so they just need to find where the transition is between the categories.

Dependent prepositions pelmanism/ pairs/ memory game

Students spread all the cards face down across the table and get one point for each pair they can find which have the same preposition missing. If the two cards have different words missing, then they put them back face down in the same place.

Dependent prepositions snap

Students deal out all the cards but can’t look at the cards that they have. They take turns turning over the top card from their pack and race to shout out “Snap” if the last two cards to be turned over have the same preposition missing. If they are right, they get all the cards on the table. If they shout “Snap” when the last two cards don’t match, they have to give two cards to their partner(s) as punishment and they continue. The winner is the person who gets all the cards or has most cards at the end of the game.

Cards to cut up (grouped by preposition)

______ of fashion	______ of touch	______ of control
______ of necessity	______ of habit	______ of your depth
Go ______ and see friends	Trying ______ some of Carnegie’s suggestions	______ a regular basis
_____ the same wavelength	_______ purpose	_____ good terms
_______ average	Someone you could unload everything ___ to	_____ a day to day basis
Unburden all my worries ____ my family	He’s focusing _____ my hair	______ the way to a meeting
Running low _____ face cream	As I hurried ____ my way	He goes _____ about how powerful a smile is
______ the increase	Witter ______	Walk around with a scowl ____ their face
Keep ______ touch	Keep ____ contact	______ the long run
_____ phases	Confide _____ my friends	Meet _____ a café
My mum would get _____ a flap	Genuinely interested _____ people	Butt _____

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Related pages

Dependent prepositions page

Pelmanism and snap blog post