English lessons are fun when they are held outside, in the garden, on a sunny day. And it’s the perfect place to practise using prepositions.

A Preposition is a word that tells you where or when something is in relation to something else.

After walking for miles, she rested on a hill.

In this sentence, after tells you when she rested and on tells you where she rested.

The most commonly used prepositions: at, above, across, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, between, by down, from, in, into, near, of, off, to, toward, under, upon, with and within.

We say

at the weekend

at night

at Christmas / Easter

at the end of ……

at the moment

I am going to London at the weekend

Beatriz is reading at the moment

We say

In the morning /in the afternoon / in the evening

Do you often feel happy in the morning?

But

On Monday morning / on Tuesday evening /  on Saturday afternoon / on Sunday night

I go swimming on Saturday afternoon.

We use

this ( this morning / this week)

last ( last August / last week)

next ( next Tuesday / next week)

every ( every day / every week)

We say 

In five minutes

In a few days

In six weeks

In two years

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