Dependent Prepositions ESL Activities, Games and Worksheets

Get the Preposition

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Dependent Prepositions Board Game - Vocabulary: Matching, Gap-fill - Group Work

In this fun dependent prepositions board game, students collect various prepositions in order to complete dependent prepositions in sentences. The aim of the game is to be the first player to complete all the sentences on their card correctly with... read more

Verb-Preposition Dominoes

Intermediate (B1) 20 minutes
ESL Dependent Prepositions Game - Vocabulary: Matching - Group Work

In this useful dependent prepositions game, students practice common verb-preposition collocations by playing dominoes. The first player tries to combine a verb and preposition to form a sentence or question by placing a domino down either... read more

Who has the same answer?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Dependent Preposition Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Completing, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice

In this free dependent prepositions speaking activity, students ask and answer questions that contain dependent prepositions with verbs and adjectives... read more

Who wrote it?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Dependent Prepositions Activity - Speaking: Sentence Completion, Asking and Answering Questions

In this engaging dependent prepositions speaking activity, students complete true sentences that contain dependent prepositions and then find out who wrote other sentences by asking... read more

Dependent Prepositions Practice

Upper-intermediate (B2) 35 minutes
ESL Dependent Prepositions Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Categorizing, Multiple Choice, Gap-fill, Matching

Here is a comprehensive dependent prepositions worksheet for upper-intermediate students. First, students put verbs, nouns, and adjectives under their dependent prepositions... read more

Let's Discuss

Upper-intermediate (B2) 45 minutes
ESL Dependent Prepositions Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Discussion, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this interesting dependent prepositions speaking activity, students learn 12 dependent prepositions and use them in a group discussion. To start, students complete dependent prepositions... read more