Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 12.5 - Lookback for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the word webs and cross out the place / thing which does not go with the preposition of movement.
  2. Work in pairs. Student A: choose one of the prepositions. Say three things that can come after it. Student B: guess the preposition.

Answer

a)

  • through → a road
  • down → a country
  • over → a bathroom
  • into → some stairs
  • across → a person

b)

  • through → a forest, a building, a station, the room
  • down → a street, a mountain, a hill
  • over → a building, a hill, a bridge
  • into → a forest, a swimming pool, a building, the station, a city
  • across → a road, a street, a river