Prepositions: Fix 8 Common Errors with the F.U.N. method!

hi i'm rebecca from engvid in this lesson you're going to learn prepositions with fun y fun because F stands for find out what's wrong u stands for understand how to correct it and n stands for nail it or master it with practice okay in this lesson I'll show you how to do all of those things for prepositions of time and place so this is a special kind of lesson this is what we call a diagnostic lesson it helps you to diagnose or to know what's right and what's wrong because sometimes you're using different prepositions but you're not really sure if it's right or wrong and other times you're using it and you're sure it's right but it's actually wrong and you don't want to find out in an exam or some other important situation that it's actually the wrong preposition so it's a good idea to find out right here okay all right so let's get started so what we have here is I have eight sentences and you have to choose between different prepositions now these are not just eight sentences these are also links to separate lessons on each and every one of these points so that in case you get it wrong I will refer you to the lesson that I have a full lesson on that particular point okay so let's get started and see how you're doing number one when did you arrive blank London so here you have to choose between in or on when did you arrive blank London okay what's the right answer when did you arrive in London okay that's the correct answer all right got it when did you arrive in London why in London okay again if you watch my lesson on this subject about arriving you'll see that we talked about three areas I'm gonna show you here just quickly we use arrived in to talk about cities and countries so we say arrived in London arrived in England okay arrived in France arrived in Los Angeles okay cities countries we say arrived at when we're talking about specific places for example arrive at the Hilton Hotel arrive at Heathrow Airport okay when we have the name of the particular place okay or even at the hotel at the airport okay and on we don't really use so much it's more as expressions so arrive on time arrive on schedule okay so here we were talking about London which is a city so we needed arrive in London okay got it but again if you've got it wrong not a problem watch that lesson okay there will be links underneath and you can go to that lesson and really watch it in full master it so you don't have to keep making the same mistake again and again okay watch it once carefully master it understand it and then do the quiz do whatever you need to do so that after that you won't have an issue with that kind of preposition again okay that's the way to master it and that's the way to have fun with prepositions okay number two I'll call her blank next week now your choice is between the preposition in or no preposition so which is it I'll call her blank next week okay so the correct answer is I'll call her next week so we need no preposition so there are some times believe it or not when we don't need of a position and these are four of those words okay when we're talking about something like next week next month next year okay next season next semester or last or every week or each week okay so anything that has next last every or each before that you need no preposition sometimes you don't have to work hard to figure out which preposition you just have to remember so that you need no preposition okay all right number three my exam is blank Monday now your choice is between at or on okay my exam is blank Monday so right answer my exam is on Monday okay why all right let's look over here for a quick review but again there is a complete lesson on this subject and this is like I think the most common question when it comes to preposition this particular one of add on and in okay so has a quick review at we use for very specific times at 7 o'clock at noon at midnight at 7:30 ok very specific on is a little bit wider for one day or one date so on Sunday on January 1st on New Year's Day ok like that and in is the widest so here we can include in October in 1975 in the summer let things like that ok so that's the basic rule here so again here we were talking about Monday so we're saying my exam is on Monday alright good number four they live blank Main Street so do we say at or on they live blank Main Street they live ok stay with me on Main Street ok on Main Street so why let's look if if you had a number hey if you had the actual address then we would say I live at 14 Main Street if you don't have the number and you only have the name of the street or the road or the Avenue or the Boulevard or whatever then you say on okay on Main Street so at 14 Main Street on Main Street or if you just had the city as I explained here then you say in Chicago or in America okay or in Japan and so on all right so that's what what you choose when you're talking about addresses and places so there's a special lesson where I really focus on on those like when you're describing where you live because a lot of people get confused you know in the street on the street floor or on this floor in this floor so all of that I explained in the lesson about prepositions to do with where you live okay all right number five I've worked here blank three years now your choices are for or since I've worked here blank three years this one is confused by lots of students I think in different languages it doesn't always work this way so a lot of students get it mixed up so what do you think it is I've lived here oh sorry I've worked here for four three years okay so why is the answer for three years because we use four followed by a period of time okay for three years for three months for three days okay time period but we use since plus a point in time so since November since 19 since to the year 2012 okay since the summer so since plus a point in time but four plus a period of time okay so here it's for three years it's a period of time a length of time right but if now if I want to say since 2014 okay then it's the point in time when something began so that's something that a lot of students get mixed up so please watch that lesson if you had that one wrong it's not a problem this is to tell you what's wrong okay this is to help you to know and to improve and to master it with fun okay all right number six blank the concert it started raining now your choices are during or while okay blank the concert it started raining so which is it the correct answer is during okay during the concert it started raining so why during and not while do you know why okay so let's look over here we use during plus a noun like here during the concert okay during the concert during the show during the movie during the class during the lesson during the lecture okay all right some kind of a noun okay but while we use plus a clause okay a dependent clause so if I were to change this sentence to use while I would have to say something like while the concert was going on while the concert was going on okay now you have a subject you have a verb but it's not a complete sentence so it becomes something called a dependent clause then you would use while but if you don't have a subject and a verb and you just have a noun right like here then you would say during the concert kkoma it started raining okay but again if you're unsure or you want a little more clarification on that go watch that lesson okay number seven I read it blank the Internet read it in or on okay think about it I read it blank the Internet so the correct answer is I read it on okay on the Internet why is there a way to tell are we just guessing here actually I figured out a way and I made a lesson on it for you to know about that kind of thing so it's like this and this is generally true okay so I there's always of your who leaves says a comment that says what about this situation and then that situation is always an X and exception but the rule I'm telling you applies most of the time okay so it's like this in okay we use when we're talking about paper for example I read it in the newspaper I read it in a magazine I read it in a book I read it in a report something that's physically paper made of paper okay but if it's on some kind of electronic device or he like here on the internet or we could say I read it on my laptop I read it on my cell phone okay I read it on the computer so when it's something electronic usually we're saying on and when is something paper more traditional technology we're saying in okay so that's a way for you to differentiate but again if you want a full clarification of that towards that lesson okay all right number eight we met blank the airport now your choices are to or at we met blank the airport so what's the right answer we met at the airport okay we met at the airport what's the difference okay nothing written down here right now so again I have a lesson about two and at and what I'm explaining there is that two is talking about movement okay for those of you who watch that lesson you'll probably remember me going like this too is movement and at is that you talking about a location okay so here are we talking about movement or are we talking about location we're talking about location at the airport but if we said we drove blank the airport now driving is like a movement right it's a direction so then we would say we we drove to the airport and we arrived at the airport or we met at the airport okay so again that's the difference between two for movement and pad for location all right so how did you do on all of those I hope you did well and I also hope if you didn't do well that you learned a lot because now you know exactly what you need to work on and where you're okay and also even when you got it right if you just guessed it's good to really understand it so that you can nail it and again nail it is an idiom which means Masterman really get it completely right and enjoy learning English because the more you enjoy yourself a bit more fun you're gonna have the more you're gonna learn and the more you're gonna improve okay alright so thanks very much for watching please go to our website at wwlp.com to do a quiz on these okay and again there will be links to each one of these lessons in case you got them wrong go check it out spend some time you already invested in this so might as well follow it up with what you really need okay and subscribe to my channel so I can keep give you lots of other hints about how to learn English faster okay thanks very much for watching bye for now

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Length: 15min 6sec (906 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 10 2019