Test Your Prepositions [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION For the majority of students, learning English prepositions is both very difficult and very time-consuming. Test Your Prepositions tries to tackle this problem by providing concentrated practice on various prepositions in a stimulating and interesting way. Altogether 970 items are tested, ranging from prepositions followed by nouns to prepositions after adjectives, verbs and nouns, to prepositions of place and time to phrasal verbs and idioms. Test Your Prepositions forms part of the Test Your Vocabulary series and, in keeping with the series, the emphasis is on variety, with tests ranging from gap-filling exercises to multiple-choice, crosswords, rewriting sentences, cartoons, word association, finding the misprints in newspaper headlines, and so on. There is even a test where the student has to fill in the missing prepositions in various jokes. (Who said learning prepositions has to be boring!) Test Your Prepositions is for intermediate/advanced learners and can be used in class with a teacher or for self-study. To facilitate the latter, answers to the tests are included at the back of the book. TO THE STUDENT This book will help you to learn or consolidate a large number of prepositions. But in order for the new prepositions to become "fixed" in your mind, you will need to test yourself again and again. Here is one method you can use to help you learn these new prepositions. 1 Read the instructions carefully and try the test, writing ypur answers in pencil. 2 When you have finished, check your answers and correct any mistakes you have made. Pay special attention to the prepositions you didn't know or got wrong. 3 Try the test again 5-10 minutes later. You can cover up your answers or get a friend to test you. Repeat this until you can remember all the prepositions. 4 Rub out your answers. 5 Try the test again the following day. Again pay special attention to any prepositions that cause difficulty. (You might even try making up your own sentences with the "difficult" prepositions.) 6 Finally, plan to try the test at least twice within the following month. After this, most of the prepositions should be "fixed" in your mind.