How To Learn Prepositions
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm were you at the meeting or
on vacation let’s talk about
prepositions today a lot of English
learners have asked me Vanessa how can I
learn prepositions but as your English
teacher I want to tell you something
honestly there’s no simple rule or clear
method for memorizing prepositions but I
want to give you some encouragement yes
you will make some mistakes with
prepositions native teachers make some
mistakes with prepositions but today I
want to give you three tips for how you
can feel more comfortable with
prepositions let’s get started my first
tip is a proverb this proverb is don’t
sweat the small stuff don’t sweat the
small stuff sweat is what is on your
face when you work hard when you’re
outside in the Sun there’s some moisture
or liquid on your face and body because
you’re hot this means stress don’t
stress about small things and
prepositions are small things they
aren’t the most important words in your
sentence so don’t stress about them my
second tip is as you are learning new
expressions remember the entire
expression don’t just remember one word
don’t just remember the preposition so
for example in a lesson a little while
ago I made a video about explain to
someone - is a preposition and with this
expression I encouraged you to remember
the entire thing explained to someone
you can learn these kinds of expressions
through listening reading reading is a
great way to learn new vocabulary
listening reading a lot it’s really
important to be continually exposing
yourself to new English whether you’re
reading books articles listening to
music podcasts as you learn new
expressions
remember the entire thing this will be
much more natural and more interesting
the third tip the final tip is if you
really want to study prepositions if you
really feel like you can do it without
stress I want to give you a technique
that could be useful for you
so I recommend taking an article for
example the full lesson below this video
on my website has many prepositions if
you aren’t on my website if you’re on
youtube or another website just click on
the link below the video and you can go
to my website and see the full article
so as you are looking at this post this
full lesson I recommend taking your pen
or highlighter or something else and
highlighting the prepositions first
start with one preposition for example
of of anytime you see of highlight it
color it underline it and then in a
notebook I recommend having a different
page for each preposition and on your of
page of at the top of the page write the
sentences that use of this way you’re
not memorizing a rule you’re not
memorizing even just an expression
you’re memorizing and remembering the
entire sentence and as you have more and
more sentences that use of you can have
a bigger idea about the context and the
ways that you can use of so if you have
different pages of on in about you can
see all of the different natural
sentences that use these prepositions
and my recommendation is to do this only
if it is not stressful for you if it is
stressful for you remember tip number
one don’t sweat the small stuff don’t
stress about it my question for you
today is a little challenge can you
write a sentence with one two three or
more prepositions below this video I’m
going to write the top 10 prepositions
so that you can use these as a guide you
can use these ones or others in your
sentence and I’ll give some feedback
back for you I’ll write some corrections
and some tips to help you with your
sentence structure I’m looking forward
to seeing your sentences and talk to you
later bye
you