Fill in the correct prepositions.

1) Sarah was lying ….. the lawn reading a book.

2) There was a big crowd ….. the shop waiting for it to open.

3) There’s a cafe ….. the mountain. You can have a coffee there before you walk down again.

4) We live ...... the High Street ..... the sixth floor.

5) Would you like to study ….. college?

6) I was tired this morning. I stayed ….. bed until 10 o’clock.

7) Write your name ….. the top of the page and your address ..... the back page.

8) I was sitting ….. the back of the car when it crashed.

9) I talked to some nice people ….. the party.

10) Where were you this morning? – I was ….. the airport.

11) Will you be ….. work this afternoon?

12) Where’s Tom? – He’s ….. the kitchen making some coffee.

13) John lives ….. a small village ….. the South-West of England.

14) Kevin’s sister is very ill. She’s ….. hospital.

15) Would you like to live ….. another country?

16) Tom's brother is a sailor. But now he is not ..... sea. He's having days off.

Put in the missing prepositions of place.

1) My mother lives ..... the farm and my children stay with her every summer.

2) We met ..... the bus-stop.

3) The car stopped ..... the traffic lights and some passengers got out.

4) I was sitting ..... the bank of the river watching the sunrise.

5) The man has got an alibi. He was ..... the dentist's between 2 and 3 o'clock.

6) Last week we were ..... the disco.

7) Mary is studying law ..... university.

8) The Romans founded a small settlement ..... the river Thames and called it Londinium.

9) My parents prefer to live ..... the country because it's healthier there.

10) In most countries people drive ..... the right.

11) There was a signature ..... the bottom of the page.

12) The television is ..... the corner of the room.

13) Who's that girl ..... the photo? I can't recognise her.

14) Walk along the street then turn right ..... the corner and there you'll see the market.

15) It was hot last summer, so the children enjoyed swimming ..... the sea.

16) We read about this invention ..... the magazine.

Complete this story of an imaginary person who spent three years alone on an island. Put in the missing prepositions of place and time.

(1) ..... Thursday evening (2) ..... October 1931 (3) ..... about eight o'clock the ship "Voyager" sank. The ship had been sailing (4) ..... the end of September, when she left London, and was on her way (5) ..... England (6) ..... Australia. The only survivor was an Englishman called Batly, who saved himself by swimming two miles. He spent three years (7) ..... an island (8) ..... the middle of the Indian Ocean.

The island was quite small, and he could walk round the whole of it (9) ..... an hour. He climbed up the one hill and put a flag (10) ..... it as a signal. (11) ..... night Batly slept (12) ..... a cave, where he felt quite (13) ..... home. (14) ..... the day, he often fished with a home-made net. He cooked the fish (15)..... a wood fire.

Batly stayed (16) ..... the island (17) ..... almost three years, (18) ..... August 1934. A ship was sailing past the island, and the captain saw Batly's signal. The sailor found a man looking rather like a gorilla. Batly was soon (19)..... Australia.

Translate into English. Use the prepositions of place.

1) Никого нет в саду.

2) На твоей рубашке грязное пятно.

3) Когда я хожу в театр, я предпочитаю сидеть в переднем ряду.

4) Мюнхен – большой город на юге Германии.

5) Телевизор находится в углу комнаты.

6) На углу улицы есть телефон-автомат.

7) Я сидел на заднем сидении машины, когда мы потерпели аварию.

8) Напиши свое имя на обратной стороне конверта.

9) Я буду на работе до 5.30, а дома весь вечер.

10) Я видел Джона на футбольном матче в прошлую субботу.

11) Я была у Джуди дома прошлым вечером.

12) Мне понравился фильм, но в кинотеатре было очень холодно.

13) Встреча прошла в королевском зале.

14) Вот список покупок. Не покупай того, чего нет в списке.

15) Собрание проходило в штаб-квартире компании.

16) Дом Анжелы находится в конце улицы.

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