Orientating a scene: prepositions in travel guides
Goals
- To understand how prepositions construct meaning in a non-fiction text.
- For students to apply this to their own writing.
What and how do prepositions mean?
Begin by showing your class a list of prepositions (or - even better - ask them to generate the list themselves). Display the list on the board, and ask: what do prepositions do and how do they do it? The discussion should arrive at the following conclusions:
