Unit 9
4 Imagine that you visited a zoo. Extend these sentences about what you did using these prepositions of time.
before
while
after
for
at
until
Example: I held a snake while Mom took my photo. 1 I held a snake 2 We fed the donkey
3 Mom and Auntie sat in the café 4 We took photos of the parrots 5 The zoo opened 6 It rained
Prepositional phrases
A prepositional phrase is a group of words which begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun: The pup is carried underneath the adult . The mother dances through the night .
1 Find five prepositional phrases between line 18 and the end of the poem on page 105.
2 Copy out the following passage. Circle the preposition and underline the prepositional phrase in each sentence. Until last month there were bats roosting under the eaves of our house. Sometimes they hung from the tree next to the house. Mrs. Allen, who lives down the road, said they were fruit-eating bats. They stick their noses into the paw-paws and suck the sweet flesh. Example: Fruit-eating bats find fallen fruit on the ground.
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• Ask students the meaning of ‘amphibians’ and ‘birds of prey’. Ask what they think a ‘petting zoo’ is. • Extension: Ask what kind of information might be found in the information centre. • Which parts of the zoo would students like to visit and why?
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