Location games and activities
for ESL kids lessons

Games and activities for teaching “Location” to ESL kids

Preposition treasure hunt

Great game for prepositions of location and yes/no question practice. You need something sticky, like ‘Blu-Tack’ (used for sticking posters to the wall) that you can roll into a ball and stick on anything.

Model first: give the Blu-Tack to a student and indicate that they should put it in a difficult-to-find place. Leave the room and give them a few moments to hide the Blu-Tack (e.g. on the underside of a desk, on the wall behind a curtain, etc.). Then come back in and ask yes/no questions to locate it (Is it on the desk?, Is it near the desk? Is it in the front half of the classroom? Is it under the chair? etc.).

When you finally find it have a student take the questioner’s role. In a large class try having students play in pairs.

Prepositions of location lesson plan

We also have a FREE lesson plan on using prepositions of location which includes games and activities as well as other lesson materials.

Click to download our Prepositions of location lesson plan.

Prepositions of location song

We have a song available for download focusing on prepositions of location called “Where are my things?“.