➡️ Grammar A2-13: Prepositions of movement

A place word freezes the picture; a movement word makes it move. This material teaches the seven path words of A2 by drawing them: each preposition gets a small diagram in which the grey shape is the place and the red line is the route, so across cuts over, along follows, through goes in and out again, and past goes by without stopping. The decision is turned into four questions in a fixed order — does anything move, is only the end named, is a door crossed, what shape does the path draw — and two worked examples run a real sentence through all four. The contrast that decides everything, in against into, is settled with a two-photograph test: one picture is enough for a place word, but a path word needs a before and an after. A second comparison separates across, along and through by asking what is touching you. Practice runs across four scored sets of eight, seven, eight and eight items, a twelve-word sorter that splits path words from the place words of A1-23, seven commit-first drawing cards, six sentences to repair and three watch-out boxes, including the past and passed trap. Every answer explains the reason, never just the verdict. Teacher notes give a fifty-minute sequence, the one board move that replaces all the talking, and the Cambridge A2 Key tasks these words carry.