Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id TAA29379; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:06:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 19:06:59 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199912120001.UAA22819@albatros.cnb.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Michael Wildhack " <wildhack@albatros.cnb.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:3846] more Re: Teaching prepositions, etc. X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Content-Length: 912 Lines: 28 Sorry to be running late with this - but ... we sit _on or upon_ a stool or bench or chair bottom/seat and we sit _within the embrace of_ a chair ... (think arm-chair...or on an airplane ) thus we sit IN a chair - or those wrap-around school desks - AT a table or office-type desk - something in front of us - UNDER a canopy or roof or ceiling, etc. IN, INSIDE OF or WITHIN a car, airplane, garden, room, house, etc. ON a table, stool, bench, rock, the ground, the grass, etc. NEAR s.o. or s.t. IN FRONT OF or BEHIND s.o. or s.t. As a side note, I think it helps to remember that there are MANY ways in English to express ourselves - limiting ourselves and our students to the few words found in a small pocket dictionary seems to be counter productive. Musings from Michael in Cochabamba 8^)} Michael D. Wildhack Casilla 389, Cochabamba, Bolivia 00591 4 29 11 19 <wildhack@albatros.cnb.net>
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