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Prepositions Gymnase du Bugnon CD 20121. At the travel agency : fill in the gaps with a preposition and put the letters in bold in the correctorder to make adverbs.at (4x) during to for under in (5x) by next on- Good morning, young man. I want to book a ticket to Paris.- Good morning, madam. Yes, when would you like to travel?- I want to go away ________ week, as noso _____ as possible actually.- How long do you want to stay?- ______a month.- OK. You can take off _______ Monday _____ 10 am. You will arrive in Paris ______ 11 am.- Marvellous! I love Paris ______ June!- Oh, I’m sorry, but we are ______ December, you couldn’t be in Paris ____ June if you decided to go won________!- Oh! I’m disappointed! It’s cold ______ December, isn’t it?- Yes, I’m afraid it is. We are ____ winter!- And with the jet lag- There is no jet lag ______ France!- Oh! And in case of hijacking!- Take the Eurostar then! The train- Oh yes! I have taken the train frobee ________, ocne _______!- neyclert ___________?- No, sixty years ago. For my wedding! I got married ______ twenty. I went to Twickenham with Albert. Itwas such a nice trip! But it was so long.- Oh, I see. You know, adwayson ___________, the trip to Paris lasts 3 hours.- Am I taking a train or a plane?- You take the tunnel under the Channel.- Are you kidding me on? I can’t do that!- Take a ferry boat then!- Well, that’s a good idea. I prefer to be ______ the water rather than _______. Can I see the picture of theship captain, I want an old one.- But you can’t choose a trip according ______ the captain’s looks! You’ll see him alter _______ _____ theferry. Do you want to travel ______ night? You’ll take the boat and you’ll arrive ______ the following day.- I don’t want to be seasick _______ my trip. It’s so difficult to choose4
Prepositions Gymnase du Bugnon CD 2012- And what about a trip _____ Twickenham again? _______ bus? So you can remember the good olddays? After all2. Once upon a time in space: fill in the gaps with a preposition.Above behind close to from in (3x) in the middle of insideinto (2x) on (2x) through to (2x) underSomewhere over the rainbow, October 12 th 2015My name is Speak. I was born ____ England, in 1965. I’m the captain of this spaceship. I’ve been lost____ space for two weeks. I want to tell you my story before dying. I don’t think we can go back ____the Earth station. We are going nowhere, I’m afraid.Perhaps, I should have learnt to navigate before accepting this mission. But it’s too late now. We arecoming ___ the Moon but we were supposed to go ____ Mars.Everything started three weeks ago. We were ____ a meteorite storm. My second commandant keptsaying: “Be careful ___ your left, a meteor your left I said your left! your left!! The other side!...Quick!... Oh my God!” By criticizing me, he embarrassed me a lot and I lost my confidence. He hadsome difficulty in understanding me.“Could you shut up while going _____ the meteorite field!” Navigating with poor visibility on a busycelestial road may be dangerous. I want you to keep cool. You can sing if you want to since I forgot myradio”, I said. He insisted on taking the controls. He did not like my navigating. I was so irritated that Isat ____ him, I just wanted to see his back. I pretended not to care about this trip. You can’t trustsomeone who puts sweets ____ his ears. “Do you mind me having a cigarette? –A cigarette? Are youcrazy? Smoking is strictly forbidden!”I put an ashtray ___ the table, ___ my football magazine. I lit my cigarette. Soon, it started to raininside, because the smoke alarm ___ our heads set off the sprinklers. We started to run around. Weneeded to stop that. I pressed a button and we heard: “Mind the door, you have started the automaticdoor opening system. Are you sure you want to go outside?”On hearing the startling announcement, my second in command fainted. I screamed “Oh God!” and Iheard: “Door opening impossible. Chewing-gum ___ the opening system.” We were almost saved, but Iforgot the meteorites and before I could do anything, we crashed! Since then, we have been stuck ____a meteorite. I can’t operate the vessel anymore. The meteorite is now in control of our movements. Ihave got used to going where it wants. My second in command went ____ a coma. I put him ___ thetable. We have nothing left to eat, there is only one tin of corned beef left. I want the world to know whathappened. I can’t stop thinking about my future fame.5
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