PREPOSITIONS / ENGLISH GRAMMAR / Preposiciones/ Gramática Inglesa

Good morning everybody, today we're going to look at  prepositions "AT   /   IN " .

Buenos días a todos, hoy vamos a ver las preposiciones AT / IN .

**AT   /    IN  are prepositions of PLACE ( son preposiciones de LUGAR). The meaning of AT is as you don't enter a place and IN shows that you have already entered.  (El significado de AT es como si no entráseis en un lugar y el de IN muestra que ya habéis entrado.  In Spanish we usually translate both "EN" (en español solemos traducir las dos por EN).

**SOME EXAMPLES:  at home (en casa) , at school  (en el cole), in my house (en mi casa), at the door (en la puerta), in hospital (dentro del hospital), etc.

**However, we can find some typical expressions with At or In that we have to learn and not to think of the meaning or words that are with them.

Sin embargo, podemos encontrar expresiones típicas con AT o IN que tenemos que aprendernos y no pensar en el significado o palabras que van con ellas.

EXERCISE
Write  AT  or  IN   in each blank.
Escribid  AT  o  IN en cada hueco.

1.- Miss Connor is _______ a showroom.      She is ______ a meeting.
2.- Mr Smith is ______ a reception desk.      Mary is ______ home.
3.- You are ______the airport and Mr Fisher is _______ a restaurant.
4.- Mr Harris is living _____ 2, South Street.
5.- My friend lives _____ an appartment _____ the top of a building.
6.- It's the highest building ______ the city.
7.- You'll find her ______ the service desk.
8.- Don't waste too much time trying to repair the TV _____ the house.
9.- Just put it _____ the van and bring it back here.
10.- _____ work, _____ Madrid, ______ September.
11.- _____ the park, ______ the zoo, ______  Miami.
12.- ____ front of the window,  _____ 6 o'clock,  _____ bed.

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SOLUTION
1 in  /  at
2 at  /  at
3 at  /  in
4 at
5 in  /  at
6 in
7 at
8 in
9 into
10 at  /  in  /  in
11 at  /  at  /  in
12 in  /  at  /  in


READING
A DOCTOR'S STORY

A doctor was once teaching a class of medical students at a famous hospital in Edinburgh.  An injured man was brought in and the doctor turned to one of the students and asked him:
-"What's wrong with this man"?
-"I don't know, sir", the students answered.
-"Can I examine him and find out"?

-"There's no need to examine him", said the doctor.  You should know without asking questions.  He has hurt his right knee.  Didn't you notice the way he walked?  He hurt it by burning it in the fire.  You see his trouser leg is burnt away at the knee.  This is Monday morning.  Yesterday was fine, but on Saturday the roads were wet and muddy.  The man's trousers are muddy all over.  The man fell down on Saturday night.

The doctor then turned to the man and said:  "You had your wages on Saturday and went to a bar and drank too much.  You got wet and muddy on the way home.  You tried to dry your clothes by the fire when you got home.  Because you had drunk too much, you fell on the fire and burnt your knee.  Is that right?

-Absolutely right!, sir, said the man.

**Why do you think that the doctor has guessed the man's problem?


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