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WORDS

weird: bizarre - UFO: Unidentified Flying Object - sparse: infrequent - remote: distant - off-limits: inaccessible - alike: both, together - oblivious to: not worried by - aliens: people from space - craft: spacecraft - prosaic: ordinary - spokesman: representative - inn: hotel

Prepositions and adverbs. Replace all the missing prepositions and adverbs in this extract from the article.

There have always been strange things in the sky out there. During the 1950's, there were mushroom clouds from above-ground nuclear tests. Locals and visitors alike, oblivious of the risks, used to plan parties round the scheduled explosions, known as "shots". Day and night there were other weird sightings overhead; oddly-shaped aircraft with no markings would roar across the deserted highway right in front of you, when you were all by yourself on the road, then disappear over the hill before you had time to remember that you had a camera in the back of the car.

Prepositions and adverbs exercise: You may want to give your students the list or words and expressionsthat they will need . Here it is: above across always as before by during from in in in front of of out over overhead round with on

Vocabulary task: Some expressions such as tight-lipped and breed rumors may need explaining. Students will suggest their meanings ?

Tight – lipped: 1. having the lips closed tightly

2. not saying much; taciturn or secretive

Breed rumors: 1. Breed - is a specific group of domestic animals having homogeneous appearance (phenotype), homogeneous behavior, and/or other characteristics that distinguish it from other organisms of the same species.

2. Rumor - talk or opinion widely disseminated with no discernible source