Introduction: Hello, hello. Hey, beautiful people. My name is Foster, I am an English teacher and welcome to the Prepositions Perfection Challenge. Prepositions are difficult, but we're going to make them easy. Prepositions are complicated, we are going to make them simple. Prepositions make most students anxious and nervous. We're going to teach you how to use prepositions with confidence and we're going to have some fun at the same time. So here we go, 30 days of prepositions, let's get started.

Hello, hello. Hey sweet people and welcome to another session of the Prepositions Perfection Challenge. My Name is Foster still, I'm still an English teacher and today we're going to continue talking about prepositions, but today we're also going to talk about squirrels. Yes, squirrels… Esquilos! 

In almost every challenge, I always talk about squirrels whenever you are learning something new and difficult in English, for some reason we always have to talk about squirrels. So why are we talking about squirrels today? So far, we have talked a lot about prepositions, what are prepositions and we've looked at some examples and a lot of this might still be a little bit complicated for you or a little bit theoretical. 

And when I was a little kid, the way I learned prepositions was to think about a squirrel and a squirrel in relation to a tree, okay? So essentially you want to think, "What can a squirrel do to a tree?" And remember that we have already mentioned this, but we have prepositions of time, place and movement. Those are the three big categories of prepositions. And when we're talking about a squirrel and a tree, we're principally talking about prepositions of place. Because naturally a squirrel is not looking at his watch and thinking about the past and the future and thinking about time. So most of these examples have to do with place.

But still, this exercise of thinking about squirrels and trees, it can be really useful for a lot of students just to get a better idea of, "Okay, what are prepositions?" We say prepositions are connection words that really demonstrate the relationship between one thing and another thing. And that can seem really complicated until you have a good image or idea in your head. 

So the way I learned this when I was a little boy. I still am a little boy, but when I was a… Even littler boy, what I learned was "What can a squirrel do to a tree? What is the squirrel relationship to a tree?" So for example: 

- A squirrel can go up a tree.

- A squirrel can go down a tree. 

- A squirrel can go above a tree. 

- A squirrel can go below a tree. 

These are all prepositions. Up, down, behind, below. So what is the squirrel doing to the tree? 

- A squirrel can go into the tree. 

- A squirrel can go in a tree, inside a tree. 

- A squirrel can go onto a tree. 

- A squirrel can go over a tree. 

- A squirrel can go under, around, towards a tree. 

So you kind of see what I am saying? There are a lot of different things that a squirrel can do to a tree and this really demonstrates the relationship between a squirrel and a tree, but more importantly, it kind of gives you a concrete example of what a preposition is, why we need them, why they are important. 

So if at any point during this challenge you're getting really confused and you're kind of missing the point. If you're really studying prepositions and then you think, "Ah.. I don't even know why we do this, I don't know why we have prepositions." You can always take a moment to think about the squirrel and the tree. 

So, a very short lesson today guys. A little bit silly, but it is something that has always stuck with me and it was very useful for me as a little boy. So I hope it will be useful for you. And I'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Thanks a lot, bye bye.