Solve the riddle to proceed! This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. Solve the riddle to proceed!

The answer is TIME. How good is your time management?

Some time-management strategies: Make a time diary, Learn to say "No“, Don't be a perfectionist, Multitask, Time-Based, To-Do List, Reward yourself when you do something on time… Which of the above-mentioned strategies seem the most/least useful?

Write 3 sentences using the prepositions below:

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME ON AT IN One point of time: Match the prepositions (AT, IN, ON) with the appropriate group: ON 1) ______Sunday, ________12 April 1983, _______Christmas Day AT 2)_____ noon, ______ night,______midnight (= a part of the day) _____5 o’clock, _____present, ________Christmas IN 3) _____September (= months), ________1961 (= years) _______ the morning/ afternoon/ evening (= parts of the day) ______(the) spring, ______ (the) winter (= seasons)

Extended time: SINCE FOR BY - FROM...TO (UNTIL, TILL) - UNTIL/TILL - I haven’t seen him since Monday. ( since + a certain point in time) FOR I waited for two hours. Nobody has written to him for five years. (for + a period of time) BY - I can see you by Monday. ( No later then Monday, at any time up to Monday) FROM...TO (UNTIL, TILL) - I can see you from 10 to 2 o’clock UNTIL/TILL - I cannot see you until/till three o’clock

Match the preposition with its meaning: Examples: 1 He ​yawned through(out) the ​performance. 2 They ​work during the ​night and ​sleep by ​day. 3 They drove through the city last night. 4 They departed during the night. Use: a) from the beginning to the end of a period of time b) at one point within a period of time or a process c) going in or starting at one side and coming out or stopping at the other side of

1 He ​yawned through(out) the ​performance. a) from the ​beginning to the end of a ​period of ​time 2 They ​work during the ​night and ​sleep by ​day. a) from the ​beginning to the end of a ​period of ​time 3 They drove through the city last night. c) going in or starting at one side and coming out or stopping at the other side of 4 They departed during the night. b) at one point within a period of time or a process

Translate the following sentences: Nazovi me prije podne. Call me before noon. Nakon doručka nazvala je taksi. After breakfast she phoned for a taxi. prije 9 sati (before 9 o’clock) poslije 9 sati (after nine o’clock)

PREPOSITIONS OF TIME – exercises

Insert the following prepositions of time: at, on, in, after, before, from, till/until, by, during, for, since. 1 The museum is closed _______ Mondays. Otherwise, it opens every day of the week ______ 9.00 a.m., and remains open _______ 5.00 p.m.. All visitors must be out of the building _____ 17.05. ON/ AT/ UNTIL (TILL)/ BY _______ the summer months, the reading room will be open _______ the mornings, ________ four hours, namely ________ 8 a.m. _________12. DURING/ IN / FROM/ TILL (TO) 3 How long have these regulations been in force? _________ about six months, __________ last January. FOR/ SINCE I arrived a few minutes ___________ seven o’clock, so I was in time to catch the 6.58 train. BEFORE The dog recognized his master _________ so many years of being parted. AFTER

Translate the following sentences from Croatian into English: Naš autobus stigao je u 18:30. Our bus arrived at 6:30 p.m. b) Idem u Zagreb u ponedjeljak. I’m going to Zagreb on Monday. c) Živim ovdje 10 godina. I have lived here for 10 years. d) Rođen je 1995. He was born in 1995. e) Potpisali smo ugovor 8. prosinca 1999. We signed the contract on 8 December, 1999.

Bibliography: Babić, Istočnica: “Pregled gramatike engleskog jezika s vježbama i rješenjima”, Dušević & Kršovnik d.o.o., Rijeka, 2000