1. 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!

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

3. 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?

4. Write 3 sentences using the prepositions below:

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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)

10. PREPOSITIONS OF TIME – exercises

11. 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 _____
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)
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

12. 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.

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