Grammar: possessive pronouns
Grade 5-6 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of possessive pronouns in the context of belongings
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a short dialogue in the context of belongings
Procedure (33-40 minutes)
1. The teacher introduces the video and asks the students to watch it and answer three questions: "What are the kids going to do?", "What clothes do they want to put on?" and "Why do they want to put on the clothes?". (Task 1, Student's Worksheet) 2. The teacher asks for some feedback
1. The teacher divides the students in groups of 4. 2. The teacher draws the students' attention to the story in the worksheet (Task 2, Student's Worksheet) and asks the students to choose a role and read the story in groups. 3. Optional activity: the teacher asks some students to read to the rest of the class
The teacher highlights the target language on the board and asks what the difference is.
1. The teacher elicits when we use possessive adjectives and when possessive pronouns. 2. The teacher asks to fill in the gaps in the rule (in Russian) (Task 3, Student's Worksheet) 3. The students do the matching task in pairs 4. The teacher asks for feedback and provides some choral drilling of the structures
1. The students do the online grammar tasks. 2. The teacher asks for the feedback 3. The students do Task 4 (Student's Worksheet) and check their ideas in pairs 4. The teacher asks for the feedback 5. The students do Task 5 (Student's Worksheet) and check their ideas in pairs 6. The teacher asks for the feedback
1. The teacher draws the students' attention to the presentation and elicits whose object that is. For example, - Whose book is it? - It's hers. - Whose pens are they? - They're mine. 2. The teacher asks two more pairs to present short dialogues with 2 other sets of pictures. 3. The students work in pairs and change their roles set by set.