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Personal pronouns

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Elementary+/A2
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45-60 min
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In this elementary-level ESL lesson plan, students will take a closer look at personal pronouns, focusing on their object and possessive forms. By the end of the session, students will better understand these pronouns and how to use them correctly in sentences.

The lesson plan includes a suggested boardwork example demonstrating one way to present the target language. This will be followed by several writing activities where students will work together to construct sentences using personal pronouns. As usual, we will wrap up the session with a fun classroom game, reinforcing the newly learned language concepts.

Lesson Outline
Activities
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Boardwork
1An interesting sentence
2Swap out
3Party time
Games
1Dice: Personal pronouns
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Classroom activities

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Use of the board

The students take a closer look at pronouns, as well as their respective object and possessive forms.

Start off by writing a sentence on the board that contains a subject, object and possessive pronoun. Have the students identify each of these and highlight it on the board. Finally, as the colour-coded text suggests, the students will work in groups to complete all of the object and possessive pronouns.

EFL - ESL Lead-in activity | teaching personal pronouns

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An interesting sentence

For this writing activity, students will work in groups to come up with example sentences for object and possessive pronouns. 

If you have pre-taught the target grammar on the board, have the students work in groups of 3-4 to create sentences that utilise this language. Encourage them to try and combine them like the example sentence from the board work. Add a few more examples to help them.

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Swap out

Students have to rewrite statements using personal pronouns.

Start by adding the following sentences to the board:

  1. John likes Mark and Peter's dog.
  2. The freezer is broken.
  3. Claire and I are going to visit Connor tomorrow
  4. That car is Emma's
  5. My dad gave my brother and I some money.
  6. Arsenal is a really good team.

Work out the solution to the first sentence on the board with the class. Try to elicit the correct answer from your students.

E.g. 1) He likes their dog.

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Party time

A writing activity where the students practise using the target language when talking about a past event.

Tell your students that they are going to write about the most recent birthday party that they attended. Before they start, elicit some of the questions that they would expect to answer and write them on the board:

  • Whose birthday was it?
  • How old was he/she?
  • Where was it?
  • Who was there?
  • What present did you get him?
  • What presents did he get?

 

Classroom games

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Dice: Personal pronouns

Teams have to make a funny sentence using elements that have been decided by the throw of the dice. 

You'll need dice or dice app on your phone (There are plenty of free ones out there.). Divide the class into two teams and make three lists of 6 random subjects, objects, and possessive pronouns and number them. Also, add a list of 6 random verbs and number them. 

On each turn, you'll roll the dice four times and mark the numbers on the board. The teams must come up with a funny sentence that uses as many of the pronouns as possible, along with the verb. 

Give one point for each correctly placed pronoun and a bonus point to the team with the funniest sentence. Set a time limit based on the ability of the class.