Level: Beginning 1

1. Subject pronouns.
Objective(s): By the end of this lesson; students will be able to identify
personal pronouns and understand their function. They will also be to use them
correctly

Instructions :

a) First point to yourself and ask students to point to themselves and repeat:
“I”
b) Ask one student to stand up. Place him, a bit on the right, in front you, point
to him and ask the whole class to do the same thing. Say “YOU” and the
whole class repeats.
c) Ask two students, a male and female, to stand up. Place them, a bit on the
left, in front you, point to them and ask the whole class to do the same thing.
Say “YOU” and the whole class repeats.
d) Ask a female student to stand up. Place her, on your right, point to her, but
don’t look at her, and then ask the whole class to do the same thing. Say
“SHE” and the whole class repeats.
e) Ask a male student to stand up. Place him, on your left, point to him, but
don’t look at him, and then ask the whole class to do the same thing. Say
“HE” and the whole class repeats.
f) Take out a pen from your pocket and point to it. Ask the students to do the
same. Say “IT” and the whole class repeats.
g) Go to student “you”, stand close to him and say “WE” and the whole
class repeats. Go and stand close to “you” (2 Students), and say “WE”,
then “he” after “she” and repeat “WE”, students repeat, every time you
stand close to a “subject pronoun”.
h) Ask 2 or 3 female students to stand up, place them behind you, on the right
and then say “THEY”. Students repeat.
i) Ask 2 or 3 male students to stand up, place them behind you on the left and
then say “THEY”. Students repeat.
j) Take two pens and then say IT and IT = “THEY”. Students repeat.
k) Repeat step (g) and continue with the new subject pronouns “they” to
demonstrate “WE”. Students drill.
l) Mix the two groups “they” “h” and “i” into one group to demonstrate
“THEY”. Students repeat.
m) Drill all the subject pronouns and the students repeat after you.
n) Teacher and students drill at the same time.
o) Point SILENTLY to the “students’ subjects” and the whole class
repeats.
p) Keep students at their positions, assign a student to take your
place and conducts the class as you did before.
q) Finally, students go back to their seats and ask a volunteer to repeat steps
a) to l)
r) Repeat the same procedure with other students as many times
as you deem appropriate and necessary
Once the students have mastered the above “Subject pronouns” lesson,
at any time, you can teach them how to conjugate the verb “To Be”, in the
same style. You can make it even easier by using “names”.
I am “name”, you are “name”, He is “name”, She is “name”, it’s a
“pen”, we are “names” ….
N. B.
You can use the same procedure to teach the
“Object Pronouns”.

Level: Beginning 1

2. Possessive Adjectives.
Instructions :
At this stage, the students know and recognize the “Subject pronouns”,
and have learned some basic vocabulary, simple positive and negative
statements with “To be”, as well as questions. Now you can introduce the
possessive adjectives “my”, “your”, “his”, “her”, “our” and “their”. It is a good
idea to stay away from 'its' at this stage.
If you’ve chosen to use names with the “to be” lesson” it would be best to re-
use them with this one as well, in order to save time.
What you have to do, is just practice “my name is ……. (pointing to yourself).
Your name is …………. (pointing to the student in front of you).
His name is …………… (pointing to the male student on your right).
You continue modelling with the other possessive adjectives in the same way.
You can also easily develop the activity to teach them how to ask questions
relevant to possessive adjectives.
(Model a question to yourself: Is your name……? Yes, my name is ………. No,
my name isn’t ……
Is your name …………………..? Yes, your name is …………… No, your name isn’t
………….
Is his name …………………..? Yes, your his is …………….. No, his name isn’t
………………
Continue the same procedure with the rest of the lesson.

Otherwise, it’s a good idea to revise the questions what’s this, what’s
that, what are these and what are those?, first, if you want!.
Then; every student takes an item from his stuff and stands up. This item could
be a pen, a bag, a book, earrings, glasses etc.
Next, name all the objects the students keep in their hands, by applying the
above questions. What’s this? It’s a pen. What are these? They are glasses. And
so on.
Choral repetitions are very useful to learn new vocabulary.
Arrange students on identical positions as those relevant to “Subject
pronouns”, and “To be”.
After that, point to your pen or the object that’s in your hand and ask, few
times, in a clear voice, “whose is the pen?”. The students repeat after you.
Point to your pen and answer: It’s my pen. Tell the students to repeat “It’s my
pen.
Each student shows the object in his hand and repeats: It/This is my ………/ the
other students repeat after him or her.
Look at the student in front of you, point to the object in his hand and say: this
is your “book” for example. The other students repeat.
Point to the female student on your right and say: this is her “purse”. The other
students repeat.
Point to the male student on your left and say: this is his …... students repeat.
Look at the two students in front of you and say: these are your ………….s.
students repeat.
Point to yourself, to all the students and the classroom, say this is our class,
students repeat
Point to the students behind you and say this is their ……………/ these are their
……………..s. Students repeat.
Start again from this is my
Silently; point to the students and their belongings, in order,
and let them chorally practice.
Then, silently; point to the students and their belongings, in
disorder, and let them chorally practice.
Finally, arrange students into a line and ask one of them to take your place as a
teacher in order to position his classmates and teach them “Possessive
pronouns”.
Repeat the same procedure with other students as many times as you
deem appropriate and necessary

“Pronouns”.
 You / You You / You
are are
You You
Your / Your /
Yours Yours

He / He is I / I am She / She is
Him Me Her
His / His My / Mine Her / Hers

They / They /
They are They are
Them Them
Their / Their /
Theirs Theirs