tailieunhanh - Grammar for everyone part 8

The Australian Council for Educational Research plays an important role in creating and disseminating knowledge and providing tools that can be used to improve learning, Barbara Dykes is to be commended for the outstanding job she has done with this excellent publication. | PRONOUNS 39 Activities pronouns 1. Students rewrite sentences replacing the nouns with suitable pronouns. 2. Students in pairs attempt to have a conversation without using any pronouns. Suggest subjects such as a. What you did yesterday . b. A teacher reprimanding a student for a bad piece of work . 3. Students are given cloze sentences with a choice of pronouns for filling the gaps. a. Who drove the car David drove. them it his we b. Who gave Lucy the chewing gum .did. him those he this c. We the show. I they him us d. David . he they us this e. Jenny was at the show. . them her we you 4. Students make example sentences using pronouns correctly orally on the board or in their grammar exercise books. 40 GRAMMAR FOR EVERYONE A 5. Choose pronouns to fill in the blanks. a. Michael of. enjoyed. ripe and juicy. d. Bella. it too. the ever had. g. and get more of. h. a good idea. i. now. take this basket to carry. 6. Students draw a flowchart for pronouns showing personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns. Further categories can be added as they are learnt. Personal we PRONOUNS _I 1 Demonstrative this Checklist pronouns Students should now be able to give the meaning of the word pronoun define the word pronoun - what is a pronoun with emphasis on the point that a pronoun takes the place of a noun so the noun is not mentioned explain why we have pronouns in our language pick out or mark the nouns in a given passage replace nouns with pronouns in a given passage Verbs We can t do without them Definition The word verb comes from the Latin verbum meaning word . Verbs are doing being or having words. Before learning about verbs students should understand the term noun recognise common and proper nouns understand the term pronoun recognise most personal pronouns be able to explain their purpose It is a good idea to teach verbs next as a noun