Personal
pronouns
GRAMMAR
      LEVEL     NUMBER      LANGUAGE
   Beginner   A1_1013G_EN   English
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Goals
■   Learn about personal
    pronouns
■   Practise using personal
    pronouns to introduce
    others
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You and I are friends.
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Personal pronouns
■    Personal pronouns replace direct nouns (names of people, places or things) in a
     sentence.
    ■ Use he for a man, she for a woman and it for a place or thing.
            Peter likes music.                           He likes music.
             Julia is a doctor.                         She is a doctor.
           The dog is friendly.                           It is friendly.
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Singular personal pronouns
 These are the singular personal pronouns:
                 I                            I am a teacher.
               you                           You are a student.
                he                            He likes music.
               she                            She is a doctor.
                it                              It is a bird.
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Capital letters
     The singular personal pronoun I is always a capital letter.
    I am Daniel and you are Mary.               You are Mary and I am Daniel.
    He likes pizza and I like pasta.             I like pasta and he likes pizza.
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              I
    I am busy.
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            you
Will you marry me?
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           we
We are dancing.
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            he
    He is nice.
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           she
She is at work.
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             they
They are best friends.
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                  it
It is a beautiful sunny day!
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Find the opposite
   ____________                       you
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Which is not a person?
             you                      he
             she                      it
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Choose the correct personal pronoun
  I              she                  he   it
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Plural personal pronouns
 Plural personal pronouns take the place of direct nouns in sentences when there
 are two or more nouns.
     Andrew and I are friends.                        We are friends.
    You and James are students.                      You are students.
    Sarah and Julia are sisters.                     They are sisters.
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Plural personal pronouns
 These are the plural personal pronouns:
               you                            You are students.
                we                             We are friends.
               they                           They are sisters.
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Plural of you
     There is only one form of you for singular and plural nouns.
           You (singular)                             You are a student.
            You (plural)                               You are students.
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Match the pronouns with the pictures
1. you
2. he
3. it
4. we
        A           B                 C   D
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  Complete the dialogue
 1.
 I     Hello, _____________ am Colin.
you
                                                                                           2.
                                                          Hi! I _____________ Caroline.   am
                                                                                           is
 3.
 Is    _____________ this Room 3?
 It
                                                                                          4.
                                                          Yes, _____________ is.          it
                                                                                          he
 5.
       Are __________ here for the English
you
       lesson?
 I
                                                                                           6.
                                                          Yes, I _____________ .          am
                                                                                          are
 7.
       Great! _____________ are in the same
 We
       class.
They
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Which personal pronoun is correct?
1.   _____________ is my brother.
       a. You
       b. She
       c. He
2.   Is _____________ a chicken?
       a. I
       b. it
       c. they
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Who is in the photo?
        Photo 1: Michael                     Photo 2: Maria
        Photo 3: Rocket                      Photo 4: Peter
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Who is in the photo?
     Photo 1: Michael                            Photo 2: Maria
       Michael is a student.                      Maria is a teacher.
        He likes to learn.                        She likes to teach.
        He is from France.                       She is from England.
      Photo 3: Rocket                            Photo 4: Peter
         Rocket is a dog.                         Peter is a baby.
         He likes to run.                         He likes to eat.
          He is friendly.                        He likes shoes too.
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Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
1. Peter is a baby.                          He is a baby.
                                             __________________________________
2. Maria likes to teach.
                                             __________________________________
                                             _______________________________________
3. Rocket is a dog.
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Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
                                            __________________________________
1. Michael is a _______________.
                                            __________________________________
                                            __________________________________
2. Maria is a _______________.
                                            __________________________________
                                            _______________________________________
3. Rocket likes to
   _______________.                         _____________________________
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Replace the noun with a personal pronoun
1. Michael is from                          __________________________________
   _______________.
                                            __________________________________
2. Michael likes to                         __________________________________
   _______________.
                                            __________________________________
                                            _______________________________________
3. Rocket is _______________.
                                            _____________________________
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Who is in the picture?
                Make up a character!
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Talk about some famous people
                     ■       Choose some famous people or
                             celebrities.
                     ■       Use personal pronouns to talk about
                             them.
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Reflect on the goals
             Go back to the second slide of the lesson and check
               if you have achieved all the goals of the lesson.
                                yes                 no
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       _______________________________              _______________________________
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Reflect on this lesson
          Think about everything you have seen in this lesson.
       What were the most difficult activities or words? The easiest?
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                                                   If you have time, go over
                                                 the most difficult slides again
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     Exercise p.14
     me
     Exercise p.15
     it
     Exercise p.16
     she
     Exercise p.20
     1. C – 2. D – 3. A – 4. B
     Exercise p. 21
     1. I – 2. am – 3. Is – 4. it – 5. you – 6. am – 7. We
     Exercise p. 22
     1. He – 2. it
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     Exercise p. 25
     2. She likes to teach. 3. He is a dog.
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     1. He is a student. 2. She is a teacher. 3. He likes to run.
     Exercise p. 27
     1. He is from France. 2. He likes to learn. 3. He is friendly.
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Homework
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Find the missing words
                                                       X   V   B   T   I   Q   R   L   A   H   P   Q   F
ACROSS
                                                       I   L   W   J   D   P   Y   J   N   Q   M   S   M
1. Karl and I are friends.                             S   N   D   C   C   J   O   H   I   T   D   T   R
   _____________ are friends.
                                                       M   B   L   X   B   F   N   S   A   W   H   K   L
2. Tim and Ken are brothers.
   _____________ are brothers.                         L   O   O   N   B   S   F   R   V   X   D   U   Y
3. I _____________ from Poland.                        A   Z   P   U   Y   C   A   D   R   Y   X   W   R
                                                       J   G   A   W   E   D   S   G   K   R   Q   N   T
                                                       H   B   D   F   K   V   T   F   S   D   A   H   F
DOWN:
                                                       C   F   H   Z   A   J   S   N   L   F   S   Z   J
1. He _____________ in my class.                       L   X   F   P   S   L   Q   Y   T   P   D   L   K
2. _____________ is a big country.                     O   L   S   Y   R   M   W   G   H   T   G   H   S
3. Plural of “you”.                                    R   J   T   O   E   C   F   R   E   A   F   A   V
                                                       S   W   S   U   J   X   O   E   Y   F   R   I   L
                                                       X   T   H   G   K   S   M   P   L   D   H   S   N
                                                       V   A   M   D   H   A   D   W   R   M   J   J   R
                                                       N   Q   P   F   L   D   L   O   N   K   S   Q   T
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Complete the table
             _______________
             _______________
             _______________
                     it
                  you
             _______________
             _______________
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Text at the beginning
                Go back to the text on page 3
                    and find examples of
            the grammar topic of this lesson in it.
                     Write them down.
                                          Copy parts of the text
                                          that are examples of
                                           topic of the lesson.
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Find the verbs
     Find the verbs in this lesson and write them down.
         Which are new? Do you know all of them?
                    Look these words up.
                                  Verbs
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Sentences in the first person plural
           Choose five sentences from this lesson.
      Copy them and write them about you and a friend.
      Examples:
      I don’t understand
          → My friend Maria and I don’t understand.
      He has a book
          → We have a book
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Easy or difficult?
             Is the grammar topic of this lesson…
                       easy or difficult?
     Write down what is difficult for you and what is easy.
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     Exercise p.24
     you – he – she – we - they
                                            Homework answer key
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