Warm Up and Maintenance:

New Learning and Practice:

Warm Up and Maintenance:

See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.

New Learning and Practice:

lesson plan. Also prepare 9 objects – I use 9 plastic animals to make it fun, but anything will

do, e.g. 9 pens, 9 fruit, 9 toy vehicles, etc.

Start the lesson by standing at the front of the class. Tell everyone to stand up and come up

to the front of the class, standing behind you. This will result in a bit of mayhem. Make sure

you make enough space between you and the wall for everyone to fit comfortably in.

You will now have any empty classroom of desks and chairs in front of you. Take out one of

your objects (I’ll use plastic animals - in this case a toy cat) and place it on the desk in front

of you. Point to it and ask the class “What?” and elicit “A cat”.

them to place the cards where they think they belong to complete the questions. You can

give help if necessary, but I usually find that some students in the class will be able to direct

three different students to place them next to the questions on the desks. You should end

up as follows:

for the animals on the desks.

Now we’ll introduce plurals. Take out two of the same animal (e.g. two dogs) and place

them on the nearest table. Elicit the animals (“What?”, “Dogs.”). Then do the same for the

other two desks (e.g. 2 horses and 2 monkeys) until you have two pairs of animals on each

desk.

Take out the three “What are” cards and also the cards “these?”, “those?” and “those over

there”. Ask three students to place the cards on the correct tables.

Finally, ask three more students to place the “These are”, “Those are” and “Those over

Then put students into pairs to practice asking and answering the questions.

Give students some tape and ask them to stick the demonstrative pronoun cards onto the

board in a logical way, for example:

Sit students back down at their desks and put in pairs. Pairs take it in turns to ask questions

and point to things around the classroom, such as:

As the students are speaking, circulate around the

class and help out with vocabulary and structures.

Before class, print out enough board games for

2-4 around a table and give out the board games.

As a class, read through the instructions and make

Give out the worksheet and have everyone fill in the blanks. Then check answers as a class.

Before class, download and print out the reader "The Secret

Cave" from our website. As you go through each page,

indicate what the kids in the story are pointing at and ask

your students which demonstrative pronoun should be used

and also what it is they are actually pointing at, for example:

Continue through the story, getting everyone to say the pronouns and guess what the things

in the cave are.

After reading the story, give out a reader worksheet to each student and have pairs or small

groups fill in the answers. Finally, quickly read through the story again to check the answers.

Alternatively, watch our video version of the reader on our website.

Let’s finish with a fun, high-energy game. Get everyone to stand up. The teacher says

things that are in the classroom using the demonstrative pronouns and students must run

and touch those objects. So, for example, if the teacher says, “These are pencils” students

Wrap Up:

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