Possessive pronouns

1. English file Pre-
Intermediate
Unit 8C – Possessive pronouns

2. • Famous stories – pictures quiz (5 mins)
• Discussion questions reading and stories (10 mins)
• Listening – Story – discussing photos (5 mins)
• Listening – Story – comprehension (5 mins)
• Listening – Story – new vocabulary (5 mins)
• Listening – Story – part 2 – lead in (2 mins)
• Listening – Story – part 2 - comprehension (5 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – reading aloud (5 mins)
• Pronunciation focus – reading aloud practice (5 mins) 50
• Famous stories quiz (10 mins)
• Grammar – possessive pronouns – highlighting (5 mins)
• Grammar – possessive pronouns – Presentation (5 mins)
• Grammar – possessive pronouns – exercises (10 mins)
• Grammar – possessive pronouns – speaking practice (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – adverbs of manner – highlighting (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – adverbs of manner – forming (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – adverbs of manner – exercises (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – adverbs of manner – Game - how would you? (5 mins)
• Words from the class vocabulary quiz (5 mins)

3. Little red
riding
hood
Goldilocks
and the
three
bears
Peter Pan
The
tortoise
and the
hare

4. • What sorts of things do you enjoy reading?
• How often do you read something in English?
• Do you have any favourite books from when you
were a child? Which ones?
• If you have children, how often do you read with
/ to them? (If not how often would you read to
them?)

9. 1. He gave Hartley Vivienne’s address. He offered to follow her.
2. He left the detective’s office and went to find where Vivienne
lived.
3. She looked about 21, her hair was red gold, and her eyes sea-
blue.
4. Because she didn’t answer his letter.

14. 1. She doesn’t think she would enjoy living in the suburbs.
2. He told her she could come to the city whenever she wants.
3. At the Montgomerys’.
4. Because she has someone else.

17. 1. He said Héloise must go.
2. She promised Hartley she would be his.

19. 1. Hartley’s wife
2. The Montgomerys’ cook
3. Hartley’s cook

21. The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter was
rejected many times, so she self-published 250
copies. It has now sold _ _ million.
4 5
A) 15 B) 20 C) 45

22. Roald Dahl’s book The Twits was triggered by
his desire to ‘do something against ___________’
– he had a strong dislike of them.
beards
A) beards B) old people C) country people

24. Dr Seuss’ first book was rejected by over _ _ publishers; his
books have now sold over 500 million copies worldwide.
2 0
A) 10 B) 15 C) 20

25. On average, a copy of Eric Carle’s The
Very Hungry Caterpillar is sold
somewhere in the world every ________.
A) minute
B) 5 minutes
C) 10 minutes
minute

26. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series,
does not have a middle name. Joanne Rowling
included “K” for Kathleen after her ____________.
grandmother
A) daughter
B) mother
C) grandmother

27. Lewis Carroll cast himself in Alice in
Wonderland. His part? The _______.
A) the rabbit
B) the dodo
C) the mad hatter
dodo

28. my
mine

34. Hers
him
their
ours
theirs
us
our
its

35. 1. It's my book. (pause) It's mine.
2. It's her scarf. (pause) It's hers.
3. They're our coats. (pause) They're ours.
4. It's his bike. (pause) It's his.
5. It's your phone. (pause) It's yours.
6. It's their house. (pause) It's theirs.
7. They're your sweets. (pause) They're yours.
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37. dreamily (line 24) slowly (line 25)
completely (line 35) suddenly (line 43)
masterfully (line 49) calmly (line 51)

38. Adjective Adverb
quiet quietly
Add -ly
sad sadly
possible possibly Change –ble to –bly
comfortable comfortably
lazy lazily Remove y add -ily
angry angrily
good well
Irregular
fast fast
hard hard
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39. • angrily
• lazily
• quietly
• sadly
• seriously
• slowly

40. sadly
angrily
slowly
quietly
lazily
seriously

42. Take a card from the pile and then describe it to the other members of the
group.
You can give clues to help them guess the adverb.
For example
You kiss someone like this
You stroke a cat like this
The others can ask questions to try and guess the adverb
Can you speak like this?
Can you walk like this?
The object of the game is to guess the adverb

43. It’s how you hold an egg
It’s how you said good bye
to your family when you came here

45. a. punctuation
b. the adverbs, i.e. masterfully, calmly