Subject Personal Pronouns
Objective: The primary learning objective is the mastery of Subject Personal Pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, they). Students aim to understand how these pronouns replace nouns to avoid repetition, reflecting the correct person, number, and gender. The goal is to enable learners to identify the subject of a sentence and use the appropriate pronoun to streamline their writing and speaking.
Contents and Methods: The worksheet employs a step-by-step pedagogical approach, moving from theoretical understanding to active application:
- Theoretical Foundation: Explanation of what subject personal pronouns are, their role in replacing already mentioned nouns, and how they function as the "performer" of the verb at the beginning of a phrase.
- Verification & Choice: Multiple-choice tasks where students select the correct pronoun based on grammatical indicators (e.g., 1. Sg., 3. Pl.).
- Contextual Identification: A task requiring students to mark personal pronouns within a narrative text to reinforce recognition in natural language.
- Interactive Production: A drag-and-drop activity to match pronouns with specific grammatical descriptions and a manual writing task ("filling the panels") to ensure independent conjugation/selection skills.
Competencies:
- Linguistic Competence: Proficiency in correctly identifying and utilizing the full set of subject personal pronouns in English.
- Grammatical Accuracy: Ensuring agreement between the chosen pronoun and the intended person, number, and gender of the referent.
- Syntactic Awareness: Recognizing the subject's position at the beginning of a sentence and its relationship to the verb.
- Analytical Reading: The ability to deconstruct sentences to find the underlying noun that a pronoun replaces.
Target Audience and level:
English learners at A1 level
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Target group and level
English learners at A1 level
Subjects
Subject Personal Pronouns
What are subject personal pronouns?
We use personal pronouns (I, you, he, she …) to replace nouns. We use them to refer to people and things that have already been mentioned. They reflect person, number and gender and help us to avoid repetition in our writing. Personal pronouns can be the subject or the object of a sentence, although they have different forms.
The subject of the sentence usually comes at the beginning of the phrase and performs the verb. Logically, we use subject pronouns to replace the subject of the sentence.
Example:
Ms Pearson makes learning English fun. → She makes learning English fun.