Lesson Plan of Possessive Pronouns English Grade IV

Lesson Plan of Possessive Pronouns

English Grade IV

Students’ Learning Outcomes

·         Demonstrate correct use of my- mine, your-yours, etc.

                                                    Information for Teachers

·         Possessive pronouns are used to show ownership or ‘possession’.

·         Possessive pronouns are used to avoid repeating the same information.

·         There are seven possessive pronouns in English: his, hers, mine, yours, its, ours, and theirs.

(Examples: This book is my book, not your book. This book is mine, not yours. (Mine and yours are possessive pronouns)

In the sentence, mine is a possessive pronoun that replaces my book.

In the sentence, yours is possessive pronoun that replaces your book.

Subject pronouns	Possessive pronouns
1.       I 2.       You 3.       He 4.       She 5.       IT 6.       WE 7.       Their	1.       Mine 2.       Yours 3.       His 4.       Hers 5.       Its 6.       Ours 7.       Theirs

·         While teaching the lesson, also consult the textbook at all the steps where required.

 

  Material / Resources

Chalk/marker, board

Worm up activity

·         Start the lesson by reviewing the pronouns showing possession learnt in the previous lessons.

·         Ask the students questions: Which pronouns are used to show possession? Are they used with nouns or in place of nouns?

·         Encourage the students if they give correct answers. Give feed back to them if they give incorrect answers.

·         Repeat that possessive pronouns my, your, our, their, her, come before a noun. Write a few examples on the board for the students’ understanding (This is my book. Your eyes are so beautiful. That is our school, etc.

·         Tell the students that the possessive pronouns mine, yours, hers, ours, theirs are used without nouns. Write a few examples on the board. (This book is yours. That school is ours. These pictures are hers, etc.

·         Write on the board: This book is your/yours. The doll is my/mine.

·         Ask the students to choose the correct possessive pronoun. Write a few more sentences and ask the students to select the correct pronouns.

·         Write another example on the board: This book is my book, not your book. Ask students to replace ‘my book’ and ‘your book’ with possessive pronouns. (Mine and yours are possessive pronouns),

Development

Activity 1

·         Divide the class into pairs.

·         Write the sentences on the board.

·         Tell the students to underline the correct possessive pronouns.

·         Repeat the instructions if necessary.

·         Do the first sentence on the board for the students’ understanding.

·         Ask the students to do the work in their notebook.

·         Move about to monitor students’ work and provide help.

Activity 2

·         Divide the whole class into two teams.

·         Tell the teams that you will call the name of a member of a team. You will give him/her a possessive pronoun. The student will have to say a sentence using that pronoun.

·         Tell the team that the sentence can be question.

·         The team whose members give more correct sentences wins.

·         You may give the members of the winning team colored stars on their class work, to encourage them.

·         Play the game as long as time allows or till all the students have taken their turn.

Activity 3

·         Write the sentences on the board and Underline the correct possessive pronoun.

1.       This is a nice shirt. Is it you/yours?

2.       Uzma is going to a wedding with her/hers family.

3.       Mr. Haroon has two children but I don’t know their /theirs name.

4.       Can I borrow your pen? My/Mine are black.

5.       Our/ ours computer is not working.

6.       These are not my shoes. My/mine are black.

7.       Her/hers painting are very colorful.

8.       The dog lost it/its bone in the river.

9.       You/yours phone is ringing.

10.   The new house on the street is their /theirs.

11.   The third house on the street is our/ours.

12.   My/mine books are on the desk.

13.   The boy is eating his/her dinner.

14.   Hira cleaned his/her room.

15.   The grandmother is very old he/she walks with a stick.

16.   Faiza really likes her/his school.

17.   Dr. Ahmad is looking for her /his thermometer.

18.   I have a pet dog. It/he is very cute.

19.   Mother is baking a cake for his/her children.

20.   That is my brother he/she is a pilot.

21.   Bear is a lazy animal. She/it sleeps the whole winter.

22.   Umar is sharing its/his lunch with Haroon.

Sum up / Conclusion

·         Quickly review the lesson. Ask the students: “Do the possessive pronouns mine, hers, yours, ours, come before a noun or do my, her and Our to come before a noun?”

·         Ask the students: “Why are possessive pronouns used?”

·         Write a few subject pronouns on the board and ask the students which possessive pronoun will be used for it. For example: me-mine, you-yours, her-hers, etc.

Assessment

·         Check how well students recall the possessive pronouns learnt earlier in the worm up activity by asking them about possessive pronouns.

·         Monitor the assigned task in the classroom to assess how well the students have understood the concept of possessive pronouns.

·         Check the written work given in the classroom to the assess students’ ability to use the possessive pronouns correctly.

·         Assess the students’ ability to demonstrate correct use of my-mine, her-hers, our-ours, etc. through the correct sentences given the activity 2.

·         Assess the students’ ability to demonstrate correct use of possessive pronouns by giving them a short test at the end of this week.

Follow up

·         Make four sentences with my, mine, your, yours.

·         Give the students enough practices in the subsequent classes.