🔑 Grammar A2-10: Possessive pronouns
The tenth material of the Fleydo A2 grammar series, written for learners of roughly eight to twelve who already met my, your, his, her, its, our and their at A1. It teaches one decision and teaches it hard: look to the right of the gap, not at the owner. A noun follows, so the short word wins (my bag); nothing follows, so the long word wins (that bag is mine). The lesson gives the full seven-pair table, including the two odd cases — his, which does both jobs unchanged, and its, which has no long form at all — then a four-step procedure with two fully worked sentences, a side-by-side comparison with a written verdict, and a sorting task that turns the rule into a habit. Whose…? gets its own section with the natural answers English actually uses, and the apostrophe traps (its / it’s, whose / who’s, and the never-an-apostrophe rule) get their own section with a substitution test and four commit-first reveal cards. Practice runs to thirty multiple-choice items across four sets, ten sorting chips, six error corrections and four cards; every single answer explains why, not just what. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the board move that makes learners produce mine themselves, what to do with a stuck learner, the Cambridge A2 Key relevance and the follow-up topics.
Lesson Plan
- my bag = mine, shown as one pattern strip
- The formula: short word + noun, long word + nothing
- The rule in one line — never both, never neither
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Possessive adjective + noun: my bag, your turn, her gloves, their dog
- Possessive pronoun with no noun: That bag is mine. Is this yours?
- his does both jobs unchanged; its has no possessive-pronoun form
- Whose + noun + is / are + this / these? — and Whose is this? with no noun
- Answers to Whose…?: It’s Nora’s. / It’s hers. / They’re the twins’.
- No apostrophe in mine, yours, hers, ours, theirs — and its is not it’s
Prerequisites
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