Whose and possessive ’s

1.

Whose
and possessive ’s
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2.

Whose dress is it?
It’s Sandra’s dress .
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3.

Whose trainers are they?
They’re Ricardo’strainers.
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4.

Whose bags are they?
They’re the student’s
s’ bags.
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5.

Copy the table.
The Simpsons
(age)
favourite food
favourite drink
Homer (40)
Marge (38)
Bart (10)
Lisa (8)
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favourite clothes

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Read and complete the table.
Marge’s favourite clothes are dresses and her son’s are trainers.
Bart’s favourite food is ice-cream.
Hot chocolate is one child’s favourite drink.
The father’s favourite clothes are jeans.
Homer’s favourite food is pizza.
The eight year old’s favourite drink is milk.
The children’s mother likes bananas.
One of the family’s favourite clothes are T-shirts.
Coffee is Homer’s favourite drink. His wife’s is orange juice.
The girl’s favourite food is cheese.
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Check your answers.
The Simpsons
(age)
favourite food
favourite drink
favourite clothes
Homer (40)
pizza
coffee
jeans
Marge (38)
bananas
orange juice
dresses
Bart (10)
ice-cream
hot chocolate
trainers
Lisa (8)
cheese
milk
T-shirts
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Can you remember the rules?
Possessive adjectives: Come before a noun to show who something belongs to:
It’s my book.
Possessive pronouns:
Can take the place of the possessive adjective and noun:
The book is mine.
To ask about possession use the question word, Whose:
Whose book is that?
To talk about possession, add ’s to the end of a name/noun:
It’s Laura’s book.
If the name/noun ends in an ‘s’, add the apostrophe (’) after the ‘s’:
It’s James’ book.
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Speaking
Work in groups of four. Copy the table twice. Fill in one table with
information about your group. But don’t write any names in your table.
OUR GROUP
favourite food
favourite drink
favourite clothes
Student A: ?
Student B: ?
Student C: ?
OTHER GROUP
Student D: ?
Student A
favourite food
Student B
Student C
Student D
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favourite drink
favourite clothes

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Speaking
Work with another group. Swap your papers. Guess who likes what. Ask
questions to the other group to write names and complete the empty table.
Whose favourite food is
chocolate?
I think chocolate is Susan’s
favourite food.
No, it’s not Susan. Martin’s
favourite food is chocolate.
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Acknowledgements
The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright
photographs and material:
Slide 2: ©Plush Studios/Blend Images/360/Getty Images; (dress): ©Karkas/Shutterstock; Slide 3:
©José Luis Pelaez Inc/Blend Images/Corbis; (trainers): ©Olga Popova/iStock/360/Getty Images;
Slide 4: ©DAJ/Getty Images
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