Reference words: Personal pronouns and adjectives.

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When reading a text or writing it, we must be aware of how important it is to understand and establish quality relationships between its words, that is, we have to make a good work with reference words. In this post, I will only deal with subject and object personal pronouns, the possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns.
There are some aspects that we should always remember:

• Pronouns substitute nouns, adjectives do not!
• Depending on "the job"of the noun, it should be replaced by a subject (before the verb) or object pronoun (after verbs or prepositions).
• Possessive adjectives say who owns the noun, whose it is.
• Possessive pronouns say who owns what has already been mentioned and are not accompanied by a noun.

If you want to see a very clear chart of these reference words go to Teaching English by Fran.
When you are ready to practice on this, visit the following:

• Subject pronouns at English Grammar 4U
• Object pronouns at My English Pages
• Possessive adjectives at Adele's ESL Corner.
• Possessive pronouns at Oxford University Press.
• Mixture of all at English Exercises. Org

Are you ready to work? Any problems? 

Leave a comment if you need for help or anyhting you want ;-)

Comparative and Superlatives: Monsters competition

Monsters, Inc.

For my classes of 2nd of ESO, I ask my students to draw a monster, each of them, at home and to write a small description of how they are; not only physically, but also how they behave and so on, using adjectives of all sorts, such as soft, aggressive, tall, thin, shy, brave...


We start by making sure that they know when we need a comparative (we compare two items or two sets) or a superlative (we compare an item or set with a group of items or sets). Then, we divide adjectives into short (one syllable -strong-  or two syllable ending in -y -pretty) and long adjectives (two syllables -narrow- or more - interesting) and explain them that short adjectives take a suffix to make comparatives and superlatives; whereas long adjectives use a periphrasis. To say the set that we are comparing with, we use the preposition in (in the class, in the school...).

	short	long
comparative	adjective +er than (taller than)	more adjective than (more difficult than)
superlative	the adjective +est (the tallest)	the most adjective (the most difficult)

 Finally, we point out the irregular form of the adjectives good, bad, far and old (for families use mainly):

	comparative form	superlative form
good	better than	the best
bad	worse than	the worst
far	farther than/ further than	the farthest/ the furthest
old	elder than	the eldest

 To end up, we make lots of exercises comparing the pictures the students have made. We may also use activities from the net such as the ones in English-zone.com1 and English-zone.com2, or we may play with the IWB this fantastic game by marks-english-school.com or this one by Kids ESL Games.


We can start comparing the monsters in the image above. Do you remember their names?
Leave your comparisons in the form of comments!!!