Home Sweet Home

Activity 1:

Oral comprehension: Find out about Anna's family.

1. Watch the video and take notes.

2. What is the name of the Spanish girl?

3. Who is Anna's father ?

4. What is the name of Anna's mother ?

5. What are the names of Anna's siblings?

6. What is the name of Anna's dog ?

7. Draw her family tree.

Exercise:

Observe the family tree and answer the following questions :

1. What are the names of John's parents ?

2. Who are the children of Maud and Harold ?

3. What are the names of Kate's aunts ?

4. Wo are July's grandmothers ?

5. Who is John's uncle ?

Vocabulary

Marie and her fiancé Tom are talking about her family.

1. Watch the video and take notes.

2. Who is Eddy ?

3. How many kids does her aunt Judy have ?

4. How many siblings has Marie got ?

5. When is Marie's family coming ?

6. How many family members are coming over ?

La forme possessive

En anglais, on utilise 's pour décrire la possession ou l'appartenance.

Construction :

possesseur 's possédé

Exemples :

Tony's car is red

Lorsqu'il y a deux possesseur pour le même possédé :

Iris and Nolan's English teacher is very strict.

Dans cette phrase, Iris et Nolan ont le même professeur d'anglais.

Lorsque les deux possesseurs possèdent deux possédés différents :

Louis's and Anaïs's parents are coming tonight.

Dans cette phrase, on indique bien que Louis et Anaïs ont des parents différents.

Attention, lorsque le possesseur est au pluriel avec un « s », on ne met que '

The pupils' school is very big.

Evidemment, lorsque le pluriel est irrégulier, on met 's.

child – children

foot – feet

man – men

woman – women

tooth – teeth

mouse – mice (souris)

The children's playground is very noisy (bruyant-e).

Intermediary task

Draw your family tree up to 4 generations (your great-grandparents). Ask your family for names and dates of birth.

Instructions :

1. Draw a tree or use the example ; 

2. Write everyone's names & last names, dates of birth ;
3. Write five sentences using 's and the following words :
- Father/mother
- brother/sister
- cousin
- grandmother/grandfather
- brother in law/sister in law
- stepfather/stepmother
- great-grandmother/great-grandfather
- son
- daughter
- uncle/aunt
- husband/wife

Ex : Sophie's father is Edmond, her son is Philippe. My mother is Anne.

My house

Introduction: 

What are the different rooms in a house?

Task 1: Oral comprehension

Step 1: Watch the video and take notes.

Step 2: Write a short text in English about the video.

Vocabulary:

Ajectifs possessifs:

Indiquer si le 's de chaque phrase correspond au cas possessif ou à la forme abrégé de is.

1.     Shean's very happy.

2.     James's bag is red.

3.     Lily's in the classroom.

4.     Tess's very intelligent.

5.     Paul's house is in Bergerac.

 

Remplacer le nom au cas possessif par un adjectif possessif.

1.     Sylvia's dog is brown

2.     Sarah's house is big.

3.     Tess and Alissa's school is very big.

4.     Leo's garden is not huge.

5.     Lily's hair is blond.

Remplacer l'adjectif possessif par le nom entre parenthèses à la forme possessive.

1.     Their car is a Corvette. (Emily and Dan)

2.     His house is red. (Tony)

3.     Her bag is brown. (Sinead)

4.     Its symbol is the shamrock. (Ireland)

5.     Our teacher is very tall. (Alex and?)

Oral comprehension:

Understand a conversation. Watch the video and take notes.

Recap the video from 1"12:

In this video, Billy's mother calls from work. Billy is cooking in the kitchen, he answers the phone. His mother wants to know how he is. She asks him where everyone is. Billy answers his father is in the basement, Suzy is in the living room, his grandparents are in the yard and he is in the kitchen.

She asks if everyone is fine, Billy answers "yes". Then they say goodbye and hang up.

Prepositions: