Whose is this? & Whose are these?
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Two personalised questions with demonstratives drawing card games to practise possessives
Lesson Plan Content:
Whose is this?/ Whose are these? Possessives Drawing Games
Possessive adjectives and possessive speaking practice
Instructions
Game 1: Guess whose
Make a question from the cards on the first worksheet and draw a real thing that matches
which belongs to someone you know. For example, if you make the question “Whose
glasses are these?” you could draw your father’s (real) glasses, your partner’s (real)
glasses, your own (real) glasses, etc. If you don’t have different colours to draw with, you
can write the name of the colour with an arrow or in the right place. If the person that you
choose doesn’t have that thing, you can just draw nothing.
Your partner should guess using a full sentence like “They are your mother’s”. Respond
with something like “That’s right”, “No, that’s not right”, “My mother doesn’t have glasses”,
“My mother’s glasses are blue”, etc. Continue until your partner guesses correctly, maybe
giving hints like “This person is in this room” if they can’t.
Game 2: Guess who
Make a sentence from the words on the cards and your own idea, e.g. “It’s a bus driver’s”
+ “hat”. Don’t show the cards to your partner and don’t say the sentence. Draw that thing
in detail, including colours etc, until your partner guesses the whole sentence. Any object
is okay as long as you can draw it and you know the name in English.
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Game 1: Guess whose – Cards to make questions from and draw
Whose
bag
bedroom
bicycle
present
book
breakfast
coat
cupboard/
closet
dinner
dress
ears
eyes
favourite
food
favourite
shop
favourite
subject
favourite
movie
feet
fingers
glasses
gloves
gun
hair
brush/
hairbrush
hat/ cap
hobby
holiday/
vacation
jewellery
lunch
mouth
nose
tail
shorts
pet
shoes
house/ home
socks
Sunday
morning
swimming
costume
teddy/ teddy
bear
toothbrush
toy(s)
trousers/
jeans
umbrella
uniform
…is
this?
…are
these?
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Game 2: Guess who – Cards to make statements from and draw
It’s…
They are…
name’s…
your aunt’s…
a baseball
player’s…
your brother’s… a bus driver’s…
a cat’s…
your cousin’s…
your dad’s/ your
father’s…
your
daughter’s…
your doctor’s…
a fish’s…
your friend’s…
your
husband’s…
your mum’s/
your mother’s…
your pet’s…
a police
officer’s…
your sister’s…
your son’s…
your
teacher’s…
your uncle’s…
your wife’s…
your…
my…
his/ her…
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