Teaching Basic English Personal Pronouns - As with prepositions, English personal pronouns are easy for English teachers to teach and for students to learn. To master their usage properly, higher level analysis is not needed. What students need to do is just memorizing. If they could memorize the materials well, then they will be able to use them correctly. The only possible difficulty that students may face while learning English personal pronouns will come from the slight difference between personal pronouns in Bahasa Indonesia and those in English. However, if you teach this material using appropriate techniques, I believe such difficulty will not be a big deal.
Well, if you are looking for technique to teach English personal pronouns, the following may be helpful to you:
Material: personal pronouns (he, she, they, we)
Personal pronouns I and You seem not to pose any confusion to students, therefore both are not the focus of this technique.
Teaching Steps
Before you come to the main activities of instruction, first you should give clear explanation about the pronouns which will be used in the activities namely he, she, they, and we. The explanation should cover the reference of all those pronouns (he refers to one man, she to one woman, they to more than to people, and we to I plus other persons). In the end of explanation the teacher should ask the students whether they understand his explanation or not. If they still don't understand, the teacher should explain again.
After the explanation is given, and students have sufficient understanding about personal pronouns to be discussed, it's time to proceed to the main activities. Here, the teacher asks some students to come forward. Those students should consist of at least one girl, one boy, and two girls or boys. The teacher then gives different labels to each of them. For the girl, he gives her "She". For the boy, "He". For two girls or boys "They".
After that, the teacher gives the instruction. The instruction could go as follow:
To students who wear label, he says "I will read a sentence containing a name or names. Anytime I mention a girl name in the sentence, you who have label "she" should raise your hand so that all your classmates can see you. If a boy name that I mention, you who have label "he" should to the same. And if I mention more than one name, then you who have label "they" should raise your hand."
To other students, he says "I will read a sentence containing a name or names. Anytime I mention a name or names, your friend with label will raise their hand. And you have to repeat my sentence but you should replace the name in the sentence with the label they have."
After students show understanding about the instruction, the teacher can proceed to the show.
Well, that is one of techniques I usually use to teach my students English personal pronouns. So far, the result is satisfying.
Well, if you are looking for technique to teach English personal pronouns, the following may be helpful to you:
Material: personal pronouns (he, she, they, we)
Personal pronouns I and You seem not to pose any confusion to students, therefore both are not the focus of this technique.
Teaching Steps
Before you come to the main activities of instruction, first you should give clear explanation about the pronouns which will be used in the activities namely he, she, they, and we. The explanation should cover the reference of all those pronouns (he refers to one man, she to one woman, they to more than to people, and we to I plus other persons). In the end of explanation the teacher should ask the students whether they understand his explanation or not. If they still don't understand, the teacher should explain again.
After the explanation is given, and students have sufficient understanding about personal pronouns to be discussed, it's time to proceed to the main activities. Here, the teacher asks some students to come forward. Those students should consist of at least one girl, one boy, and two girls or boys. The teacher then gives different labels to each of them. For the girl, he gives her "She". For the boy, "He". For two girls or boys "They".
After that, the teacher gives the instruction. The instruction could go as follow:
To students who wear label, he says "I will read a sentence containing a name or names. Anytime I mention a girl name in the sentence, you who have label "she" should raise your hand so that all your classmates can see you. If a boy name that I mention, you who have label "he" should to the same. And if I mention more than one name, then you who have label "they" should raise your hand."
To other students, he says "I will read a sentence containing a name or names. Anytime I mention a name or names, your friend with label will raise their hand. And you have to repeat my sentence but you should replace the name in the sentence with the label they have."
After students show understanding about the instruction, the teacher can proceed to the show.
Well, that is one of techniques I usually use to teach my students English personal pronouns. So far, the result is satisfying.
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