Takeaway

Takeaway I Love This!

I Love This! English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

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CONTENT
• Let’s Start! • Let’s Explore! • Let’s Practice! • Extension Activity • Target Words • Learning Points

Let’s Start!

I like comic books! I like magazines!

Learning Outcome Can Do Statements

Accurately use information about free-
time activities or personal likes/dislikes
in communicative situations.
Ask your partner:
• I can express possession using my, mine, your,
yours.
• I can talk about what I am not doing or what
people are not doing.
• I can say what I like or dislike.

• What do you like to read? Why do you

like this type?
• Do you like reading to others? Why or
why not?

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Takeaway I Love This!
I Love This! English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

Let’s Explore!

Peter and Sally talk about their hobbies. What does Peter like doing?

Instructions: Read the text aloud.

Sally: Oh, look! They have books here too!

Peter: Yes, it's a cafe and a bookstore. Cool, right?
Sally: Yeah! Is this yours? This comic book?
Peter: Yes. Do you like comic books?
Sally: Mmm, not really ... I like to read magazines. What do you like to read?
Peter: Well, comic books and the paper.
Sally: I like to shop! Do you?
Peter: Mmm ... I'm not looking for anything right now. What's your favorite shop?
Sally: Any shop at the mall! I collect shoes.
Peter: My sister collects shoes too. I collect comic books. I have a lot at home! Oh,
Is this your bag?
Sally: No, it's not mine. It's hers.
Peter: Excuse me, is this your bag?
Woman: Oh yes, it is. Thank you very much.

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Takeaway I Love This! English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter > At the Coffee Shop

Let’s Practice!

Do you like coffee? Not really ...

Instructions: Proofread each sentence. Each sentence has one mistake.

1. Due you like comic books?

2. Not reeley...I like to read magazines.

3. I like too shop. Do you?

4. No. I like to reed books.

Let’s Practice!

Whose is this?

Instructions: Match the answer on the right with the pronoun on the left.

1. I their
2. he hers
3. she his
4. they ours
5. we mine

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Takeaway I Love This!
I Love This! English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

Extension Activity

What is your hobby? Interview a friend to find out!

Instructions: Complete the following steps. Fill in the Self-Assessment.

a) Ask a friend about what they like.

Self-Assessment Yes No
b) Ask them about what they dislike.
c) Ask them about what they dislike
d) Share your answers with your class. I talk about what I have.

I write about likes.

I write about dislikes.

Target Words

• comic book (noun): a book of pictures • shop (noun): a place to buy things
that tell a story e.g. My favorite shop is the bookstore.
e.g. I like to read comic books. • mall (noun): a large building with many stores
• magazine (noun): a thin book with and restaurants
articles and pictures e.g. I like to go to the mall to shop.
e.g. I like to read magazines. • to collect (verb): to bring together things
• paper (noun): short form of newspaper from different places
e.g. I read the paper every morning. e.g. I collect superhero comic books.
• to shop (verb): to look for and buy
things
e.g. I like to shop!

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I Love This! English > Level A1.1 Starter
English > Level A1.1 Starter

Learning Points

Possessive Pronouns

You use possessive pronouns to talk about things that belong to someone. Possessive
pronouns can take the place of nouns.

Compare possessive adjectives and pronouns in this chart:

Possessive Adjectives Possessive Pronouns

I It's my juice. It's mine.

You That's your coffee. That coffee is yours.

He It's his computer. The computer is his.

She It's her bag. The bag is hers.

We Those are our books. Those books are ours.

They It's their car. The car is theirs.

Examples:
• This coffee is my coffee.
• This coffee is mine.
• This bag is not mine, it is hers.
• That computer is yours.

The Present Continuous Tense in the Negative

You make the Present Continuous tense negative by adding not after the verb to be and
before the verb-ing.

You can also use the contracted form like isn't.

Examples:
• I am not looking for anything right now.
• He is not eating dinner.
• She isn't playing video games.

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