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This is fantastic!

Demonstrative pronouns
Class objectives

Learning objective: To identify demonstratives in order


to express the quantity of familiar and unfamiliar objects.

Communicative: To use demonstratives to express


quantity.

Strategies: Scanning information in a text.


Demonstratives: words that show
where an object, event, or person is in
relation to the speaker.
THIS (close) THAT (far)

THESE (close) THOSE (far)


What is this?

THIS is a book.
What is that?

THAT is a TV.
What are these?

THESE are foxes.


What are those?

THOSE are airplanes.


Demonstrative pronouns

A demonstrative pronoun represents a thing or things:

CLOSE FAR

SINGULAR  this that


PLURAL    these those

The demonstrative pronoun takes the place of the noun


phrase.
Example:

This is a car.

SINGULAR
OBJECT OR PERSON
Example:

Those are women.


PLURAL
OBJECT OR PEOPLE
A: What _____________?
B: __________________.
A: What _____________?
B: __________________.
A: What _____________?
B: ___________________.
A: Who _____________?
B: ___________________.
A: What _____________?
B: ___________________.
Time to practice!
Create 5 more additional sentences.
share them with your classmates.

Example:
This is an Iphone X but that is a Samsung…
Part 1: Now match the conversation with the according image:
Demonstratives adjectives: We use these
words to point out specific people or
things.
These books are excellent!

This book is excellent!


That TV is big. Those TV’s are big.
This fox is orange.

These foxes are orange.


That airplane is in the sky.
Those airplanes are in the sky.
Part 2: Now fill in the blanks on your worksheet:

1. This seat is yours and _______ seat is mine.


2. These are Bob's glasses, not mine. _____glasses are mine.
3 This is a desk and_______ is a table.
4. These rulers are shorter than______
5. Which bag shall we buy: this one big or _______one small?
6. That towel is dirty. Take _____ blue towel.
7 These tickets are for you and ____ are for us.
8. _____are our pencils and those are not ours.
9. Give me ____ brown marker and I'll give you this.
10. ____ cup of coffee is very delicious, here try it!
Part 2: Now fill in the blanks on your worksheet:

1. This seat is yours and _____that___seat is mine.


Those
2. These are Bob's glasses, not mine. ______glasses are mine.
3 This is a desk and_______
that is a table.
4. These rulers are shorter than______
those
5. Which bag can we buy: this big one or _______
that small one?
6. That towel is dirty. Take _____
this blue towel.
7. These tickets are for you and ________
those are for us.
8. These
______are our pencils and those are not ours.
9. Give me _____
that brown marker and I'll give you this.
This cup of coffee is very delicious, here try it!
10. _____
Part 3: Classify the sentences into demonstrative
as a pronoun and as an adjective:
As a pronoun As an adjective
   

   

   

   

   
As a pronoun As an adjective
3. That is a table 1. That seat is mine
8. These are our pencils and those are not ours. 2. Those glasses are mine

4. These rulers are shorter than those

5. Which bag can we buy: this one big or that


one small?

6. That towel is dirty. Take this blue towel

7. These tickets are for you and those are for us.

9. Give me that brown marker and I'll give you


this.
10. This cup of coffee is very delicious
Part 4 : Correct the mistakes in the paragraph:
is that
this these
are these
those are
picture
those
Part 5: Create a dialogue using the demonstratives and
this image:
Feedback:

 Give the examples of demonstrative pronouns with objects in


the classroom.
Eg: This is a classroom
 Give the examples of demonstrative adjectives with objects in
the classroom.
E.g: English class? That is an amazing class!!

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