Exercise 1
Fill the gaps with possessive pronouns.
1. Nick has got a dog. His dog is clever.
2. Have you got a room? Is your room big?
3. Ann has a lamp. Is it her lamp?
4. I have got a book. My book is interesting.
5. They have got a good room. Is their room big?
6. This is my mum. Her name's Jess.
7. These are my sisters. Their names are Mary and Dina.
8. This is my cousin. His name's Fred .
Exercise 2
Choose the correct possessive pronouns.
Если СРАЗУ ПОСЛЕ притяжательного местоимения нет существительного, то используем абсолютные формы (с -s на конце)
1. Is this your book?
2. It's their door, not ours.
3. They're new pupils and I don't know their names.
4. My flat is bigger than hers, but hers is nicer.
5. That's not my book. Mine is new.
6. They took our books and we took theirs.
7. Are these pencils hers?
8. Is this your house or theirs?
Exercise 3
Complete the sentences with correct possessive pronouns.
1. It is my house. It is mine.
2. It is his house. It is his.
3. It is their house. It is theirs.
4. It is her house. It is hers.
5. It is our house. It is ours.
6. It is your house. It is yours.
Ken Halla knows a thing or two about using technology in the classroom.
For the past 5 years, the 22-year teaching veteran has worked to transition his ninth-grade World History and AP Government classrooms into a mobile device-friendly environment where students can incorporate the latest technology into the learning process. Along the way, Halla created three of the most used education blogs in the country—“World History Teachers Blog,” “US Government Teachers Blog,” and “US History Teachers Blog”—to help fellow humanities teachers incorporate more technology and more device-based learning into their own classrooms.
“Not every classroom can get a laptop every day, so [devices like smartphones], even if you have to pair up, become something useful for teachers,” Halla says.
“The number of kids with phones has just been blown out of the water the last couple of years,” he adds. “Two years ago, if any of the kids in my room had a phone, it was a dial-phone that maybe they could text on. And now it’s all smartphones.”
According to data compiled by the research firm Nielsen, 58 percent of American children from 13- to 17-years-old owned a smartphone as of July 2012—an increase of more than 60 percent over the previous year. And with over 50 percent of mobile phone users in America now using smartphones, the numbers only seems to be growing.
With their easy internet access, a multitude of education-friendly apps, and the ability to be used at a moment’s notice (after all, what smartphone-owning teenager would go anywhere without their phone?), smartphones have all the tools necessary to boost student learning.
Here are Halla’s top tips for using mobile devices effectively in the classroom.