PRONOUNS-CHANT: Singing the pronouns altogether!! Learning how to take turns…– beginner / intermediate / advanced / children / teens / adults

17/8/2015

I have been setting expressions to music and rhythmic chants for decades with excellent results.

Distinguishing when to use the different sets of PRONOUNS and POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES are always a problem in my classes - students just don’t seem able to distinguish them - so I have invented this chant in the hope of fixing these expressions forever!!

Chants are a very repetitive way of embedding expressions in the brain so that they become second-nature and just 'sound right' without having to resort to learning grammar rules and translating from one's own language with the inevitable often horrific results.

Taking turns when playing games – many students don’t know when it’s their turn and the others like to ‘wake them up’ but telling them so: I insist they use English, thereby practicing their pronouns at the same time! Here is another chant for them to remember the expression.

You can download the worksheets to the chants below.

Hope it's useful!
Susan

pronoun_table.docx
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pronouns-chant_-_its_my_bag.__its_mine!.docx
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pronouns-chant_-_its_my_bag.__its_mine!.m4a
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pronouns-chant_-_its_my_turn!_its_my_turn_to_play_l!.docx
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pronouns-chant_-_its_my_turn.__its_my_turn_to_play!_.m4a
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My name is Susan Brodar, born in London into a multilingual family and brought up bilingual English / Italian.

I went to school in London until 15 when we moved to Germany where I finished my British education at Munich International School. I started teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 and studied Mass Communications and Journalism at Munich University.

I continued teaching parallel to interpreting at trade fairs and business meetings as well doing translations. After working at the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade for a year I married my Italian globetrotting companion in 1983 and we set up our home near Venice, Italy where we continue to live with our two teenaged children.

Having taken my British High School-leaving ‘A’ Level exams in English, Italian, French & German I am completely fluent in all four languages and am taking a DELE certification in Spanish to complement them.

ENGLISH (native)
ITALIAN (native)
GERMAN (C2)
FRENCH (C2)
SPANISH (B2)