1. Fame!:   Getting started

1. Memory: Nationalities.

Play the memory game. Which flag is it?

2. Picture dictionary: Jobs.

Match the jobs to the pictures.

3. Vocabulary: Adjectives describing people.

Choose the correct adjective.

4. Read: The Fame game.

Who are the famous people? Click on an image, read the sentences and select the correct answer.

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The past of is = was. The past of are = were.

Present
He is president.
They are Chinese.

Past
He was president.
They were Chinese.

5. Language focus: To be.

The verb to be

He and she:
He/She is an actor.
His sister is clever.
She is not American.
Contraction:

He's an actor.
His sister's clever.
She isn't American.
They:
They are Chinese.
Her parents are Spanish.
They are not actors.

They're Chinese.

(No contraction.)
They aren't actors.

Make true sentences. Complete the sentences with is, isn't, are or aren't.

6. Language focus: He / his, she / her, they / their.

 

Subject pronoun: he
Possessive adjective: his

He's an actor.
His mother's Spanish.
His children speak English and Spanish.


Subject pronoun: she
Possessive adjective: her

She's a tennis player.
Her husband's a tennis player, too.
Her parents live in California.


Subject pronoun: they
Possessive adjective: their

They're Chinese.
Their hometown is Shanghai.
Their children study in the United States.


Look at the names. Who is the sentence about? Make the sentences true using he, she, they, his, her or their.

John Boyega or Alicia Vikander?

Golshifteh Farahani or Jackie Chan?

John Boyega or J.K. Rowling?

Bart Simpson or Shakira?