DIALOGUE

Practice by reading the dialogue with your tutor. After you are done, switch roles and do it again! 📘

• K: Is this your pen? 📘
• D: No, it is not. That pen is mine. 📘
• K: Are those paperclips mine? 📘
• D: No, these are your paperclips. 📘

 

NEW SKILL

Using demonstrative pronouns and adjectives: this, that, these, and those. 📘

• This – singular and close
• That – singular and a bit further away
• These – plural and close
• Those – plural and a bit further away

 

Examples:

• This is my pencil.
• These are his pens.
• That is their stapler.
• This is your desk.

 

 

 

VOCABULARY

Go over the vocabulary below with your tutor. 📘

 

EXERCISE

Pick the correct demonstrative adjective. 📘

• This pencil or that pencil? (this, that, these, those)
• She likes _________ pens, not these pens. (this, that, these, those)
• These erasers or ________ erasers. (this, that, these, those)
• Do you want _______ stapler or that stapler? (this, that, these, those)
• Use these file folders, not ______ file folders. (this, that, these, those)

 

 

Fill in the blank with the correct demonstrative pronoun. 📘

• That is my legal pad. (there, not close)
• _______ are your push pins. (here, close)
• ________ is our masking tape. (here, close)
• ________ are their envelopes. (there, not close)
• ________ is my blue highlighter. (there, not close)

 

 

 Fill in the blank with the correct demonstrative pronoun or adjective. 📘

• Do you need that? (there, not close)
• Can I have _________ calculators? (here, close)
• ________ cutter is mine. (here, close)
• He wants ________ hole puncher. (there, not close)
• ________ are our tape measures. (there, not close)

 

 

Fill in the blank with the correct demonstrative pronoun or adjective. 📘

• These paperclips are better than those.
• He does not like __________ pencil sharpener. He likes that one.
• How much is ________ whiteout pen there?
• I need __________ erasers, not those.
• ________ pen in the drawer is better than _______ one here.

 

 

Discussion Question

• What supplies do you have in your office?
• What supplies do you use for work?
• Do you use a pen or a pencil? Why?
• What supplies would you need to send a letter to a friend?