Lesson video

Hi everyone, it's me Ms. Chu.

Today's lesson is a grammar lesson and what's the grammar? The grammar we're going to be looking at are determiners.

Hmm, wonder if you know what they are, determiners.

Get yourselves ready for this really fun lesson.

The agenda, we're going to start with a writing warm up, looking at pronouns, then we will look at the main part of the lesson which are determiners.

Break that down into types of determiners because there are many types.

Oh, I hope we'll remember them all and then at the end, we will do a little independent task.

So, what will you need for this wonderful lesson? You will need something to write on, something to write with and you obviously need to have your thinking head switched on, because if they weren't switched on, you just wouldn't be able to do the lesson.

So, go and get, pause the video and go and get your things.

Writing warm up.

As I had said before, we are going to be looking at pronouns.

Wonder if you remember what a pronoun is.

I think I've forgotten.

I better remind myself.

Pronouns are used to avoid repeating nouns in a sentence or a piece of writing.

Okay, so I don't want to repeat the noun.

A noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing.

So, I don't want to repeat the person, place or thing.

I don't want to keep saying the house the house the house or the man the man the man or monsieur monsieur monsieur.

So, a pronoun is appropriate to replace the noun.

For example, we will be talking and we are talking about Spiderman a lot in this unit.

So, we want to refer to him as he.

If we are talking about the police, we want to refer to the police as, you say it, they, well done.

The police chased the suspects down Oxford Street.

They had nearly cornered them at Trafalgar Square, but were not successful.

So, we wouldn't say, the police chased the suspects down Oxford Street.

The police had nearly, we wouldn't because we already know in that sentence it's the police, so we just replace it with they.

The types of pronouns that we could use, there's one type called possessive pronouns and that's to show ownership, so if you own something you're possessing something, that's a possessive pronoun.

For example, Spiderman, if something that is belonging to him, we would say his.

So, his is the possessive pronoun and he is not the possessive pronoun because he doesn't suggest that anything is being owned to him.

How many different pronouns can you think of? I want you to pause the video and have a go at listing as many pronouns as you can.

Okay, hopefully you've had a go.

These are a few that I came up with.

I came up with ours, she, they, his, we, them, I, hers, mine and it.

Can you please sort into the two circles, ovals? How ever you want to draw it.

I would draw ovals because circles are quite hard to draw, you have to get them exactly round in a circle whereas an oval you can just make it a.

And you can just do it freehand.

So, sort them into the two categories.

Off you go.

Don't forget to label personal pronouns and possessive pronouns.

Pause the video and have a go.

Excellent.

Okay, so let's have a look to see if we've got the same things.

For personal pronouns I have we, I, they, she, them, and it.

And for my possessive pronouns, things that belong to me, I've got ours, his, hers and mine.

So, mine is belonging to me, his is belonging to him, hers is belonging to her, and ours is a collective, more than one.

Determiners.

what are determiners? Determiners link to a specific noun.

Okay, what does that mean? A determiner is a word which is used before a noun to show which particular example of the noun you are talking about.

For example, my train arrives at seven o'clock.

These bystanders live near the tube and the newspaper reports are ready for collection.

Determiners can be used to describe an object to a greater effect.

For example if we say the web doesn't give as much information as the phrase his web.

The web could be anybody's web but his web belongs to Spiderman, is his.

So it gives us more information, it gives us, it lets us know more specifically who it belongs to.

That leads us nicely to our next to the next section of our lesson which demonstrates the different types of determiners that are out there.

There are definite articles.

For example, the.

We would use the, the is a definite article.

An indefinite article is a, a web.

So the web is specific to something, is defined as definite.

A web, a web could be any web, just use a web or it's a web, whereas the web is specific.

Okay, so those are the two.

Demonstratives demonstrate if something is this report or that report, this or that.

So this or that, are just demonstrative determiners.

Then it goes on, we've got possessives.

Her statement or my statement or his statement.

Then we've got the quantifiers.

We say some bystanders, many bystanders.

and then even more specific than that, we have the numbers which gives a quantified number.

So some is a quantifier and it's saying, whether it's a little or a lot, but then the numbers give the exact number six, five, four whatever number you like.

Let's look at a possessive determiner more in detail.

So a possessive determiner provides more clarification on who the car belongs to.

For example, let's look at the two sentences above.

Alison watched with sadness as they took the car away.

Alison watched with sadness as they took her car away.

Do you see how changing it from the to her really, really changes the meaning and gives us, provides a deeper meaning.

So if she watched with sadness as they took the car away we don't really know, it's quite vague why she is sad.

Maybe she's just sad for the people who own the car.

Whereas in the second sentence if Alison watched with sadness as they took her car away, we know that she's sad because it's her car and she is sad that they've taken her car away.

So do you see how they, that does affect using determiners does affect the meaning of the whole sentence, the context of the sentence.

Okay, what about demonstrative determiners? Demonstrative determiners can be used for accuracy and to clarify specific things.

For example, take a marker is a clear instruction.

You're saying just take a marker.

But if you say to someone take this marker, it's more specific and provides more information.

Take a marker, could be any marker.

Go and take a marker.

But take this marker.

I want you to take this one, provides more information.

Numbers, as I mentioned before can also provide a clearer picture.

For example, if I just said, the Diner Bandits' raced down the street with some bags of cash, like that.

Quite tempting, isn't it? Some bags of cash yeah, we can imagine it'd be some bags of cash quite quite a few, maybe not a few to some.

But then if we said the Diner Bandits raced down the street with 10 bags of cash we can picture that more, can't we? It gives you a clearer picture.

Okay, it's your turn to do some work now.

I would like you to complete each sentence with the correct determiner.

At the park they saw a ambulance, the ambulance, or an ambulance.

You're using a, the, and an to fill in the sentences, the blank spaces in the sentences.

There was also mmm medic on site.

He thought it was mmm worst day ever.

Pause the video and have a go.

Right, so at the park they saw an ambulance because we use an for words that start with aeiou a-e-i-o-u.

And then there was also a medic on site, so we use a for the consonants.

And he thought it was the worst day ever.

Can't be he thought it was a worst day ever.

It was the worst day ever.

Your second task.

Can you identify the determiners in this passage or this paragraph? Pause the video to read the paragraph yourself and then press play so I can read it to you.

Because his father worked as a key investigator for the Metropolitan Police for 10 years, he was able to retrieve some reports containing information.

This was significant in being able to identify the anonymous figure.

Pause the video now and identify all the determiners in this paragraph.

Okay, these are the determiners I found.

Because his father worked as a key investigator for the Metropolitan Police for 10 years, he was able to retrieve some reports containing information.

This was significant in being able to identify the anonymous figure.

So we've got a is our indefinite article.

The, the Metropolitan Police, the anonymous figure is our definite article.

Ten is our number determiner and some is our quantifier.

Some reports.

Amazing.

Well done.

So in this lesson you have learned pronouns, personal and possessive pronouns.

You know what determiners are.

You know all the types of determiners and you've had a go at picking out determiners within a paragraph and also filling in the blanks.

Congratulations.

You have come to the end of the lesson.

If you'd like to, please share your learning, your grammar learning with a parent or carer and I really look forward to teaching you your next lesson within this unit.

Bye.