Grammar Review: My School Friends
Grammar Review: My School Friends
2 Look at the picture and complete the information about Alex and his friends.
My school friends
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is a picture of my school friends. That’s Anna. She 2
dark hair. She’s fifteen years old. That’s Barney. He 3 very tall. That’s me.
I 4
sixteen. I 5
a new skateboard. It’s really good. That’s
Carla. She’s sixteen. 6
are her rollerblades. She can rollerblade, but she
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skateboard. Those are Barney’s dogs, Bart and Lisa. They 8
black and white. They 9 a ball.
3 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Cover the text. Ask and answer the questions.
1 How old is Anna? 5 What can Carla do?
2 Who is very tall? 6 Who are Bart and Lisa?
3 How old is Alex? 7 What colour are they?
4 What has Alex got? 8 What have they got?
Exercise 1
• Give each student a handout and ask them to work
individually or in pairs to do the exercise.
• Students choose the correct words so that the
sentences are true for them.
• Check answers with the class.
KEY
1 is 5 have / haven’t, a
2 has / hasn’t 6 This, is
3 aren’t 7 these, are
4 have / haven’t, a 8 The, is / isn’t
Exercise 2
• Tell the students to look at the picture. With a weaker
class, elicit some of the vocabulary.
• Ask them to read the text quickly and find out who the
people are in the picture are. Then give students a few
minutes to complete the text with the correct words.
Tell them that they will need to use the affirmative
and negative forms of verbs be, have got and can, and
demonstrative pronouns. They should use short forms
where possible.
• Ask students to read out the text when they have
finished and tell the rest of the class to listen and raise
their hands if they have a different answer. Ask the
whole class to confirm the correct answer.
KEY
1 This 6 Those
2 ’s got 7 can’t
3 ’s 8 ’re
4 ’m 9 ’ve got
5 ’ve got
Exercise 3
• Students work in pairs. They should cover the text and
try to answer the questions from memory. Alternatively,
tell the students to turn over their handouts and read
out the questions to the class. Students make notes of
their answers. They then discuss their answers in pairs.
• Check answers with the class.
KEY
1 fifteen 5 rollerblade
2 Barney 6 Barney’s dogs
3 sixteen 7 black and white
4 a new skateboard 8 a ball