LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 43
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4. Let’s Practice!
Have the students do the exercise in their notebooks. Do the first one with them and then
give them a few minutes to do it alone. When they are finished, check their answers with
them.
Answers:
1. You are in the room.
2. He is in the room.
3. She is in the room.
4. It is in the room.
5. We are in the room.
6. They are in the room.
Explain that if we want to say what something isn’t we add the negative word not, so we
get:
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I am not a boy. I am a man.
I am not a girl. I am a woman.
Read the chart with the class, reading each sentence and having the class repeat.
The Verb ‘to be’ – Negative
Explain that we can say he is not or I am not but we can also shorten this. Explain that in
English, we like to shorten everything possible. Many times we like to take two words and
make them into one.
Demonstrate the concept by writing he is on the board. Cross out the i and replace it with
an apostrophe. Push the two words together to make one word. Read the new word to your
students to show how the pronunciation changes from he is to he’s.
Explain that an apostrophe is a type of punctuation mark. One of its jobs is to help us form
contractions. It’s important to point out that the apostrophe replaces the letter we omit,
otherwise it’s a mistake as in ar’nt. Understanding that the apostrophe must always take the
place of the omitted letters will help prevent such errors.
Show the short forms on the board:
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I’m not
he’s not / he isn’t
she’s not / she isn’t
it’s not / it isn’t
you’re not / you aren’t
we’re not / we aren’t
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