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Hello, welcome to this lesson looking at pronouns, I'm miss Eden, some of you might have seen me before.

Today you are going to need a pen or a pencil as well as a piece of paper or something to write on like a notebook, and finally make sure that you've got your brains warmed up and ready to learn some interesting stuff.

If you do not have a quiet place to go to for the lesson, please try your best to find an area that you can free yourself of distractions.

So, turn off any things that might crop up on your phone maybe, or if you're working on a laptop.

Next, get ready to learn about pronouns.

So here is just another moment for you to make sure you have everything you need.

Press pause here while you grab all of the things that you're going to need for the lesson and then press play when you are finally ready to get started.

First of all for today, we are going to very quickly recap our verbs was and were.

The rule for these verbs is that they don't look like normal verbs.

The past tense usually ends in ED if you remember from last lesson.

However, with the verb to be, we use was and were instead.

There are four options for you on the screen of correct sentences.

However, only two of them are actually correct.

We have option one, I was working hard.

Option two, you were eating a burger.

Option three, he were laughing at a film and option four they was looking up at the sky.

Pause the video here and choose the two sentences, the two options that you think are using the verb to be correctly and then press play when you think you've got the answer.

Absolutely brilliant.

Well done.

Now option one and option two are both correct.

They use the verb to be absolutely perfectly.

I was working hard, you were eating a burger.

Option three on the other hand, he were laughing at a film.

We don't use were with he, we would need was.

He was laughing at a film.

and option four, rather than was, we should have had were.

They were looking up at the sky.

Really huge well done for those of you who've got those super quickly.

If anyone's struggled with those, it might be worth just having a reminder of the past tense in some other lessons and taking a look and just reviewing the things that you might have looked at before.

Here is a breakdown of the lesson that we're going to be doing today.

We've covered the was and were reminder, and now we're going to move on to look at what a pronoun is.

So, I know the title of the lesson is pronouns, but what are they? And then we'll move on to deciding when to use them.

We might understand what they are, but actually what's the point in us knowing what they are if we don't know when to use them ourselves.

You're then going to have your own turn, your own opportunity to show me how much you have learned through this lesson and how well you can use pronouns, and then we'll celebrate it at the end.

At the end of today's lesson, you will be writing about this picture.

I'm showing you the picture now so that you've got it.

So stare at the screen, let it enter your brain, keep it in there for the next few minutes, because over the lesson, I will be giving you some examples that are going to help you write about this picture at the end.

So please do use your notebook, use your pen and pencil to make sure you're making notes that will help you with your final activity.

Now, we will start off by just reminding ourselves of nouns and how a noun can be a subject and an object because this is going to be really helpful to understand pronouns.

A noun as I'm sure all of you are currently shouting at the screen is a naming word.

Yep.

You're absolutely right, a noun is a naming word.

Within that we get subjects of sentences, we get object of sentences.

The subject of a sentence is the noun that is the what or who doing the main action.

For example, in the sentence, the dog barked at the postman.

The dog is the subject because the dog is the noun doing the barking.

Yeah? The dog is the thing or the who that is doing the action, doing the verb.

An object On the other hand is the noun in the sentence that something is being done to.

The postman is being barked at.

He's receiving the verb.

He's receiving the action, which makes him the object of the sentence.

So, we have nouns that are naming words, and then within the nouns you can have a subject and you can also have an object.

On the screen now you should be able to see a title that says what is a pronoun? And I've given you a definition in the pink box, your left hand side.

So, my definition is words that can be used instead of a noun in a sentence to avoid repeating yourself.

We use a pronoun to replace a noun when we've already said that noun once.

For example, if I said to you, "the dog barked at the postman, "the dog barked very loudly." It just sounds a bit repetitive.

You're thinking, well, you've already told me about the dog, why do I need to know it's the dog again? So instead of me saying the dog and repeating my noun, I could have said it, it barked loudly.

The subject and the object, I have put the definitions underneath in the pink box.

Just to remind you, so, if you would like to take the time now you can pause the video here to just read them over to yourselves, read them out loud to refresh your memories, and then there is an activity in the next part for you to remember those definitions.

Here is your activity.

I've got all of the same boxes, however, I've been a little bit annoying and mix them up for you and your job is to unmixed them essentially.

You need to match the blue word pronouns, subject, object with the correct definition in the pink boxes.

Please do pause the video here to give yourself time to read through them and then match up the words with their correct definitions.

When you think you've got the right answers, press play again and we'll have a look.

Brilliant work.

You are now all experts on pronouns, subjects and objects.

So the pronoun is the word you use instead of a noun in a sentence, your subject is the what or who doing the main action, and your object is who or what the subject does something to, so they receive the action.

Really, really good work.

Well done.

Now I am going to draw your attention to subject pronouns and object pronouns.

So you can see why you needed to know those definitions, because there is a slight difference between your subject pronoun and your object pronoun.

The example at the top of this page is, the train left without the conductor.

Now, when we want to replace the subject, we highlight, So, I have the train highlighted in red and I'll take away the train, I take away the noun and I replace it with its subject pronoun it.

It's not he, it's not she, it's an it because it's a thing.

So, it left without the conductor.

Your object pronoun is slightly different.

The train left without the conductor, it left without him.

We wouldn't say he, because if we said the train left without he, that just doesn't sound right, does it? We know it's him.

So, your subject pronouns and your object pronouns will be different words, but we are going to do some practise now so we can have a look of the next few bits of the video and make sure we get it spot on.

In this activity then, we are focusing on the subject of each sentence.

I would like you to underline the subject in each one of the sentences.

Quick reminder, the subject is the part of the sentence that is doing the action.

The who or what that is doing the action.

So, pause the video here and then press play when you are ready to move on.

How did you guys do? I'm pretty confident you did really, really well with this, but we will quickly run through the answers anyway.

Daniel munched his lunch.

We've underlined Daniel because actually he's the person munching his lunch.

He is doing the action.

The pencil is sharp.

The pencil is the subject of the sentence.

That's what we're talking about.

The pencil is being sharp essentially.

You may have struggled with this one only because the verb is less obvious because the verb is to be and we use is, however, just remember the pencil if that's what we're talking about in that sentence, isn't it? It is the subject of the sentence.

Number three, the students fidgeted in their seats.

Which I am sure none of you ever do.

I do it all the time.

I must admit it.

So, the students fidgeted in their seats.

The students are the ones doing the fidgeting.

The students are the subject.

They are the ones doing the action.

Next we have Lily felt happy and excited.

Lily is the subject because she's the one doing the feeling, okay? Your next activity, we are going to step it up because you all did so wonderfully by underlining the subjects.

You're now going to replace the subject that you underlined with the correct subject pronoun.

You have them underlined already.

What will you need to do is choose the pronoun that you think should replace the subject.

I have put some options at the bottom of the screen for you.

However, bear in mind I have tripped you a little bit because I have included five and there are only four answers.

So do be careful.

Pause the video here, replace all of those subjects with the correct pronoun and then press play when you're ready to move on.

Excellent.

Absolutely wonderful work.

We'll go through the answers again very quickly.

Just so you guys can take them all off in your notebooks or pieces of paper.

He munched his lunch.

It is sharp.

They fidgeted in their seats.

She felt happy and excited.

You may have been a little bit confused or tempted by number three to use we.

You may have thought, oh, is it we fidgeted? Or is it they fidgeted? Now the reason is they fidgeted don't forget you've got their seats, It's not our seats.

So, it has to be they.

They fidgeted in their seats.

You're not included in it.

If it was our seats, then it would be we because you are included in that one.

Another activity, just to make sure that you really, really understand subject pronouns really well.

There are three sentences on the screen.

In each sentence, there is a gap, In that gap I would like you to include either he, she, it, or they.

So choose the subject pronoun that you think makes the most sense to put in the gap.

Press pause when you're ready and then get on with the activity, press play when you feel like you're comfortable with your answers.

Good luck.

And how did you guys do on this one? I'm pretty confident you will have done really, really well again.

We will go through the answers together.

I'll read out the sentences for you.

Number one, Lily and her babysitter walked home from school.

They stopped to buy a drink.

There's two of them.

So we need to use they because there is more than one of them.

They stopped to buy a drink.

James went to orchestra.

He met Lily there.

They both played the clarinet in the concert.

We need he first of all because we're only talking about James.

There's only one James and James is a male name, a boy's name.

So he met Lily there.

But then we move on to talk about the fact that both of them play the clarinet.

So there's two of them playing the clarinet.

We need the plural, we need again.

Finally, Lily was a performer.

She, because Lily is a girl's name and it's just one Lily.

She was very good at singing.

It was her favourite hobby.

Now that's interesting because we don't have it until that part.

Why do you think we are using it here? Why are we not using she or he or they? Why have we used it? I'm sure you are all shouting at the screen with the correct answer, but I am just going to confirm it for you, we are using the pronoun it because we're talking about singing.

It's not a he, it's not a she, and we need to talk about it as an it.

Therefore, instead of repeating singing was her favourite hobby, we replaced singing with it.

Now some of you may have noticed that the image of me in the top right hand corner has disappeared.

Don't panic, I'm still here.

The only reason I've stopped using the webcam for the rest of the video is to make sure there's enough space on the screen for you to see all of the information.

We're now going to move on to object pronouns.

We've looked at subject pronouns.

We're now looking at object pronouns.

There are three pink boxes on your screen labelled A B and C.

The sentence in the boxes is the same.

The dog barked at the postman.

Each sentence has a different part underlined.

You need to pause the video here and choose the sentence that has the object underlined.

Quick reminder, the object is the part of the sentence which the verb is doing something to.

Okay? The subject and the verb are doing something to the object.

Pause the video here and select the correct sentence with the object underlined.

Excellent.

Well done.

So, the correct sentence is now in the green box, the dog barked at the postman.

It should have the postman underlined because the postman is the one who is being barked at by the dog.

He's receiving that action of the dog barking got him.

Good work.

Another activity for you to practise your object pronouns is on the screen in front of you.

I've done the first one for you as an example.

For each sentence, you will be underlining the object pronoun.

The first one, the big dog scared me.

I've underlined me because that's the object pronoun.

The big dog would be the subject and it's scaring me.

So me would be my object pronoun.

Pause the video here and underline the correct object pronouns for each sentence.

How did you do? I'm sure you've all done really, really well.

I am going to go through the answers for anyone who might have been a bit confused by any of them.

The first one we've already spoken about the big dog scared me.

Number two, I wanted to hug her.

So the action of wanting to do something is to her, okay? She's receiving the hug, so she is the object pronoun, her.

We were so happy for them.

The other team really wanted to beat us.

And finally, I gave my last sweet to him.

You should notice that the object pronoun in these examples is at the end of the sentence.

That's a really common place for them to be.

And you'll notice as well that instead of she and he, we're using words like her and him.

So, our subject pronouns and that object pronouns are different in what the word is and also in their placement usually.

Now we're looking at the rule for when we use pronouns.

At the beginning you'll remember me saying to you that we'll first of all learn about what a pronoun is before moving on to deciding when to use them.

When you're deciding when to use a pronoun, the rule you need to follow, if the next sentence uses the same subject, you should use a pronoun to replace it.

This example shows you what I mean by that.

So, look at the top sentence there.

The wind whipped across the moor.

The wind was bitterly cold.

The next sentence down, I've underlined the repeated subject.

I've said the wind at the beginning of both of my sentences.

And as we discussed earlier in the lesson, we've really don't like repeating our subjects in the sentence straight after one another.

It can get a bit boring for the reader, but also for the writer, it's a little bit boring if we keep using the same words.

You can see what I've done with the final sentence is replaced the wind with the pronoun it.

The wind whipped across the moor, it was bitterly cold.

on this slide, I've kept the rule at the top for just to refer back to, and then I've given you the instruction for what you need to do for this activity.

You need to read the paragraph below and replace any repeated subjects or objects with the correct pronoun.

For example, the old man wrapped his coat around him tightly.

The old man wasn't sure he could walk much further.

You can say that I've underlined the old man, because it's the subject of two sentences in a row.

What I would do if I were completing this activity would be to cross out the second, underlined the old man and replace it with the pronoun he.

As you complete the paragraph, that's what you need to do every time you see a subject that is repeated in the next sentence.

For some of you, you'll definitely be able to have a look for any repeated objects and replace those with the correct pronoun as well.

Pause the video here, complete the activity, and then press play when you're ready to see how you've done.

Good luck.

Absolutely brilliant.

Really, really good work for trying to have a go at that and complete in it which most of you will definitely have done.

The old man wrapped his coat around him tightly.

He wasn't sure he could walk much further.

Leah and Joe walked towards the old man.

They were worried about him.

So we've replaced the second Leah and Joe with they.

So that's a subject pronoun.

And then some of you might have replaced the old man as an object with him.

Leah offered the man her arm for support.

She wanted to make sure he was okay.

So, in that final sentence, you've got two subject pronouns.

The she is replacing Leah, and the he is replacing the man.

If you got all of those a 100% right, that's amazing work, you should be really proud of yourselves.

If you got some of them right, you should still be really proud of yourself.

It's a challenging thing to think about.

And if you want me to go back and have a refresher and then have another go, feel free to rewind the video and do that.

You remember me telling you about this picture at the beginning? I'm sure you do it wasn't that long ago.

So, the picture that you can see on the right hand side is the same one as from the beginning of the lesson.

You are now going to write a paragraph about the picture, but you are going to do so remembering the rule about the next sentence using the same subject and having to use a pronoun to replace it.

I've got the rule on the screen for you.

I've also given you a sentence starter, Lily faced away from the dog.

However, some of you will have been making loads of excellent notes while you've been watching this lesson.

If you have been doing that, you'll probably find that you have a lot of sentences that you can include in this paragraph now.

You've saved yourself a little bit of thinking time.

So, do have a look through your notes.

Alternatively, you can use the sentence starter, or you can just have a go and get started from whatever you would like to use.

There is a challenge option on the screen as well for you to replace any of the repeated objects in your writing with pronouns.

So, all of you definitely should be replacing any repeated subjects with pronouns, but some of you might want to have a go at repeating your object to.

Pause the video here, complete the task, and then press play when you're ready to move on.

Absolutely amazing work.

Really, really good.

Well done.

You should all be super proud of yourself for getting to the end of the lesson.

We will quickly just have a look at what you possibly could have written.

I've tried to show you my thought process as I wrote my own paragraph.

You'll see that I crossed out she at the beginning and I chose to use Lily.

I wanted to use Lily as my subject because it's the first sentence.

So it's good for us to give our readers the name of the character.

If we said she, no one would know what we were talking about.

However, my second sentence, she stood on tiptoes to reach for the babysitter.

I've already told you it's Lily, I don't want to repeat my subject.

So I've included the subject pronoun she instead.

The dog looked worried.

It had scared Lily.

Again, I've introduced the dog first of all, but when I talk about it again, I replaced the dog with the subject pronoun it.

Finally, we have the babysitter put her arms around Lily.

She bent her knees to hug her.

So instead of the babysitter being repeated twice, we've replaced the babysitter with she.

Some of you who had to go at the objects, you may have included her instead of Lily, for example, the babysitter put her arms around her.

We will know that we're talking about Lily there because it's the only other female character in the story.

So you may have replaced the word Lily with her.

If you were having a go at replacing objects.

Well, that's us done for today.

Really, really great work, really proud of you all.

If you would like to share any of your work with your teachers, you could always ask your parent or carer to take a picture and just keep your teachers up to date with how great you're getting on while you're working at home.

Otherwise, we're all done for today.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

And I look forward to teaching you next time.