ELF: Possessive Nouns

Movie Trailer

(00:00:00 - 00:02:15)

A)  Read the movie summary. As a baby, Buddy crawls into Santa’s gift sack at an orphanage on Christmas Eve. Santa unknowingly takes him back to the North Pole. With no parents, Buddy is raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows up, he feels like he doesn’t belong and finds out he is really a human. He then travels to New York City to find his real dad, a workaholic book publisher.

B)  Write the underlined vocabulary word from Exercise A next to its definition.

1.              Workaholic     __  means someone who works a lot.

2.      ____________________ means walking on one’s hands and knees.

3.      ____________________ means a bag.

4.      ____________________ means the day before Christmas or December 24^th.

5.      ____________________ means to become larger and stronger.

6.      ____________________ means to nurture someone and give the person
                                      what he or she needs until maturity.

7.      ____________________ means a place where children live whose parents

     have died or their location is unknown.

C)  Watch the movie trailer. 

D)  Match the character to its description.

1.         e    Walter 2.      ____  Emily 3.      ____  Michael 4.      ____  Jovie 5.      ____  Buddy 6.      ____  Emily and Walter

a.     is Papa Elf’s adopted son. b.     is Walter’s wife. c.     are Michael’s parents. d.     is Emily and Walter’s son. e.     is Buddy’s real (biological) father. f.        is Gimble’s employee.

E)  Write the complete sentence of your answers in Exercise D.

1.      Example:  Walter is Buddy’s real (biological) father.     

2.      _______________________________________________________________________

3.      _______________________________________________________________________

4.      _______________________________________________________________________

5.      _______________________________________________________________________

6.      _______________________________________________________________________

F)  Write sentences about your friends and family using the apostrophe s (‘s).

1.      Example:  Kiki is Jacqueline’s cat.                                   

2.      _______________________________________________________________________

3.      _______________________________________________________________________

4.      _______________________________________________________________________

5.      _______________________________________________________________________

6.      _______________________________________________________________________

ANSWERS

B)       

1.    Workaholic

2.    Crawls

3.    Sack

4.    Christmas Eve

5.    Grows up

6.    Raised

7.    Orphanage

D)

1.    E

2.    B

3.    D

4.    F

5.    A

6.    C

E) 

1.    Walter is Buddy’s real (biological) father.

2.    Emily is Walter’s wife.

3.    Michael is Emily and Walter’s son.

4.    Jovie is Gimble’s employee.

5.    Buddy is Papa Elf’s adopted son.

6.    Emily and Walter and Michael’s parents.

Worksheet: ELF - Possessive Nouns

ELF: Past Tense Questions

Scene 4 - Buddy's Journey

00:17:00 – 00:21:30

Worksheet: ELF - Past Tense Questions

ELF: Past Tense Verbs

Scene 4 - Buddy's Journey

( 00:17:00 - 00:21:30)

 

This is one of the funniest Christmas movies I've seen. Will Farrell, who plays Buddy the elf, is a superb actor in this film who will leave you laughing again and again, no matter how many times you see the movie. It's a must see for all ages.

In this clip, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City. It's a great piece to focus on culture shock with your students and talk about their own encounters during their travels and first few months in a new country.

A)   What did you do when you came to the United States?
Check (√) the things in the chart below that you did when you came to the U.S.

	You	Your Partner	Buddy
1				say good-bye to friends & family
2				pack a suitcase
3				walk through candy cane land
4				ride a bus
5				walk through snow
6				hug a raccoon
7				go to a coffee shop
8				walk through the desert
9				eat gum from the subway
10				walk through a forest
11				play in revolving doors
12				ride a train
13				throw up
14				ride a plane

B)   Ask your partner what he or she did when they came to the U.S. 
Check (√) the things s/he did in the chart above.

A:  Did you say good-bye to friends and family?

B:  Yes, I did.  /  No, I didn’t.

C)  Watch the movie clip.

Check (√) the things in the chart above that Buddy did on his journey to New York City.

PAST TENSE

Regular Verbs						Irregular Verbs
Writing			pronunciation			eat - ate drink - drank go - went say -said ride - rode sing - sang sit - sat write - wrote
I He She It We You They	worked yesterday. didn’t work yesterday.		[id]	I waited for the bus.
			[t]	I worked until 5:00. I typed a letter. I passed my test. I washed the dishes. I watched TV. I fixed my bike.
			[d]	I played the piano. I cleaned my room. I shaved my legs.

Spelling Rules

-ed	-d	Double the consonant	-ied
cook - cooked wash - washed play - played	dance - danced bake - baked	hug - hugged pet - petted sip - sipped	cry - cried study - studied

D)   Write 4 sentences about yourself – two positive sentences and two negative sentences.  (Example) I didn’t hug a raccoon.

1.      ________________________________________________________________________

2.      ________________________________________________________________________

3.      ________________________________________________________________________

4.      ________________________________________________________________________

E)    Write 4 sentences about your partner – two positive sentences and two negative sentences.  (Example) Lisa rode a train.

1.      ________________________________________________________________________

2.      ________________________________________________________________________

3.      ________________________________________________________________________

4.      ________________________________________________________________________

F)    Write 4 sentences about Buddy – two positive sentences and two negative sentences.  (Example) Buddy walked through snow.    [ t ]

1.      ________________________________________________________________________

2.      ________________________________________________________________________

3.      ________________________________________________________________________

4.      ________________________________________________________________________

G)   Circle the regular past tense verbs (-ed endings) that you wrote in Exercises D, E and F.

H)   Write the sound of the –ed ending in brackets [   ] at the end of the line of your regular past tense verb sentences like in Example F.

I)     Read the sentences to your partner.

ANSWERS

C)

1.    Yes

2.    No

3.    Yes

4.    Yes

5.    No

6.    Yes

7.    Yes

8.    No

9.    Yes

10. Yes

11. Yes

12. Yes

13. No

14. No

Worksheet: ELF - Past Tense Verbs