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DaveE714 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Anticipated problems for teaching the verb "have"

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00 I'm currently working on a lesson plan to teach the verb "have" to describe a person's physical appearance. ie Subject + have (I have blue eyes.) Subject + has (She has blonde hair.)02br
00 Any suggestions are welcome, especially in regards to anticipated problems and solutions to these problems. Thank you.0-
  

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0Hi Dave,02br 02br 00I am curious. Are you an English teacher? The question you posted seemed to be very basic.

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  • 0Hi Dave,02br 02br 00I am curious.
  • Are you an English teacher?
  • The question you posted seemed to be very basic.
  • What level is your 0102 00 Plan aiming at?
  • 02br 02br 00She 00has nice long legs00 but 00does not have the rest of the body 00to go with it050010id2
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0Hi Dave,02br
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00I am curious. Are you an English teacher? The question you posted seemed to be very basic. What level is your 010200 Plan aiming at? 02br
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00I 00have00 00brown eyes00 and 00black hair 00but I 00don’t have a strong physical bui
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0 Hi Goodman,02br
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00 The lesson plan is for an assignment aimed at elementary/beginner level students. I'm taking the I to I online TEFL course and it's the 2nd task in module 9. I have no previous teaching experience. I was looking for feedback on activities/games(eliciting techniques, ways to introduce the topic) to use for this lesson plan as well as any anticip
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0 How about "She has two faces"? 02br
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0 I "have" never really experienced problems in my classes when I use have to mean "is" or "are". You could start with something like:02br
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00A: What color IS my hair?02br
00B: Brown02br
00A: You also have brown hair. / You don't have brown hair, you have blonde hair.02br
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00Next, examples without IS:02br
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0Hello Dave02br
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00You could present "have" in this sense as "to possess (as an attribute)" – e.g. if you "have" blue eyes, you "possess" blue eyes. This could be contrasted with other related meanings of "to have", such as its sense of "to possess an object" ("I have a red car", "you have too much money", etc.). 02br
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00Perhaps you could make it m
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0 I imagine that, even if you confine it to appearance expressions, you're going to run into trouble with when to use 01i00have02i00 and when to use 01i00has02i00. Secondly, there's going to be a fuss over the question forms 01i00do ... have02i00 and 01i00does ... have02i00. Then there's going to be a s
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HAVE + object (a noun: person place or thing) I HAVE brown HAIR (object or noun).
TO BE (verbs) + adjective (describing word) I am THIN (adj.)
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