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The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – Compare regular and reflexive pronouns through matching exercises and movie scene analysis featuring John Cusack in this intermediate esl lesson.
• – Use reflexive pronouns correctly with prepositions like “by” while understanding when reflexive forms cannot be used for adult english lessons.
• – Practice grammar through video comprehension and quiz activities that reinforce reflexive pronoun usage using these english teaching materials.

This Intermediate ESL lesson focuses on teaching and practicing reflexive pronouns.

Warm-up

The lesson starts with a few questions, all of which have the same answer (a reflexive pronoun). 

Grammar: reflexive pronouns

In this part, regular pronouns (I, we, they, etc.) and reflexive pronouns are compared. 

After that, the student matches regular pronouns with the corresponding reflexive pronouns.

Video time: John Cusack in  1408

The student watches a segment from the movie 1408 and observes Cusack’s actions in the scene. Then, they fill in the gaps using reflexive pronouns.

By + reflexive pronouns/Prepositions of place + object pronouns

The meaning of reflexive pronouns changes slightly when they follow the preposition “by.” The student learns when we cannot use reflexive pronouns.

Quiz

This is a brief overview of the lesson.