1st Conditional and Reflexive Pronouns
1st Conditional and Reflexive Pronouns
COMPLETE:
____YOU BREAK A
MIRROR, YOU ____
HAVE BAD LUCK
___ _____ A BLACK CAT
CROSSES YOUR PATH, YOU
______ HAVE BAD LUCK.
IF ________ FIND A FOUR
LEAVES CLOVER, _______
WILL HAVE GOOD LUCK.
IF YOU THROW SALT OVER
YOUR SHOULDERS,
__________________________
IF
_________________
________
_________________
__________, YOU
WILL HAVE BAD
LUCK.
Workbok .page 127 ex. 1
Kenny is thinking about the consecuences of going to Hawaii on
vacation. Complete the blanks with the correct from of the verbs
from the box and will or won´t .
break up start take get find find go
it itself
we ourselves
they themselves
Reflexive pronouns
1.-Reflexive pronouns are used when the subject and object
are the same. (REGULAR REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS)
Eg. I hurt myself.
Eg. He shot himself.
2.- They are used when you want to emphasize the subject it
means the person who does an action
Eg.- I'll do it myself. (No one else will help me.)
Eg.-They ate all the food themselves. (No one else had any.)
3.- They are used as the object of a preposition, when the
subject and the object are the same.
E. I bought a present for myself.
He did his HW by himself. (he did it alone.)
That woman is talking to herself.
Study the examples and complete the blanks
Personal Reflexive
Pronoun Pronoun
Work it out
My father hated himself myself
I often talk to ____________
I myself
My mother didn´t like herself herself
She enjoys ____________at
you parties
yourself
(singular)
Look at yourself Chuck has learned to accept
you
yourselves
himself
_________
(plural) Do I like myself? They don´t like
he himself themselves
_______________
He helps people to feel better You must wash
she herself about themselves Yourself/ yourselves
________________
it itself
we ourselves
they themselves
Ex. 9 Listen to these sentences and mark the stressed
words.
My father sings to himself in the shower.
It takes me five minutes to dress myself
I talk to myself when I play tennis.
I look at myself in the mirror before I go to school
When Mom is away, Dad cooks for himself.
Ex.1 workbook page 128
Rewrite the sentences using the correct reflexive
pronoun and the verbs in parethesis
Eg. My little sister wrote this story. Nobody helped her.
She wrote the story herself
Peter doesn´t like anybody to touch his car
(repair) __________________________________
Mrs. Big didn´t share the carrot cake with anybody.
(Eat) ____________________________________
My classmates decorated the classroom for Christmas.
All of the decorations were hand-made.
(make)__________________________________________
We have been to many exotic places and have taken
lots of photographs for the album.
(take)___________________________________
I can´t afford to have a hairdresser do my hair for the
party.
(do)__________________________________
You can´t count on anybody to solve your problems.
(deal) ___________________________________
Choose the correct reflexive pronouns.
(myself - yourself - himself - herself - itself - ourselves
- yourselves – themselves)