We are a family - Revision of Saxon Genitive ('S)

Here you have some exrcises to work with this topic. Let's start with a video to revise the vocabulary and the Saxon genitive ('S). Click here.

If you want to do some exercises you can use these links:

• Saxon genitive: explanation and exercises. Click here
• Family: click here and do this exercise here
• The Simpsons: vocabulary here

Here you have a video with idoms or expressions connected to the family; it's a bit difficult for beginners but it's quite interesting and you can practise some listening if you are not a beginner of English. Click here to see the video.

Saxon Genitive

There are plenty of teachers who use blogs to teach Englsh, like me. Here you are a link to one of those with a lot of exercises to practise: http://elenacarriles.wikispaces.com/THE+SAXON+GENITIVE but you also have these links: click here or this one (but this includes past tenses)
To finish with, try to do oral exercises using this structure:

• Sara has a dog. It's black --- Sarah's dog is black
• Joe has a cat. It's white --- Joe's cat is white

Howerver, be careful with nouns ending in -S or sibilant sounds like in the following examples. The pronunciation changes a lot:

• Alice has a daughter --- Alice's daughter (you have to pronounce an extra syllable /ælɪsiːz/)

However, you don't write or pronounce the extra 'S with plural forms

• My cousins have a house --- my cousins' house ( /ˈkʌzənsiz/ )

Notice that if it's ending in -S you don't write an extra -s like in the Simpsons' dog.

See you in class.