4. Sonia is Paco's sister
Reading activity
Sonia is Paco's sister
She is very good at English. Sonia's English Teacher is really happy with her. Sonia's friends at school also like English a lot. They get very good marks in English.
Paco is studying English at the moment. He is learning the Saxon Genitive case and he is a bit confused, so he asks her sister Sonia for help. Sonia teaches her brother Francisco the Saxon Genitive by reading a text about Britain's National Day:
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- Scotland's National Day is Saint Andrew's Day (30 November).
- Saint David's Day (1 March) is the National Day of Wales.
- England's National Day is Saint George's Day (23 April).
- Saint Patrick's Day (17 March) is an official Bank Holiday in Northern Ireland.
Paco learns how to use the saxon genitive by observing the examples above. And you?
Identify all the saxon genitive cases you can find in the text.
Rewrite the following sentences in the genitive case.
The father of Paco
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Paco's father
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Father 's Paco
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Andrés is Paco friend's
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Andrés is Paco's friend.
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Paco's parents live in Cáceres.
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Paco parents' live in Cáceres.
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Important
The saxon genitive case may affect people, animals or any other word. Look at these examples of literary works:
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Carroll
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,by Mark Twain.
- The Ass in the Lion's Skin, by Aesop.
- Nobody's Story, a short story by Henry James.
- Puck of Pook's Hill, by Rudyard Kipling.
- Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare.
We even can find a double genitive case, like in Love's Labour's Lost, by W. Shakespeare.
Further knowledge
- In order to practice the saxon genitive structure, rewrite the following sentences here.
Vocabulary: relatives
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This is Paco's family: His father Antonio, his mother Isabel, his sister Sonia and his brother Carlos.
In order to enlarge your vocabulary related to family members, have a look here and you can see a large list of relatives. Then, listen carefully and try to assimilate some family members in this website.
Curiosity
By Mark Kobayashi-Hillary.
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Commemorating the birthday of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), Burns' Night is a patriotic festival celebrated on 25 January, wherever Scots gather together.
First commemorated by the Burns Clubs soon after the poet's death, the evening begins with traditional food: powsowdie (sheep's head broth), cabbie-claw (dried cod with horseradish and egg sauce), Finnan toasties (smoked haddock) and haggis (minced mutton, offal, oatmeal and spices boiled in a sheep's stomach.
The meal ends with patriotic and sentimental speeches, Scottish dancing and performances of Burns' narrative poems.
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