Materials:

• People or pictures of people with names.

Language to be Taught:

• Who is he? Who is she?
• He is Mike. She is Gloria. (Do not use the determiner a with names.)
• Is he John?
• Yes, he is John. Yes, he is.
• No, he isn't.
• Is he _________ or __________?
• etc.

Possible Procedures

• Student should know the names of the people beforehand.
• Say He is Mr. Brown. Student repeats.
• Point out that the determiner a is omitted before names and that names are capitalized.
• Introduce isn't as a contraction for is not.
• Student asks and teacher answers, then reverse.