ELF: Possessive Nouns

Movie Trailer

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A)  Read the movie summary. As a baby, Buddy crawls into Santa’s gift sack at an orphanage on Christmas Eve. Santa unknowingly takes him back to the North Pole. With no parents, Buddy is raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows up, he feels like he doesn’t belong and finds out he is really a human. He then travels to New York City to find his real dad, a workaholic book publisher.

B)  Write the underlined vocabulary word from Exercise A next to its definition.

1.              Workaholic     __  means someone who works a lot.

2.      ____________________ means walking on one’s hands and knees.

3.      ____________________ means a bag.

4.      ____________________ means the day before Christmas or December 24^th.

5.      ____________________ means to become larger and stronger.

6.      ____________________ means to nurture someone and give the person
                                      what he or she needs until maturity.

7.      ____________________ means a place where children live whose parents

     have died or their location is unknown.

C)  Watch the movie trailer. 

D)  Match the character to its description.

1.         e    Walter 2.      ____  Emily 3.      ____  Michael 4.      ____  Jovie 5.      ____  Buddy 6.      ____  Emily and Walter

a.     is Papa Elf’s adopted son. b.     is Walter’s wife. c.     are Michael’s parents. d.     is Emily and Walter’s son. e.     is Buddy’s real (biological) father. f.        is Gimble’s employee.

E)  Write the complete sentence of your answers in Exercise D.

1.      Example:  Walter is Buddy’s real (biological) father.     

2.      _______________________________________________________________________

3.      _______________________________________________________________________

4.      _______________________________________________________________________

5.      _______________________________________________________________________

6.      _______________________________________________________________________

F)  Write sentences about your friends and family using the apostrophe s (‘s).

1.      Example:  Kiki is Jacqueline’s cat.                                   

2.      _______________________________________________________________________

3.      _______________________________________________________________________

4.      _______________________________________________________________________

5.      _______________________________________________________________________

6.      _______________________________________________________________________

ANSWERS

B)       

1.    Workaholic

2.    Crawls

3.    Sack

4.    Christmas Eve

5.    Grows up

6.    Raised

7.    Orphanage

D)

1.    E

2.    B

3.    D

4.    F

5.    A

6.    C

E) 

1.    Walter is Buddy’s real (biological) father.

2.    Emily is Walter’s wife.

3.    Michael is Emily and Walter’s son.

4.    Jovie is Gimble’s employee.

5.    Buddy is Papa Elf’s adopted son.

6.    Emily and Walter and Michael’s parents.

Worksheet: ELF - Possessive Nouns