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Dinosaur Audio Guide: Pronouns for Emphasis

Edit a dinosaur museum audio-guide script using intensive pronouns, and distinguish emphasis from reflexive pronoun use.

Grade 6ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toL.6.1.b

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 6
Subject: ELA
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students use intensive pronouns that agree with the nouns or pronouns they emphasize.
Students distinguish intensive pronouns used for emphasis from reflexive pronouns.
Students revise sentences to place intensive pronouns beside the intended referents.

How to use

Read the audio-guide script, then have students complete the grammar tasks independently. Discuss how removing an intensive pronoun changes emphasis but preserves the basic sentence.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

L.6.1.b

Use intensive pronouns, such as myself or themselves, for emphasis.

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Dinosaur Audio Guide: Pronouns for Emphasis

Use intensive pronouns to emphasize who does an action.

Read the Script

An intensive pronoun emphasizes a noun or pronoun: “The curator herself checked it.” Removing it leaves the basic meaning intact. A reflexive pronoun receives or completes an action: “She reminded herself.”

Voices in the Dinosaur Hall

1Welcome to the dinosaur hall. I am Zerin, one of the student writers who helped prepare this recording. Before we begin, look at the skeleton ahead of you. Some museum skeletons include casts, which are copies of fossil bones. Labels explain what each display contains. Our job was to turn that information into a guide visitors could follow without staring at a screen.

2At the first stop, notice the long tail stretching behind the skeleton. The curator herself checked every description in our script. A small diagram beside the display identifies several bones. The recording pauses here so visitors have time to compare the diagram with the skeleton.

3Next, follow the floor arrows to the footprint display. A footprint is a trace of an animal's activity rather than a piece of its body. The tracks themselves provide clues about movement. However, one track does not reveal every detail of an animal's life. We chose our words carefully so that a possible explanation would not sound like a proven fact.

4My recording partner, Pavel, wanted each stop to include a question. He himself tested the questions with a group of students before we recorded them. When a question confused listeners, we revised it instead of blaming them. We ourselves shortened several descriptions after discovering that visitors wanted more time to look around. The pauses became part of the guide, not empty spaces to fill.

5At the final stop, you will hear a question about the evidence you noticed. You do not need to memorize every label. Choose one display and explain which detail helped you understand it. The answer belongs to you, not to the recording. Before leaving, check the nearby panel for another view of the skeleton that greeted you.

In paragraph 3, what does the intensive pronoun “themselves” emphasize?

A. the visitors studying the tracks
B. the tracks that provide clues
C. the animals making the tracks
D. the writers describing the tracks

In paragraph 4, what happens if “ourselves” is removed from “We ourselves shortened several descriptions”?

A. The sentence no longer identifies who acted.
B. The sentence says the descriptions shortened the writers.
C. The sentence becomes an incomplete thought.
D. The basic meaning remains, but the emphasis decreases.

Which statement describes the emphasis created by an intensive pronoun in paragraph 2?

A. The curator personally reviewed the script's descriptions.
B. The diagram clearly identifies the skeleton's bones.
C. The visitors have time to examine the display.
D. The skeleton has a tail extending behind it.

Underline the sentence from paragraph 2 that uses an intensive pronoun to support the answer to question 3.

At the first stop, notice the long tail stretching behind the skeleton.The curator herself checked every description in our script.A small diagram beside the display identifies several bones.The recording pauses here so visitors have time to compare the diagram with the skeleton.

Prepare New Recording Lines

Complete and revise these additional lines for the dinosaur audio guide. Match each intensive pronoun to the person or thing it emphasizes.

Use “myself,” “yourself,” or “yourselves” in each blank. Use each word once to emphasize the stated speaker or listener.

Word bank: yourselves · myself · yourself

Zerin says: “I recorded the introduction.”
To one visitor: “You can choose the next stop.”
To a group: “You can compare the two displays.”

Which line correctly uses an intensive pronoun to emphasize the model?

A. The model himself shows the dinosaur's size.
B. The model themselves shows the dinosaur's size.
C. The model itself shows the dinosaur's size.
D. The model ourselves shows the dinosaur's size.

An editor wrote, “The two narrators himself adjusted the microphone.” Which revision corrects the intensive pronoun?

A. The two narrators herself adjusted the microphone.
B. The two narrators yourself adjusted the microphone.
C. The two narrators itself adjusted the microphone.
D. The two narrators themselves adjusted the microphone.

Pavel wants to emphasize that he, rather than someone else, wrote the closing question. Which line does this correctly?

A. Myself wrote the closing question for this guide.
B. I myself wrote the closing question for this guide.
C. The closing question itself ends this audio guide.
D. I wrote myself a closing question for this guide.

Which revision of “The guide explains the display” emphasizes the guide, not the display?

A. The guide itself explains the display.
B. The guide explains the display itself.
C. The guide explains itself beside the display.
D. Itself explains the display beside the guide.

Check the Emphasis

Decide how each pronoun functions. Intensive pronouns add emphasis; reflexive pronouns refer an action back to its subject.

10.

Sort each sentence by the function of its bold pronoun.

Pavel reminded himself to pause after the question.The visitors themselves selected the next recording.I myself checked the pronunciation notes.The writers congratulated themselves after the final recording.

Intensive: adds emphasis	Reflexive: receives the action

11.

Underline the two sentences in this recording-session note that use intensive pronouns.

Zerin herself carried the script into the recording room.Pavel gave himself a moment to read the new ending.The student editors themselves approved the changes.We reminded ourselves to leave a pause after each question.

12.

A student says, “Any pronoun ending in -self or -selves is intensive.” Which explanation corrects the student's mistake?

A. These pronouns are intensive when they add emphasis rather than receive an action.
B. These pronouns are intensive when they describe more than one person.
C. These pronouns are intensive when they replace a sentence's subject.
D. These pronouns are intensive when they appear at the end of a sentence.

13.

Write two sentences about the audio guide that both use “themselves”: one where it is intensive and one where it is reflexive. Then explain how the removal test shows the difference.