13th Day of Class Relative Clausses

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13th day of class

Day schedule: June 30th, 2020

- Defining relative clauses


- Practice exercises – Homework review
- Online practice exercises
- Speaking or Oral practice – Using relative causes or questions

Defining relative clauses

A relative clause is a sentence joined by a relative pronoun.

Example: Rodriguez is the man who was born in Venecia,


Cundinamarca

Relative pronouns
Who People
Which Things / Objects / Animals
Where Places
When Time
Whose Possession (cuyo/cuya)
That (who / which) – People / Things (informal)
Informal language

Examples:

Ø This is the box which they used to put their shoes


Ø That is the room where they kids slept last night
Ø March in the month when all restrictions started in Colombia
Ø Leidy is the student whose brother lives in Miami
Ø Rodriguez is the person who bought a new Ferrari this year
Ø Did you bring the computer which you were using last night?
Ø Guarnizo is the man whose wife is a doctor
Ø Melgar is the city where they consolidated their love
Homework:

Defining relative clauses


Instruction: Choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

Who – Which – Whose – Where – When

1. 1964 was the year when my mother started her career.


2. 6 am was the time when we all had to get out of bed.
3. A carpenter is a person who works with wood.
4. Can you tell me the reason which I have to write it?
5. I want you to buy the computer which has a CD ROM.
6. Is that the old man who had his car stolen last week?
7. There is a woman whose daughter is a lawyer.
8. There may soon come a time when all work is done by machines.
9. That is not the girl whose brother won the prize last week.
10. Where is the car which they stole last night _____ / 10

- Page 23 / Exercise 3a

1. which
2. who
3. when
4. where
5. which
6. whose
_____ / 6
Online practice and consolidation exercises

Exercise # 1:

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_03_012e?c
c=co&selLanguage=en

Exercise # 2:

https://www.espressoenglish.net/relative-clauses-exercises/

Homework:

- Listening – Page 24:

Ø Exercise 8c – Write Sue, Ekaterina or Ben.

- Listening – Page 25:

Ø Exercise – 1a and 1b

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