Apr 18: Defining relative clauses

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome to giraffe week!

Monday April 19, 2021

Today

• Instruction on defining relative clauses (15 min)
• Practice with homework exercises from the book (20 min)

Lesson goals

After this lesson, you can...

• ... identify the purposes of all defining relative clauses.
• ... distinguish the correct uses of all defining relative clauses.
• ... correctly use defining relative clause in a sentence.

Defining relative clauses

After this lesson, you can...

• ... identify the purposes of all defining relative clauses.
• ... distinguish the correct uses of all defining relative clauses.
• ... correctly use defining relative clause in a sentence.

Defining relative clauses

The Rule: We use defining relative clauses to make it clear exactly who or what you are talking about.
> Ancient Egyptians who had toothache didn't use to go to the dentist.

• Defining relative clauses give us essential information – information that tells us who or what we are talking about.

Step-by-step

> A vaccination is something _________ prevents you from getting a disease.

1. Find the topic in the sentence.
2. Is it a person, thing, animal, place, time or possession?
3. Is it possible to use both "which" and "that"?
4. Fill in the correct defining relative clause. 

I know a man whose cat got the coronavirus.

- Why is it "whose" and not "that" or "which"?

I know a man whose cat got the coronavirus.

- How can you change this sentence using "which"?

Homework for tomorrow

Defining relative clauses:

• SB exercise 2c on page 83
• WB exercise 2 on page 67
  

Vocabulary about medicine

• SB exercise 3 on page 83
• WB exercise 1 on page 66