Week 21

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4,5

Cambridge English

Today's Lesson

Homework check

Participle clauses page 66-67

Speaking page 67

Homework check

Vocabulary page 66

- Check exercise 1 yourself

- We will check part of exercise 2 now

- Check the rest of exercise 2 yourself

Exercise 2: Rewrite these sentences using the words in capitals.

Do not change the form of the word. 

Very few students attended the last lecture of the course. (ATTENDANCE)

I admire this student because she is so determined to succeed. (DETERMINATION)

Participle Clauses

Participle clauses enable us to say information in a more economical way. 

They are formed using:

- present participles (going, reading, seeing, walking, etc.), 

- past participles (gone, read, seen, walked, etc.) or 

- perfect participles (having gone, having read, having seen, etc.). 

We can use participle clauses when the participle and the verb in the main clause have the same subject. 

For example:

Participle clause: Waiting for Ellie, I made some tea. 

Original: While I was waiting for Ellie, I made some tea.

Participle clauses do not have a specific tense. 

The tense is indicated by the verb in the main clause.

Participle clauses are mainly used in written texts, 

particularly in a literary, academic or journalistic style. 

Examples:

Analysing the diaries, we found remarkably similar patterns.

Concerned about the lack of cultural awareness of their staff, 

a group of US business corporations prompted the research. 

Having administered a questionnaire, we got 696 responses. 

Expanding to make full clauses

Page 66: exercise 2

Example: 

Analysing the diaries, we found remarkably similar patterns.

Becomes: 

When we analysed the diaries, we found remarkably similar patterns. 

Because they ............, a group of US business corporations prompted the research.

Rewrite sentences 

Page 67: exercise 4

Example:

1. While I was walking round the exhibition, I caught sight of an old school friend. (Walking)

Becomes: 

Walking round the exhibition, I caught sight of 

an old school friend. 

2. Because Marti had made so many mistakes in her homework, she had to do it all over again. (Having)

4. As Jack didn't have anyone to spend the evening with, he decided to have an early night. (Not)

Speaking

Speaking: page 67 exercise 5 (pictures)

Leave this meeting

Go to your group channel in this Team

Look at the pictures

Take turns to talk about differences you can see

Come back to the main meeting when you are done