relative pronouns and clauses

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• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Welcome!

Happy to see you today!

Take a seat and wait till we get started!

Today:

Throwback to yesterday

Refresh relative pronouns

Practice

Introduce relative clauses

Practice

Homework?

Past simple - irregular verbs

What do we remember?

The video

The bill is the 'challenger act', which would allocate money to the building of a memorial statue. 

They tried to call Chris Dodd, who was the go-to person for law making. 

There is a library of congress, where the law book should be.

The bill that the video talked about was very important.

relative pronouns

The man, who was waiting on the bus, was wearing a red coat

You're going to be late for the meeting which is in 5 minutes

South Street , where the mysterious man was last seen, is now empty and deserted. 

He went to the same school that my father went to

who - which - that - where

Who  ---> people (sometimes animals)

"The boy, who was only 10 years old, solved the murder"

Which --> things (sometimes animals)

"We had pizza yesterday, which is my favourite meal"

That --> people and things both

"Jason is the man that painted my house"

New one: where. What do you think?

Over to you

Do exercise A, B and C on your worksheet. Work quietly. 

If you have any questions, raise your hand.

When you're done, wait quietly until we continue and don't distract people who are still busy. 

Now for something new

Relative clauses...

Defining and non-defining clauses?

What is all that?

defining and non-defining clauses

Defining relative clause: 

tells you exactly which noun we're talking about

without it, things wouldn't be clear

non-defining clause:

gives extra information

not necessary to understand the sentence

Over to you

Do exercise D. If you're unsure about the right answer you can quietly discuss with your neighbour

Over to you

Fill in exercise E on your own, I want to see how much you know. 

Get to work

Start looking for articles you could discuss in your task. Try to find at least 2 you might be interested in. 

I'll walk around in case you have any questions or need help. 

For next week

Find at least 2 articles you might want to talk about in your task

Do test your words 2

Bye!

see you next week!