Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns

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1 UNIT 69 Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns Illustration Pre-reading Questions Have students look at the illustration. Ask these questions: Where are these people? (At a party/a business meeting/a conference.) Describe the man who is talking. (He has a pony tail. He is wearing heartshaped glasses and a necklace. He s also wearing a black jacket and white pants.) What is unusual about one of the women? (She looks just like the man. She also has a ponytail, heart-shaped glasses, and a necklace. And she s wearing a black jacket and white pants.) Have students read the cartoon and do the Check Point. Check their answers. Grammar Point Focus Have students look at the words in the speech bubble. Ask: Which is the adjective clause? (Who has changed my life.) Which word is the relative pronoun? (Who.) Which word does who refer to? (Woman.) Charts Notes Exercises Background Notes for Exercise 1 Margaret Mead ( ) was an American anthropologist who studied how culture influenced personality. Her best-known book is Coming of Age in Samoa. Optional Communication Activity Put these words on the board: friend/acquaintance friend/best friend friend/colleague Unit

2 Have students work in groups to discuss the differences between the terms on the board. Then have the groups report back to the class. A: A friend is someone you know very well. An acquaintance is someone you know, but not as well as a friend. etc. Optional Writing Activity Ask students to write a paragraph about friendship using one of the following quotations. What does the quotation mean? Do they agree with the quotation? The best mirror is an old friend. George Herbert (English poet and novelist, ) Friendship is a plant which we must often water. German proverb Chance makes our relatives, but choice makes our friends. Jacques Delille (French poet, ) A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. writer, ) A writer once said that the best mirror is an old friend. This means that a friend who knows you well Grammar Express Teacher s Manual

3 UNIT 70 Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns or When and Where Illustration Background Notes The photograph is of Cracow (also spelled Krakow), a city in south-central Poland. Cracow has a population of over 751,000 people. It is a cultural center with many historic buildings (as seen in the photograph) and museums. Pre-reading Questions Have students look at the illustration. Ask these questions: What is this? (A postcard/a letter and a photograph.) Where do you think this city is? (In Europe/Poland.) What is circled in the photograph? (Tables with umbrellas/a café.) Why do you think it is circled? (The writer of the postcard was there.) Have students read the postcard and do the Check Point. Check their answers. Grammar Point Focus Have students look at the postcard. Ask: How many adjective clauses are there? (Two.) What are they? (Where I spend all my time and that I made yesterday.) What does the first adjective clause describe? (The café.) What does the second adjective clause describe? (The new friend.) Charts Notes Exercises Optional Communication Activity Have students bring in some family photographs to share with their classmates. They can be recent photographs or ones taken some time ago. Have students work in small groups. They should explain the people and places in their photographs. Unit

4 A: This is the street where we lived before we moved here. B: Is that the house you grew up in? etc. Optional Writing Activity Ask students to write about a place they remember from their childhood. Tell them to use adjective clauses to help explain where things were and why they were important. Kochel am See is the small town in southern Germany where I grew up. Our house was near the lake where we went swimming in the summer Grammar Express Teacher s Manual

5 UNIT 71 Adjective Clauses: Identifying and Non-Identifying Illustration Pre-reading Questions Have students look at the cartoon. Ask these questions: What was the woman doing? (Working at/using her computer.) What is happening to her computer? (A monster is coming out of the monitor.) How does the woman look? (Shocked/Frightened.) Have students read the cartoon and do the Check Point. Check their answers. Grammar Point Focus Have students look at the speech bubble text. Ask: Which is the adjective clause? (He told me not to open.) Is there a relative pronoun in the clause? (No.) Which relative pronoun could you use to introduce this adjective clause? (That/Which.) Charts Notes Exercises Optional Communication Activity Have a class discussion about technophobia (see Exercise 2 on page 310). Have any of your students experienced it? Do they know anyone who else who has experienced it? Ask for details. EXAMPLES: A: My cousin is afraid to use the new computer his boss just bought. He was used to the one he had been using for two years. B: My company switched from IBM to Apple computers. I wanted to stay with the one I was familiar with. Unit

6 Optional Writing Activity Ask students to write a paragraph about an electronic device that they use, for example, a computer, cell phone, DVD player, VCR, or an electronic organizer. When did they first get it? How did they like it at first? How do they like it now? The VCR I now own was a gift from my parents. I loved it right away. It had a lot of features that my older one didn t have Grammar Express Teacher s Manual