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HIGUITA MUÑOZ JHAN CARLOSWelcome
Valeria!
Jhan Carlos Higuita
CONTENTS OF THIS LESSON
Here’s what you’ll find in this Enlgish Lesson :
1. Introduction to the course.
2. Each other presentation.
3. Time’s trunk written activity.
4. Warming up.
5. First topic: clauses.
6. Dependent and independent clauses.
7. Relative pronouns.
8. That, which, who, whom, whose.
9. Relative clauses.
10. Defining clauses and non-defining clauses.
11. Closing activity.
12. Practical exercises.
Introduction to the course
English Cooperative Active
skills. approach learning.
Improving the The teacher as a Step-by-step
skills with a learner. methodology.
communicative
aim.
Participants’ presentation
C1 English course
level
01 02 03
Teacher
Student
Jhan Carlos Higuita Muñoz
Valeria Gomez Cifuentes
jhanhiguita@gmail.com
johanac26@gmail.com
3117753827
Time’s trunk
written activity.
You are going to write down on a paper
what weaknesses do you have
regarding the English language. Then
after I save the letter you are going to
destroy it. We will discuss about it by
the end of the course.
Warming
Up
Section
What’s the word?
FIRST TOPIC: CLAUSES
Definition
Group of words
which contains at Independent
least a subject and
a verb. It does not make sense
on its own. it needs
Dependent other information to
It makes sense complete an idea.
on its own as a
sentence.
Independent clauses
Complete idea
1. You gave me a present.
2. I prepared a speech.
3. He will study medicine.
Make sense
Dependent clauses
Subordinating
1. Because it was my birthday. conjunctions
2. Before the meeting,
3. After he finishes the school.
It does not
make sense on its own
Did you know? It makes sense
1. You gave me a present because it was my
birthday.
2. Before the meeting, I prepared
a speech.
3. He will study medicine after he finishes the
school. It refers to a
complete idea
Among the subordinating
conjunctions
Let’s
Practice
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY
01 By the time he gets
home, I will cook my
I was a little bit tipsy. I
also was with a couple
03
special plate. of friends.
02 I broke my right leg
because I fall from my
They eat at home only
if they are so tired.
04
bike.
ASSIGNMENT
Let’s create your own
examples. Write six
sentences in which
you include
dependent and
__ __ __ clauses.
independent __ __
Relative pronouns
Definition that Which
A relative pronoun is used to We use it to replace We use it only to
replace an object or a person objects and people. replace objects.
that is already mention.
Who Whom Whose
We use it only to It is used to replace It can be used with
replace people. people. both objects and
people.
1
This is the place
that I mentioned
before.
Titanic was the
movie that won
so many awards.
2
1
The house, which I
would like to live in, is
very expensive.
The job which I
applied for
requires so many
hours.
2
1
I have never met anyone
who likes to watch blind
auditions as much as I
do.
My cousin, who at this
moment is a marine, is
thinking about moving
in together.
2
1
Valeria whom I
began to teach
English is a
clever woman
Alex, whom I met
on the internet, is
an European girl.
2
1
I have a classmate
whose parents were
on a movie.
Joe Biden, whose late
son was also a
politician, is the new
president of the
United States.
2
What a relative clause is?
A relative clause uses the relative pronouns to modify or provide more
information about the main subject of a clause.
Defining relative 01 02 Non- defining relative
clause clause
Defining relative clause
01 This relative clauses define
and help us to identify the
My student did the
homework that I asked
Ex
subject we are talking for.
about.
Ex She has not find any
man the man who
The girl whom I saw
looks so familiar to
Ex
teaches her about me.
love.
Non-defining relative clause
02
This relative clauses provide extra
information about the subject/object
of the clause without modifying the
meaning of it.
My student, who is the
best of the class, did
Ex
the homework that I
asked for.
Ex This new book, which I
have been looking for
The girl, whom I saw at
the mall, looks so
Ex
so much time, has an familiar to me.
incredible cover.
Relative pronouns review
People Objects
That X X
Which X
Who X
Whom X
Whose X X
EXERCISES
01 02
Practice Practice
Re-write the Choose the correct
sentences in order to answer about who,
practice. whom, and whose.
ASSIGNMENT
You are going to
prepare a
three-minutes long
speech in which you
use relative clauses.
__ __ __ __ __
THANKS!
Do you have any questions?
jhanhiguita@gmail.com
+57 311 775 3827
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