Loop 2
Week 7
Our session
agreements
CAMERAS ON!
We want to get to know you
MICS OFF
To avoid interference. Turn on when you
want to participate.
SPEAK
The more you talk, the more you practice
PARTICIPATE
Even if you are not sure, take the chance
Our goals for this week are:
Describing processes, cause and
effect. Feedback: Criticizing,
recommending, data quality
assurance.
Let’s talk a little bit about...
● Which is the worst feedback you’ve
ever received?
● What is your strategy to give
feedback to your team? How do
you plan it?
● Which is the best feedback you’ve
ever received? Why do you think it
was good?
Participle
Clauses
Topic of the day.
💡 Grammar Reminder
Participle clauses enable us to give 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, having walked, etc.).
We can use participle clauses when the participle and the verb in the main clause have the same subject. For example,
Waiting for Ellie, I made some tea. (While I was waiting for Ellie, I made some tea.)
Blown by the wind, the hat fell into the ocean.
Having read the newspaper, he stood up and left the house.
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.
💡 Grammar Reminder
Present participle clauses Past participle clauses
Here are some common ways to use present participle Here are some common ways to use past participle clauses.
clauses. Note that present participles have a similar meaning Note that past participles normally have a passive meaning.
to active verbs.
● With a similar meaning to an if condition
● To give the result of an action Used in this way, participles can make your writing
The bomb exploded, destroying the building. more concise. (If you use participles in this way, … )
● To give the reason for an action ● To give the reason for an action
Knowing she loved reading, Richard bought her a Worried by the news, she called the hospital.
book. ● To add information about the subject of the main clause
● To talk about an action that happened at the same Filled with pride, he walked towards the stage.
time as another action
Standing in the queue, I realised I didn't have any
money.
● To add information about the subject of the main
clause
Starting in the new year, the new policy bans cars in
the city centre.
💡 Grammar Reminder
Perfect participle clauses Participle clauses after conjunctions and
prepositions
Perfect participle clauses show that the action they describe was
finished before the action in the main clause. Perfect participles
It is also common for participle clauses, especially with -ing, to follow
can be structured to make an active or passive meaning.
conjunctions and prepositions such as before, after, instead of, on,
since, when, while and in spite of.
● Having got dressed, he slowly went downstairs.
● Having finished their training, they will be fully
● Before cooking, you should wash your hands.
qualified doctors.
● Instead of complaining about it, they should try
● Having been made redundant, she started
doing something positive.
looking for a new job.
● On arriving at the hotel, he went to get changed.
● While packing her things, she thought about the
last two years.
● In spite of having read the instructions twice, I
still couldn’t understand how to use it.
Exercise time
● We broke the computer (the computer belongs to my father)
● The man is in the garden (the man is wearing a blue jumper)
● We found a doctor (the doctor works at a hospital in Madrid)
● People will not be allowed to enter (people have arrived late)
● Don't wake the baby (the baby is sleeping in the next room)
● Who is that boy (that boy is walking in the forest)?
● The man is over there (the man wants coffee)
● Those books were mine (those books had been lying on the table)
● Julia is on the train (the train is arriving at Platform 3)
● They called a lawyer (the lawyer lived nearby)
10’
Answers:
1. They called a lawyer living nearby. 2. We broke the computer belonging to my
father. 3. The man wearing a blue jumper is in the garden. 4. We found a doctor
working at a hospital in Madrid). 5. People arriving late will not be allowed to enter.
6. Don’t wake the baby sleeping in the next room. 7. Who is that boy walking in the
forest? 8. The man wanting coffee is over there. 9. Those books lying on the table
were mine. 10. Julia is on the train arriving at Platform 3.
Exercise time
Choose some of the following topics and try to use participle
clauses:
● Feedback to a partner
● Feedback to one of the features in the hub
● Feedback about your last interview
15’
Feedback time!
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