Relative Clauses

Unit 2A Lesson 1

CPIN, 2017-5101, 5102, 5103, 5105

MD. María Eugenia Claudia Chiñas Moreno
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Knowledge and Objective

Objective: Discussing a favorite TV series

Knowledge: Relative Clauses

TV programs
 Listening 1
Listen to the conversation between Seth and amy and answer the
questions.
Answer the questions

1. What does Seth want to do?

______________________________________________.

2. What is Amy doing?

______________________________________________.

3. What’s the name of the program Amy wants to watch?

______________________________________________.
 Listening 2
Listen to the second part of the conversation. Then, match the sentence
halves.
 Match the sentence halves
1. Lucy is the girl A. that Christian gave her.

2. Bradley is the man B. that Lucy watches every night.

C. who fell in love with Lucy and gave

3. It is the bracelet
her the bracelet.

4. Bradley is the man D. who was going to marry Bradley.

5. Green Oaks is the soap opera E. who went into a comma.

6. Christian is the man F. who Lucy was going to marry with.

TV Programs

Answer the Quiz:

“Types of TV Programs”

in your EDMODO GROUP.

Language Work

Relative Clauses
What are they?

What do we use them for? Function

What’s the structure? Form

Video
A. Who or THAT for people
 Example:

Last week we had a party and a lot of people came.

Everybody enjoyed it.
Everybody who came to the party enjoyed it.

A clause is a part of a sentence. A relative clause tells us which (or what kind of) person
or thing the speaker means.
 We use WHO in a relative clause to talk
about people (not things).

1. The woman who lives next door to me is a doctor.

2. I don’t like people who complain all the time.
3. An architect is someone who designs buildings.
 You can also use that but not which:

The woman that lives next door to me is a

doctor.
(not the woman which)
B. THAT or WHICH for
things.
When we talk about things, we use that or
which (not who):
1. I don’t like stories that/which have unhappy endings.
2. Grace works for a company that /which makes
furniture.
3. The machine that / which broke down is working
again now.
In these examples that is more usual than which.
C. WHO/THAT/WHICH and
he/she/they/it
 Compare:
A man lived next door to me, but he moved out recently.

The man who lived next door to me moved out recently.

I can’t find the keys. They were on the table.

I can’t find the keys that were on the table.

D. WHAT/THAT/WHICH as
subject
Sometimes, who or that is the subject

The woman who / that lives next door to me is a doctor.

Who/That (=the woman) is the subject.

You cannot say:

The woman ____ lives next door is a doctor.

You need who or that.

Sometimes, which or that is the subject.

Where are the keys that / which were on the table?

That / Which (=the keys) is the subject.

You cannot say:

Where are the keys ____ were on the table?

You need that or which.

E. WHO/THAT/WHICH as
object
The woman who / that I met was a doctor.

Who/That (=the woman) is the object.

I is the subject (I met the woman).

Did you find the keys that / which you lost?

That / Which (=the keys) is the object.

You is the subject (you lost the keys).

 Practice the structure

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