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Participle clauses ‘Aims To review and practise participle clauses Time 10 minutes Materials | handout foreach student * Give each student a copy ofthe handout and ask them to do task A. Check answers as a clas. whostars staring who-ves born who creating thats putting on ‘whictrhas been performed wheplaved playing vhs drawn whehadtbeen hired Ask students to do task 8. Check answers asa class which was released which (had) belonged ‘whe are standing which were composed who is best known Which has been held who is worth | which was painted, who is holding Divide the class into pairs and allow them time to complete task C. Encourage them to take @ guess at the ones they donit know. Check answers asa class 1 The album was One ofthe Boys $ She was born in the USA. 2 Queen Elizabeth Il (not 6 since 1929 Princess Diana) 7 JK Rowling 3 Themen are boxing 8 Thewoman sholding 4 They were composed by Vivaldi nothing, ‘+ To increase motivation task C could be done asa competition, Set a time limit in which pairs must correct, ‘as many of the mistakes as they can. Then tell them to exchange handouts with another pai. Check the answers 2s. class and tell them to award a point for every correct answer. The pair with the most points are the winners. A Rewrite the sentences, replacing the relative clauses with participle clauses. 1 The actor who stars in the film isn’t very well-known. Shakespeare, who was born in 1564, is one of Britain’s most famous playwrights. Do you know the sculptor who's creating the piece? ve never heard of the drama company that’s putting on the musical. The Mousetrap, which has been performed over 23,000 times, opened in 1952. The actor who played the role of Romeo kept forgetting his lines. 7 The portrait of Alice, which was drawn by her niece, looks nothing like her. 8 The photographer who had been hired for the wedding arrived late, B Rewrite the underlined participle clauses as full-length relative clauses. The name of the first album released by Katy Perry in 2008 was Teenage dream. ‘At her wedding in 2011, Kate Middleton wore a tiara belonging to Princess Diana. 1m LiWe’’s Boxing, the men standing on the skyscraper are packing boxes. The Four Seasons are violin concertos composed by Beethoven. ‘Stephenie Meyer, best known as author of the Twilight novels, was born in Canada. The Academy Awards ceremony, held every year since 1949, attracts a huge TV audience, KJ Rowling, worth over £500 million, is famous for writing the Harry Potter books. ‘Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, shows a woman holding a baby. C Workin pairs. in each sentence in B there is a mistake in the information given. How many can you find and correct? 12C Book club eupwor Sle sare nformaten aout tree bokeh students Fold each book in half Procedure ~ Divide the students into ABC groups. Tell them to imagine that their group isa book chib who needs to decide wich book they are going to read next. Give out folded copies ofthe three “books' to each group with the front covers face up. Tell the students not to look at the ‘back ofthe books yet. Students focus on the book titles and pictures and discuss what kind of book they think each one is (murder mystery, romance, etc). After a short feedback stage withthe whole clas, get the students in each group to choose and take one of the books. ~ Reorganize the class so that students with the same books ‘work together in AA, BB, CC groups. Get them to read the back of the book, decide what genre the book is, and choose the correct -ing or -ed words to complete the text. Monitor to check that students have the correct answers Give the students a few minutes to practise summarizing ‘what their book is about (genre, setting, characters, plot) ‘Monitor and help where necessary. ~ Put the students back into their original book clubs, ABC. Each student presents their book to the other members of their cub, The students discuss which ofthe books they ‘would most like to read, and wity. The group should come up with an order of preference, where 1is the most appealing ‘book, and 3 is the least appealing. At the feedback stage, get the groups to compare what order they ranked the books in and why. Book club A ! Tim Burrows is a young student worked / working on an archaeological dig in Guatemala and looked / looking forward to returning home to his family in ireland. When he finds a small cup carved / carving with strange images, he faces a choice - and {he makes a decision that changes his life ! forever, took / taking him on an adventure | across time and space. | An action-packed story, ‘Maya’ is told / telling ! with energy and wit. FO —> B International bestseller: over 35 million copies sold | seling world-wide “The most romantic book written / writing this ‘ year" The Star { Switzerland, 1950. A young woman walks in the Hoothills of the Alps, dreamed / dreaming of love lost. Will this journey take her to true romance, or tragedy? ‘All These Ways’ is a book of love and beauty, { combined / combining fine storytelling with passionate descriptions of the natural world, Translated | Translating from the German by Sylvia Meredith. c It's 2220. In a world changed / changing by global ! warming, scientists are making amazing discoveries { about the human body. { Fuad Lee is a doctor worked / working in a secret ! laboratory built / building under the sea. He thinks i he has found a way to stop people growing old. } But will he be killed by governments tried / trying to end his work before he can share it with the : world? } Based / Basing on scientific theories about the human body, ‘Pulse’ is a fascinating new work. FO. —> Fo. —> @ Ww Toputastory inorder. and retellit using Partciple causes Language Present participles Em Wg and Speatng Lesson lnk Use after Unit 1 $8 p07 Materials (One copy ofthe worksheet cutin half per ‘group of four students ‘Answers Th After decitng to go away fora few weeks, Emma and Raoul looked on holiday webs 2 While searching he site they founda cheap fight to Sydwy via Canada, 3b By fing via Canada they would save alot of money, 4], Nothaving been to Syney before, they decided to bookit. 5 e Five days after buying ther tickets, ‘they were on the plane. 6 g After landing in Halifax, Canada, they \went to board the next plane While checking in for their fight they noticed that the plane was very sal 8 d_Notthinking the pane was big enough to fy to Australia they checked the destination ~it was Sydney 9 F After fying for forty-five minutes, the pot announced they were landing in Syne. 101 Onlooking out ofthe window, they realized ther mistake, a. Not ealing there were two Sydneys they'd booked holiday in Syne, Nora Scotia! 12k. Nothavinga hope of reaching Syhey, ‘Australia the coupe had to stay eee sissy Pre-activity (5 minutes) ‘+ Ask students if they have ever booked a holiday or a flight on the Internet. Ask them what the advantages are of booking a flight on the Internet. Is it easy to do? Is it easy to make a mistake? ‘+ Write the following sentences on the board: I saw a flight. I was searching a travel website. I booked the flight on the Internet so I got a 20% discount. Ask students to rewrite them using present participles. (While searching a travel website, I saw a flight. By booking the flight on the Internet, I got a 20% discount. ) Check the answers with the class. Procedure (25 minutes) ‘© Explain that students are going to rewrite some sentences ftom a true story using present participles. * Divide students into an even number of pairs: A and B. (If you have an odd numbers of pairs, make two groups of three.) Give Pairs A worksheet A, and Pairs B worksheet B. ‘+ Explain that the sentences of the story are not in order and that ‘each pair has only half of the story at the moment. Give pairs time to rewrite the sentences using present participles. Go around helping and correcting as necessary. ‘+ When students have finished, make groups of four with a Pair A and a Pair B. Ask students to check each other's sentences and put the story in order. Go around checking and helping as necessary. ‘+ Ask groups to read the ordered story together and decide where using the participle phrase sentences helps the story, making it sound more natural. In the other places, ask students to replace the participles with a relative or conjunction, e.g. When they looked out of the window, they realized their mistake. Encourage them to read the story aloud to hear the different effects of the various choice of structures. Go around helping as necessary. + Have a class feedback session. Ask students how easy a mistake this was to make, Could they imagine making the same mistake? Extension (10 minutes) + Ask students how the participles are used in each sentence. Write these alternatives on the board for them to match with the participles in the story: used when two events happen at the same time (c,1), used to introduce a reason (a, d, jk), used to introduce a result (b, i), used when one event happens after another (e, fg, h). ‘They hadn't realized there were two Sydneys. Theyid booked a holiday in Sydney, Nova Scotia! Not. IF they flew via Canada, they would save a lot of money. gy... They checked in for their fight and noticed thatthe plane was very small. While. They thought the plane wasnt big enough to fly to Australia so they checked the destination ~ it was Sydney. Not . They were on the plane five days after they had bought their tickets. Five days after... Forty-five minutes into the ight, the pilot announced ‘they were landing in Sydney. After They landed in Halifax, Canada. They went to board the next plane. After. Emma and Raoul decided to go away for a few weeks. They looked on a holiday website. After... They looked out of the window and realized their mistake. On They hadn't been to Sydney before so they decided to book it. Not... They didn't have a hope of reaching Sydney, Australia, so the couple had to stay. Not... They searched the website and found a cheap fight to Sydney via Canada. While.

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