Unit Four

• Pronombres relativos

• 4.2 Conectores: Expresiones de Transición

• 4.3 Elaboración de resúmenes

What Is a Relative Pronoun and How Does It Work?

A relative pronoun is a word that introduces a dependent (or relative) clause and connects
it to an independent clause. A clause beginning with a relative pronoun is poised to
answer questions such as Which one? How many? or What kind? Who, whom, what, which,
and that are all relative pronouns.
Relative clauses are also sometimes referred to as adjective clauses, because they identify
or give us additional information about the subject of the independent clause they relate to.
Like adjectives, these clauses in some way describe that subject. Relative pronouns, like
conjunctions, are words that join clauses—in this case, a relative clause to its main clause.
The type of relative pronoun used depends on what kind of noun is being described.
Taken from: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/relative-pronouns

EXERCISES
A. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES. Use the relative pronouns in
parentheses (2,5pts)
• I talked to the girl whose car had broken down in front of the shop. (which- whose- who)

• Mr. Richards, who is a taxi driver, lives on the corner. (which- whose- who)

• I live in a house in Norwich, which is in East Anglia. (which- whose- who)

 • This is the girl who comes from Spain. (which- whose- who)

• That's Peter, the boy whose has just arrived at the airport. (which- whose- who)

• Thank you very much for your e-mail, whose was very interesting. (which- whose- who)

• The man, who father is a professor, forgot his umbrella. (which- whose- who)

• The children which shouted in the street are not from our school. (which- whose- who)

• The car, which driver is a young man, is from Ireland. (which- whose- who)

• What did you do with the money whose your mother lent you? (which- whose- who)

B. Write sentences to describe people in box A using the information in box

B.
A B
a thief takes photographs
a dentist is very intelligent
a fool designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works.
a butcher sells meat
a musician plays a musical instrument
a genius is ill in hospital
a patient doesn’t tell the truth
a photographer steal things
a liar looks after your teeth
An engineer is very stupid

• A thief is a person who steals things.

• A butcher is a person who sells meat

• A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument

• A patient who is ill in hospital

• A photographer whose takes photographs

• A dentist whish looks after your teeth

• A fool which is very stupid

• A genius which is very intelligent

• A liar which doesn’t tell the truth

• An engineer who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public

works.
C. Join the sentences to write a longer one. (1,25 pts)
1) A man phoned. He didn’t say his name. The man who phoned didn’t say his name.
2) A woman opened the door. She was wearing a yellow dress. A woman who She was
wearing a yellow dress.
3) Some people live next door to us. They are very nice. Some people live next door to us.
who They are very nice
4) A policeman stopped our car. He wasn’t very friendly. The policeman who stopped us
was not friendly
5) A boy broke the window. He ran away. The boy who broke the window he escaped

D. Write who/that/which in the blanks (1,25)

Example: I met a woman who can speak six languages.
1) What’s the name of the man who lives next door?
2) What’s the name of the river that goes through the town?
3) Everybody that went to the party enjoyed it very much.
4) Do you know anybody that wants to buy a car?
5) Where is the picture that was on the wall?

TRANSITION WORDS
EXERCISES
E. Connect the two sentences using one of the conjunctions in the box! Watch
out, sometimes more than one solution is possible! (2 pts)

Although despite in spite of unless however and

so so that until even if
1) The weather was very bad. However, He went out for a walk.
2) It was a difficult task. although She solved it with ease.
3) You can finish all the tasks on time. despite You still have to work overtime.
4) She has to finish her homework. so She can go out afterwards.
5) They forgot to let me know. however, I found out from the papers.
6) They stayed out very late. and The last train had already left.
7) The essay is really quite good. although There are just a few tiny mistakes.
8) You are very intelligent. despite You are lazy

COMPUTERS
Question: What do you already know about Steve Jobs?
Read the article below and then answer the questions.

Do you have an iPad, iPod, iPhone , a smartwatch or a Mac computer? If you don’t, you
probably know someone who has one (or wants one)! Steve Jobs made the company
“Apple “that created these things that are now such an important part of the lives of
millions of people. “Apple“that created these things that are now such an important part of
the lives of millions of people.

He was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California. When he was a boy, he
had a special hobby: he liked to take apart televisions and put them back together again. He
was a very good student in school and even skipped a grade. After he finished grade four,
he went into grade six and in 1972, when he was seventeen, he graduated from high school.
He then began his studies in Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after six
months.
Deciding to quit was not at all easy. It was difficult, but as Jobs later said, “I had no idea
what I wanted to do with my life.” Two years later in 1974, he travelled to India, and while
there he learned about Buddhism.
After Steve Jobs returned to the United States, he found a job as a video game designerat a
company called Atari, and two years after that, in 1976, when he was only twenty-one years
old, he created his own company –Apple Computer – with his friend, Steve Wozniak. Steve
Jobs later got married in 1991 and had four children. Unfortunately, doctors discovered that
he had cancer in 2003 and in 2011 he died at the age of only 56.
• Extract Connectors and transition words

• Translate them

Result

If = si / who= quien / that= ese, esa / and= y / When= cuando / what=

que / with= con /

7th Evaluation: Exercises A / C / D / E= 7 pts

 Reading about computer= 3 pts
• Include important details

(5 Ws= who, what where, when, why)

• Details from the paragraph, story or book using

your own words
Writing a
• Include the title, and author (if it possible)
Summary
• Start with the main idea

• State the author purpose (to persuade, to

inform, to refuse, to clarify…)

• If the paragraph has more than one, extract the

secondary ideas which support de main idea to
write your Summary.

• Use transition words to connect your ideas

(firt, next, secondly, then, last, finally)

• Remember your summary must have a

beginning, middle and end

8th Evaluation:
Before start reading:

Discuss the following questions with your classmates.

1. How many hours do you go online each day? Is it too much?
R= de 4 a 5 horas paso conectado al día.
2. Which do you like more: watching TV or going online? Why?
R= me gusta conectarme más al internet ya que puedo conseguir
muchas cosas de interés.
3. Can you think of more bad things about the Internet?
R= existen muchas cosas malas en el internet, así como tiene su parte
positive tiene muchas más negativas y adictivas que es peor.
Topic: Computers and the Internet
Five Reasons Why the Internet is Bad

Almost everyone agrees that the Internet is a good thing. We use the Internet in many ways.
We can go online and play games, make new friends, and learn things. More than 4 billion
people in the world use the Internet. However, not everything about the Internet is good.
Here are five bad things about the Internet. First, many people use the Internet too much. In
the United States, it is common for people to use the Internet 24 hours each week, or about
3.4 hours each day. In Europe, many people say that the Internet is more important than
watching TV, having a car, or even getting washed. They may not have the time to use their
brains to think. Second, some people use the Internet at work. This makes their boss angry
and fire them. Third, when people use the Internet so much, they may not be healthy
because they don’t get much exercise. Fourth, many people have “friends” on Facebook,
but these may not be real friends. Real friends are people you can see face -to-face. Two or
three real friends are better than 200 Facebook “friends” that you never see. Finally, some
people are criminals. They are bad people and they use the Internet to try to steal your
money

Permission granted to reproduce for classroom use. © www.allthingstopics.com

• Extract the transition words and relatives pronouns used as connector in the paragraph
below. Translate them.

that= ese, esa / we= nosotros / and= y / more= mas/ than= que / However= sin embargo/
here= aqui / First = primero / it= eso / Second= Segundo / this= esta, esto / when=
cuando

Extract the main idea and the secondary ideas from the text

La idea principal es el enfoque que le dan a que el internet no es del todo Bueno ya que
causa problemas cuando se utiliza en exceso

Las ideas secundarias es que muchas personas utilizan internet que hay que tratar de vivir
más la vida en físico en la realidad ya que la tecnología y el internet está consumiendo
mucho tiempo de nuestras vidas

• Write a summary of the text

Casi todo el mundo está de acuerdo en que Internet es algo bueno. Más de 4 mil millones
de personas en el mundo utilizan Internet. Sin embargo, no todo lo relacionado con
Internet es bueno. mucha gente usa demasiado Internet aproximadamente 3.4 horas al
día. algunas personas utilizan Internet en el trabajo. Esto hace que su jefe se enoje y los
despida. muchas personas tienen "amigos" en Facebook, pero es posible que estos no
sean amigos reales.