GRAMMAR: Relatives

UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR DEL CESAR Clauses

Vocbulary: Famous
Unit 4: who’s your best friend?
Friendship.

TEACHER : ZOLLIANNE SOLANO

UNIT 4: WHO IS YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Grammar: Relatives Clauses
Vocabulary: Describing Friends

GOALS:
• Present and practice the target vocabulary and grammar.
• Give specific information and to discuss.
• Describe people, talk about her personality traits.
GLOSSARY:

WHO- charming - forgetful – generous – impatient - impolite

THAT – insecure - optimistic – outgoing - pessimistic - reserved
WHICH – self – centered - talkative - adventurous - creative -
Organized - WHOSE - serious.
 GRAMMAR: Relatives
UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR DEL CESAR Clauses
Vocbulary: Famous
Unit 4: who’s your best friend?
Friendship.

Practice : Complete the chart with the words in the box. Then more words.

charming - forgetful – generous – impatient -

impolite
– insecure - optimistic – outgoing - pessimistic -
reserved
– self – centered - talkative - adventurous - creative
- organized -
- serious

Positive Negative Neutral

RELATIVES CLAUSES
 GRAMMAR: Relatives
UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR DEL CESAR Clauses
Vocbulary: Famous
Unit 4: who’s your best friend?
Friendship.

We can use a relatives clauses to identify, define or classify a person or thing the relatives clauses

Follow a noun.

• I have a lot of friends Who are interested in music.

• I work in a store which sells books and magazines.

We can begin a relative clauses with the relatives pronouns who, which, or that, we use :

• who for people.

• Which for things.

• That for people or things.

Examples:

The woman who works at my office is very efficient.

Mark’s brother, who is 18, has just started University.

The cat, which is very friendly, is called Tom.

The woman that works at my office is very efficient.

The relatives pronouns Who, Which, and that can function as the subject or object of the relatives
clauses.
 GRAMMAR: Relatives
UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR DEL CESAR Clauses
Vocbulary: Famous
Unit 4: who’s your best friend?
Friendship.

Relatives pronouns as subject Relatives pronoun as object

( noun + subject relatives pronouns + verb) ( noun + object relative pronoun + noun /
pronoun + verb)

I like game that is challenging. I saw a movie that I liked.

I like to be around people who are friendly. Those are the people who she likes.

When the relative clauses, the verb agrees with the noun that
Comes before it . When the relatives pronouns is the object, the
Verb agrees with the subject of the relatives clause.
• Example: I know a lot of people who are outgoing.
We can also begin a relative clauses with the possessives pronouns
Whose. Whose indicate that the noun that follows it belongs to the
Preceding noun.
• Example: These are the people whose party was last week.
We can omit Who, which, and that in object relatives clauses, but we can never omit whose.
• Example: This is the guy they introduce me too.

ACTIVITY IN CLASS.

1.- Choose the correct word to complete the sentence.

a.- He’s the kind of person Who / which everyone gets along with.

b.- That’s the couple who / whose party we went to last week.

c.- the woman that / which lives across the street is charming!.

d.- The stories whose / that he tells are really interesting.

e.-My uncle is someone whose / who generosity is well known.

f.- Good friends are people who / whose we all value.

2.- Write who/that/which in the blanks.

a.- I met a woman ________________ can speak six languages.

b. What’s the name of the man _____________ lives next door?

c. What’s the name of the river _____________ goes through the town?
 GRAMMAR: Relatives
UNIVERSIDAD POPULAR DEL CESAR Clauses
Vocbulary: Famous
Unit 4: who’s your best friend?
Friendship.

d. Everybody _____________ went to the party enjoyed it very much.

e. Do you know anybody _____________ wants to buy a car?

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