Relative clauses.

Violence around the world

Introduction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKfxegI4ipo

Snapshot:
Kevin Kaneta, who has been bullied since the third grade, was born with cerebral palsy,
a neurological disorder that affects body movement and muscle coordination. During an
interview with a Denver, Colo. television station, he shared his experience as a bullying
target since the third grade, and each year, it gets worse.

Kevin who said “They go after me because they see me as a vulnerable target” walks
slower than most children and drags his feet because of his disability. Tyleen Wilson,
who is his mother, fears for his safety each day at school. “I worry if he’ll come home
today,” said Wilson. “What if they really hurt him?”

Wilson stated she’s notified school administrators, that did nothing, as well as the
Colorado media, that her son’s classmates have tripped and pinned him down and force
fed dog food into his mouth. In late December 2010, Wilson noticed a Facebook picture,
in which Kevin has his sweatshirt tied tightly around his face, that enraged her.

“I thought it was a joke,” she said. “I prodded Kevin to tell me about the picture.” Kevin’s
classmates had tied his sweatshirt tightly around his face and forced him to walk around
the playground, barely able to see through the small opening. After taunting and
teasing, the kids ripped the sweatshirt off, cutting his eyelids.

Another picture that showed Kevin against the playground fence trying to break free
with both arms of the sweatshirt tied to the fence post went viral. “They just watched me
struggle to get out,” said Kevin. “They put it on Facebook and now everyone knows it.”

Discuss:
In your opinion, which are the most harmful forms of violence?
Have you ever been subjected to bullying?
Vocabulary:

Words for killing: bloodshed, execution, homicide, massacre, murder, slaughter,

genocide, extermination (also used for “getting rid” of unwanted insects.

Violence that may not cause death: atrocity, barbarity, atrocious, barbarous, brutal,
cruel, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, horrifying, terrible or terrifying.

Police or official violence: assail, assault, or attack, the people doing the violence are
assailants or attackers and the person being attacked is a victim. (Adjectives: assailed,
assaulted, attacked, victimized.)

Other terms; to maim, to rape, to threat, terrorism, weapons, guns, knives, bombs.

Activity: look up the meaning of the terms that you don’t understand.

Grammar:

Relative pronouns:
Relative P Uses Examples
That Used for things, people and animals. WHO stated bullying, that
affects everybody, as a mortal
form of violence worldwide.
Who Used only for people. I have just seen the man who
was caught last month for
rapping a girl completely free.
Whose Used to show possession. The girl, whose eye was swollen
yesterday, lives in my
neighborhood.
Which Used for things and animals. The dog, which my sister’s just
adopted, seems to have been
abused.

Relative clauses:
these are clauses used to describe a noun in a similar way that adjectives do. There are
two types of relative clauses: defining and non-defining.

- Defining relative clauses:

We use defining relative clauses to give essential information about someone or
something – information that we need in order to understand what or who is being
referred to. A defining relative clause usually comes immediately after the noun it
describes.

The officer that was accused for raising a stick against outstretched hands will be fired
soon.

- Non-defining relative clauses

We use non-defining relative clauses to give extra information about the person or thing.
It is not necessary information. We don’t need it to understand who or what is being
referred to.

The word ‘exterminates’, which comes from ‘terminate’, means to end something.

Notes:

Defining or non-defining relative clauses?

Sometimes defining and non-defining relative clauses can look very similar but have
different meanings.
Compare
non-defining defining

His brother, who works at the police

His brother who works at the police
department, is a friend of mine.
department is a friend of mine.
He has only one brother, and that
He has more than one brother. The one I’m
brother works at the Police
talking about works at the Police Department
Department.

Practice:
Decide whether the following clauses are defining or non-defining, write the commas to
separate when you find non-defining clauses:

- Peter who was abused in his childhood became an important businessman.

- The Terrorists that attacked The Twin Towers were never caught.
- The massacre which started in London has reached others cities, the terrorist
group is alarming all Europe.
- A man whose child was bullied at school have up the young aggressors who
are now formally accused for bullying.
- The World Health Organization which is abbreviated WHO had rated the World
Violence as harmful to the global development.

Activities:

Write 3 sentences using some of the given words in the vocabulary considering the
usage of relative pronouns for including relative clauses

Enter to this link, and complete the crossword. Mind how “Relative Clauses” are used to
explain the meaning of words.
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/29844144/ingl%c3%a9s/explaining-words
Complete the Sentences on the following quiz using the appropriate “Relative Clause”
https://wordwall.net/es/resource/25625280/relative-clauses