INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH

II
UNIT#3
ONLY FACTS
Teacher/Facilitator: Licda. Sabrina de Escobar
 Warm-up: Dialogue

AGENDA Practice

Activity 1:Reading
Practice

Activity 2: Independent
and dependent Clauses

Activity 2: Practice
Conversation Practice
If I Were in Your Shoes
READING COMPREHENSION
PRACTICE

Three British
Columbia Festivals:
Reading
Comprehension
LET’S CREATE 1
CLAUSES
A clause is a group
1
What are of words that
clauses? contains both a
subject and a
2 How to write predicate.
clauses
correctly?
LET’S CREATE 2

CLAUSES There are four basic types:

declaratives (statements),
What are interrogatives (questions),
1
clauses? imperatives
(orders/instructions) and
How many exclamatives (used for
types of exclamations).
2
clauses are
there?
INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT CLAUSES
WHAT EXACTLY IS AN INDEPENDENT
CLAUSE?
IS A GROUP OF WORDS WITH A SUBJECT AND A VERB.

IS A GROUP OF WORDS THAT CONTAINS A SUBJECT AND VERB

AND EXPRESSES A COMPLETE THOUGHT

IT IS ONE THAT CAN STAND ALONE AND MAKES COMPLETE

SENSE.
AN INDEPENDENT CLAUSE IS A SENTENCE.
Examples of Independent Clauses
Rose went to the gym.
Jonathan was working at the office.
Judy is designing a banner.
Psychologists often work with patients.
Leonard is reading emails.
Architects shape the roof of a house.
 INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT
CLAUSES
WHAT EXACTLY IS A DEPENDENT CLAUSE?
IS A GROUP OF WORDS THAT CONTAINS A SUBJECT AND VERB
BUT DOES NOT EXPRESS A COMPLETE THOUGHT.

IS A CLAUSE THAT CANNOT STAND ALONE AS A COMPLETE

SENTENCE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT EXPRESS A COMPLETE
THOUGHT.

A DEPENDENT CLAUSE CANNOT BE A SENTENCE

 Examples of dependent Clauses
Rose went to the gym after she finished working.
Jonathan was working at the office when his boss
called him.
Judy is designing a banner that I asked for my store.
Psychologists often work with patients who have
mental illnesses.
Leonard is reading emails seeing what tasks needs
the most attention.
Architects shape the roof of a house when its needed.