Adjective Clauses

ESL Level 6 Week 4: Class 3

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• Writing assignment

• Adjective clauses grammar

Unit 14 Introduction to Adjective Clauses

What Type Are You?

• Complete the vocabulary and comprehension section

• In your group, describe a person you have met who fits closely into one of the personality categories.

• Write a sentence about them that begins:

– He is the type of person who

– She is the type of person who

Grammar

• Look at the two placements of adjective clauses

• You either have:

– Main clause + adjective clause

– Or

– Main clause + adjective clause + Main clause continued

– What is a relative pronoun?

– Relative (related) + pronoun (I, you, she, etc): connects a clause or phrase to a noun or pronoun.

– Who, whom, which, whose, where, when, that

A clause is a group of words with at least one subject and one verb.

Independent clause or Dependent clause

Ex. The house is in the suburbs (independent)

Ex. that we bought (dependent)

Adjective clauses are dependent and modify a noun or pronoun in a main clause.

Look back at your sentence about someone you know. What is the dependent clause?

Grammar• GRAMMAR CHARTS (page 232)

• In your groups, read your assigned chart and the examples (1, 2, 3, 4). Then find more examples of the structure in a magazine article. Write them on your giant post it.

– Group one: adjective clauses after the main clause (see grammar note 1)

– Group two: adjective clauses inside the main clause (see grammar note 1)

– Group three: Find adjective clauses that refer to subjects (people or things)

– Group four: Find adjective clauses that refer to objects (people or things)

– Group five: Find clauses that refer to possession

– Group six: Find clauses that modifies a noun of place or time

• Choose a writer and a presenter to share your findings with the class

Complete Exercise 1A

Writing exercise in Steps• Look at the personality types on page 238

• Step 1: Which type are you like the most? Why? 10 min

• Step 2: Brainstorm or write ideas about step one. Use adjectives for yourself and think of examples 15 min

• Step 3: Organize your ideas. What is the main idea? What supports that idea? 15 min

– I. Main Idea sentence

– A. supporting idea sentence

– B. personal example sentence

– C. personal example sentence

– D. Closing statement

• Step 4: Write a paragraph about your personality that has at least 5 sentences. 15 min

• Step 5: Revise/Edit: see Checklist

Example• Step 1: Type A personality with a little bit of Type C

• Step 2: drive, hard worker, ambitious, loves change, likes research, and reading data, sensitive, needs a break from people some times

• Step 3

– I. My personality is mostly a type A personality with a little bit of type C as well.

– A. Ambitious and hard working: achieved two bachelor degrees and a masters degree while raising two kids

– B. Loves change: in fact changed careers from nursing to teaching

– C. I need time away from people and I like to use it for research or planning

– Closing statement: The mix of the two personality types has helped my career.

• Step 4

Adjective Clauses Review

• Must contain at least one verb and one subject

• Must be dependent (cannot be alone)

• Modifies a pronoun or noun in the main clause

• The adjective clause can be after or inside the main clause

• Begin with who, whom, which, whose, that, when, or where.

Subjects in adjective clauses

• When the relative pronoun refers to the subject, & it refers to people or things, you can use

– Who (people)

– Which (things)

– That (both)

• The subject and verb should agree

• Ex. Sam is the man that lives next door to me.

– that lives next door to me

– Verb or action: lives- why lives

– Subject that is doing the action: that

Objects in Adjective clauses• When the relative pronoun in the object of the verb in the clause

– Use whom (people)

– Who(people)

– Which (things)

– That (both)

• The verb should agree with the subject , not the object

– The Wangs are the people that Sally knows. (that Sally knows-simple present with subject Sally)

• You can omit the relative pronoun if it is an object, has no commas, AND is not followed by a verb

– Ex. Mrs. Gomez is the woman that I met

– Mrs. Gomez is the woman I met

– Ex Mrs. Gomez is the woman who rides her bike. (you cannot take out whorides her bike)

Whose (Possession)

• Whose replaces his/her/its/their + noun

• Not the same as who’s (who has or who is-ex. Who’s hungry? Versus Whose sandwich is this?)

• You cannot remove the pronoun

• Ex. A long time ago there lived a slave whose name was Aesop.

Identifying and Nonidentifying

• Essential and nonessential information

– Ex. People who love change are classified as type A personalities.

– Ex. Jane, who is a type B personality, is in the school play.

• Remember, you can take out the relative pronoun if it is in an indentifying clause, no commas, AND does not have a verb immediately after it.

– People who love change are classified as type A personalities.

– Who love change is essential, no commas BUT who is followed by LOVE (a verb)

– The people that I work with are not very fun.

– That I work with is essential, no commas, and that is followed by a noun

– The people I work with are not very fun.

Kahoot quiz

Exercise 1A, B & 2

Adjective clauses

Relative pronouns where and when

•Where to modify nouns of place

•If you use which or that, you need

a preposition like in, at or for

•Ex. This is the building that she works

in

•Only use where if you can write the

location with the word there

•Ex. “where I was born” I was born

there

•When to modify nouns of time

•You can use when and that

Pronunciation Notes

• Listening to pauses pg 236

• Listen to the difference between non identifying clauses and identifying clauses.

• Read Exercise 1B out loud with a partner. Use pauses when indicated.

• Let’s do exercise 5

Exercise 6 Editing

• Find eleven mistakes with adjective clauses in your group

• Choose one person in your group to add 1-2 corrections to the projected sheet

Break

• Edit writing

– Look at your paragraphs using the peer edit worksheet

– Both you and your partner will look for errors

– Read the paragraph out loud

– Questions to ask:

– Do the verb tenses agree?

– Do nouns have an article when needed? Ex. The United States, a person

Final Draft

• Idea

• Brainstorm

• Organize

• Draft

• Edit

• Revise

• Publish

– After making all of your corrections and revisions, rewrite your paragraph on the sheet provided.

Adjective clauses Exercise 4

• With a partner, read the spoken and written report by an attorney.

– Spoken is less formal. Which relative pronouns are less formal?

– Which pronouns can you take out?

– Is the relative pronoun the subject (doing the action) or the object (that is receiving the action)

– For the written part, write the relative pronoun and then determine the rest of the clause

– Ex. 7. (who be in trouble)

– Who refers to a man

– Has been (because it was more than one offense in the past until some point)

– In trouble

– Who has been in toruble

• Each person should real the spoken report out loud, pausing for commas.

Exercise 5: more listening to pauses

• Listen for the pauses and place the commas IF needed

• Label them Identifying or Non-identifying

• Choose a writer different from last time to add commas and label for the class.

Exercise 8 (25 min)

• Look at the picture on page 242

• What are the people doing? What kinds of personalities do you think they have?

• Choose a writer and a presenter.

• Write their names on the large post it.

• The group will create sentences about the people in the picture with adjective clauses.

• The writer will write the sentences.

• When the time is up, the presenter will share them with the class. Wjocame up with the most?

Exercise 9: Personality type Survey

• Walk around the room and ask people from another table, what personality type are you? Why?

• Find someone from each personality type (if they are a mix, ask them which is more DOMINANT).

• Write the name of the person in the column for name next to their personality type.

– Example:

• Write down the reasons/examples they gave you

Personality type name Reason

Type A Lisa This is the type of

person who likes

change. This person

has changed careers.

Exercise 9: Guess Who?

• Part B

• Back in your group, read your sentences to the group out loud. You can add other information you know about the person.

• Your group will try to Guess Who it is.

Halloween

• Ideas?

– Potluck-a meal or party where each guest brings items for the meal (drinks, food, napkins, cups).

– Costumes

– Halloween themed activities at stations with the other level 6 class.

Jack o’ lantern