Unit 9: Language Focus

Which animal in Vietnam was chosen to be the logo of SEA Games 2003 Buffalo... or: The animal was chosen to be the logo of SEA Games 2003 was buffalo... The animal which was chosen to b

Which city in Japan was struck by

a huge earthquake in 1995?

Kobe

Which country won the 1998 tiger

cup?

Singapore

Which animal has one or two

horns on its snout?

rhinoceros.

Which ASEAN country is divided

into two regions by the sea?

Malaysia

Which explorer discovered

America?

Christopher Columbus

Which planet is closest to the

earth?

Venus

Which animal in Vietnam was chosen to be the logo of SEA

Games 2003

Buffalo

Which food you can chew but you

cannot swallow?

Chewing gum

Which food you can swallow but

you cannot chew?

water

Period 58: Language Focus

Period 58: Language Focus

1 LEAD-IN

The animal was buffalo.

or: The animal was chosen to be the logo of

SEA Games 2003 was buffalo

The man was Neil Armstrong.

He first walked on the moon.

or: The man first walked on the moon was

She is a Vietnamese singer.

or: My Tam, is a Vietnamese singer, who sings very well.

My Tam sings very well.

RELATIVE CLAUSES

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Unit 9

a The animal which was chosen to be the logo of

SEA Games 2003 was buffalo.

c Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have long tails.

b The man who first walked on the moon was Neil Amstrong.

d My Tam, who is a Vietnamese singer, sings very well.

Form:

defining relative clause

, non-defining relative clause ,

Usage:

- Defining relative clauses modify the previous noun.

- Non-defining relative clauses add more information.

RELATIVE CLAUSES

English 9 Unit 9

a/ The city which was struck by a huge earthquake in

1995 is Kobe

1 Use your knowledge to answer the

questions Use “who”, “which”, “that” in

your answer and start your answers with the words given.

b/ The country which won tiger cup is Singapore

c/ the animal which has one or two horns on its snout

f/The animal which was chosen the logo of SEA

games 2003 is buffalo

g/ The ASEAN country which is divided into two

regions by the sea is Malaysia

h/ The food which you can chew but you cannot

swallow is chewing gum and the thing you can swallow but you cannot chew is water

1 Andrew is flying to Sacramento.

e Sacramento is the capital city of California

2 Match each of the sentences in column A with a related sentence in column B.Then

use a suitable pronoun to join the sentences

2 It snowed in Lang Son, which is on the Ky Cung

river , in the winter of 2002

3 Pompeii , which is an ancient city, was completely destroyed in A.D 79 by an eruption of Mount

Vesuvius

1 Andrew is flying to Sacramento, which is the

capital city of California

4 Hurricane Andrew, which swept through southern Florida in August 1992, killed 41 people and made

more than 200,000 homeless

5 The cyclone of November 1970 in Bangladesh,

which killed about 500,000 people, was one the worst

6 The most disastrous earthquake in Japanese

history, which occurred in 1923, damaged Tokyo and Yokohama and killed about 150,000 people

7 The October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, caused extensive damage to older building in San Francisco Bay Area

3 Underline the relative clause in the sentences Then add commas to separate the non-defining relative clause from the rest of the sentence

a Viet Nam which is in south-east Asia exports rice

b Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have long tail

Viet Nam, which is in south-east Asia, exports rice

c Ba, who lives on Trang Tien Street, like playing the guitar

d The novel that you gave me on my birthday has been lost

e Neil Armstrong, who first walked on the moon, lived in the USA

f The chair that I bought yesterday is broken

g Miss Lien, who sings very well, is my English teacher.

4 Rewrite the sentences in exercise 3 Replace

each underlined clause with a clause you have

written You may use facts or your imagination

Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have long tail

Kangaroos, which can be seen everywhere in Australia,

have long tail

Kangaroos, which are called chuot tui in Vietnamese, have long tail.

Combine each sentence with a proper relative pronoun: 1) We are studying sentences They contain adjective clause.

We are studying sentences which contain adjective clause.

2) The explorer was Christopher Columbus He discovered America.

The explorer who discovered America was Christopher

Columbus

3) Mr Lee teaches Chemistry We met him yesterday.

Mr.Lee, whom we met yesterday, teaches Chemistry.

4) Đong Ba market is beautiful It is one of the biggest market in

Hue.

Đong Ba market, which is one of the biggest market, is

beautiful.

I Do the exercises 1, 2, 3 ,4in textbook.

II Prepare the next period: the 45 –minute test