B1 - File 10 (first part)

Dear Students,
in today's lesson we are going to do File 10A Idols and icons, on page 162. The most important part of it is the Grammar. We'll be tackling Relative Sentences. Please go to your Grammar Bank, page 222.

Relative Clauses can be DEFINING and NON-DEFINING.

DEFINING:
They are essential to the sentence. Without them, the meaning is incomplete.

WHO (or THAT) is used to refer to people.
WHICH (or THAT) to things or animals.
WHERE for places.
WHOSE means of who or of which (in Spanish, cuyo)

Ex. The man who (that) lives next door is bad-tempered.

We need to define The man to know who we are talking about.
If the relative pronoun (who, which, that) is NOT the subject of the verb in the relative clause, it can be omitted.
Ex. She is the student (WHO/THAT) I met at the party.

As you can see, the subject of met is not who or that. It is I, so, the relative pronoun can be left out.

Ex. She is the student WHO/ THAT passed all the exams.
The subject of passed is who or that (quien/que), so it CAN'T be omitted.

NON-DEFINING
They are not essential. If you omit them, the sentence still retains its full meaning. They add extra information to the sentence.

• The main characteristic is that they are BETWEEN COMMAS.
• The pronouns WHO, WHICH, WHERE and WHOSE must be always present.
• THAT is not possible.

Ex.  My neighbour, WHO has just bought a new bicycle, is the loveliest person in the street.
Ex. My car ,WHICH I washed yesterday, has been stolen.

Now do exercises a and b on page 222 and check your answers.

You will find more grammar explanations and extra practice in this FOLDER. Please download the PDF and work on it.

Now do the exercises on the Worksheet for 10A, Grammar. You will find it in the same Folder.

Remember that you also have the Workbook pages for 10A  (p 172) and the Online Practice. Access with your code and do the extra exercises that you consider you need revise File 10A. Don't forget to do the Listening Comprehension  exercise there and the part For Speakers of Spanish. Also I recommend you look at File 10A of your Pocket Book for Speakers of Spanish. 


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