Unit 4 Unforgettable experience Grammar

Teaching Aims Learning how to describe people and things, using the Attributive Clause. Learn how to combine a pair of sentences, using who, that, which, whose or whom.

Revision: A teacher is person who teaches at school. The boy who is standing by the door is my little brother. He is the policeman who told me the way yesterday.

Talk about the pictures: 1.Zhang Heng is the man who made the earliest seismograph in Howard Carter is the man who found King Tut’s tomb in 1937.

3.The Titanic is the ship that/which sank after hitting an iceberg. 4.Beijing is the city that/which has got the chance to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

Instruction: The Attributive Clause A clause is a part of a sentence. The Attributive Clause tells us which person or thing ( or what kind of person or thing) the speaker means. The woman who lives next door is a teacher.

Instruction: A sentence with an attributive clause is a combination of two shorter sentences. 1. The woman is a teacher. 2. The woman lives next door.

Relative Pronouns & sample sentences 1.Who is used for people. I met a boy. He can speak three languages. I met a boy who can speak three languages.

Relative Pronouns & sample sentences 2. Which is used for things. Anna was wearing a hat. It was too big for her. Anna was wearing a hat which was too big for her.

Relative Pronouns & sample sentences 3. That is used for things or people. A plane is a machine. It can fly. → A plane is a machine that can fly.

Relative Pronouns & sample sentences 4. Whose is used instead of His/Her/Their We saw some people. Their car had broken down. → We saw some people whose car had broken down.

Relative Pronouns & sample sentences: 5.Whom is quite formal, and in most cases it is all right to use who instead. But when whom has a preposition before it, it cannot be replaced by who. I wanted to see the woman. She had already left. The woman whom I wanted to see had already left.

Match and combine them into sentences using the Attributive Clause: 1.A bookworm is someone … 2.A couch potato is someone… 3.A sports fan is someone … 4.A workaholic is someone…

Check your answers: 1.A bookworm is someone who likes reading very much. 2.A couch potato is someone who spends a lot of time watching TV. 3.A sports fan is someone who loves play or watch sports. 4.A workaholic is someone who often works very hard.

Teaching Aims Learning how to describe people and things, using the Attributive Clause. Learn how to combine a pair of sentences, using who, that, which, whose or whom

Homework: Finish the exercises No.1 and 2 on Page 105 in your workbook.