Participle clauses can also follow prepositions or conjunctions. In groups they will race against each other to complete the task first. Explanations and examples along with tests and exercises online to practise english time clauses. Find relative clauses lesson plans and teaching resources. Teachingenglish lesson plans uk bbc british council 2012. Whether or not shes going to give us another chance isnt certain. The grammar is simple enough, but it can be a bit difficult to come up with a fun activity or game that gets students using relative clauses when speaking.
Diagram the sentence and, to the side of your diagram, indicate what job each clause is doing. There is also an idea for a game i play with my students during speaking classes which they all enjoy and actually leads to more conversation discussion about how difficult or not the clues. English esl relative clauses worksheets most downloaded 227. Indicates an action that happens simultaneously with the action in the main clause. Defining relative clauses 1 in pdf here defining relative clauses 2 in pdf here defining relative clauses 3 in pdf here defining relative clauses 4 in pdf here go to the main relative clauses explanation page here. Find adjective clause lesson plans and teaching resources. A relative clause speaking activity which is fabulously fun relative clauses are a classic grammar point that youll find in just about every 4skills esl textbook. Tell students that you are going to define the country without giving the name and they have to guess what it is. Relative clauses describe or give extra information about something. Lesson 271 noun clauses a noun clause is a dependent clause that can be used in the same way as a noun or pronoun. We decided to have a picnic although the weather wasnt very good. Because he didnt study hard enough for his exam, ryan couldnt pass it. Page 1 of 4 participle phrases as reduced relative clauses. Aug 18, 2018 teaching phrases and clauses how to identify the difference and types of each.
Relative clause pdf games, esl activities, and interactive and printable worksheets to help teach a2, b1, b2 levels definingnondefining relative clauses. Decide if the clauses below are dependent or independent. Click here for information about participle adjectives. The why game for practicing clauses of reason and purpose. Expansion activities fundamentals of english grammar, 3rd edition chapter 14. Additionally, it features a table to fill in with examples of those nouns. Clause worksheets clauses are difficult for most students. Learn techniques for teaching adjectives and adjective clauses from university of california, irvine. Noun clauses, young learners, homework, wordsetscollocations. What do you notice about the verbs in the if clause and in the main clause. Relative clauses pdf quiz relative clauses worksheet relative clauses pdf exercises defining and.
Tenses printable pdf worksheets for english language learners intermediate level b1. Relative clauses are used to describe the noun naming the process or position when discussing tasks that need to be completed, or explaining how certain things work. This worksheet contains the definitions of proper and common nouns. The ability to use relative clauses easily is important to all english learners, but perhaps even more important to those wanting to use english in their workplaces. Then you can use the answer key to check your answers. Relative clauses are a classic grammar point that youll find in just about every 4skills esl textbook. Practice rewrite the following sentences using participle clauses. Preparation make one copy of the cards for each group of three or four and cut as indicated. A noun clause is a clause that is used in the same way as a noun or a pronoun. Richard nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and english at georgia southern university and the author of several universitylevel grammar and composition textbooks. Subordinate clauses simply dont express a complete thought and cant stand by themselves as a sentence. Clause and phrase game free by jessica osborne tpt. A fun relative clause speaking activity activities to try.
In the last 8 sentences students write an s if which or that is the subject of the adjective clause and o if which or that is the. Example i know what he was doing there in the classroom a way for learners to identify a noun clause is for them to change the noun clause for it, he or she and see if it still works. See more ideas about teaching, teaching grammar and grammar and punctuation. One of the important keys for this unit is to limit the scope. While any of magnetar or any magnetar fund is a member of the d group, magnetar, and the magnetar fund, and each other fund or any account managed by them and each officer, director, employee, or agent or representative of magnetar and the magnetar fund and each other fund managed by it each of the foregoing persons and entities being a magnetar party, will. The teacher was impressed by daniels work, so she gave him the highest mark.
Esl grammar activities games worksheets teach this esl. Ideas for teaching participle clauses teaching english. Other ways of expressing condition and time relationships i. As participle clauses are often used to describe a process, its a good idea to get your students to practice this aspect also. While any of magnetar or any magnetar fund is a member of the d group, magnetar, and the magnetar fund, and each other fund or any account managed by them and each officer, director, employee, or agent or representative of magnetar and the magnetar fund and each other fund managed by it each of the foregoing persons and entities being a. The relative pronoun can be the subject or the object of the relative clause. This game is for students to practice the difference between a clause and a phrase.
Fundamentals of english grammar, 3rd edition chapter 14. Trivia sentence building challenge give or brainstorm a list of things that trivia questions are often about, e. Defining relative clauses they describe the preceding noun in such a way as to distinguish it from other nouns of the same class. Placing the subject at the beginning of the participle clause. Identify examples of subordinate clauses and distinguish them from independent clauses.
I saw jack while he was parking in front of his house. In groups they will race against each other to complete the task. A collection of english esl worksheets for home learning, online practice, distance learning and english classes to teach about participle, clauses, particip. Identifying clauses in complex sentences worksheet. It shows that the action is done to the subject, not by the subject. You can use either a defining relative clause without commas or a nondefining relative clause with commas. The why game for practicing clauses of reason and purpose this is an activity i did with with an intermediate group of young learners who absolutely loved it. Jan 17, 2020 relative clauses are used to describe the noun naming the process or position when discussing tasks that need to be completed, or explaining how certain things work.
Participle clauses lessons pdf version of the exercise english grammar exercises. Past participle of regular and irregular verbs esl. Having been trained for 2 years, he has become very skilful in the trade. Outstanding collection of esl grammar activities, games and worksheets to help. It can be a subject, predicate nominative, direct object, appositive, indirect object, or object of the preposition. Underline the independent clause once and the dependent or subordinate clause twice. Some noun clauses begin with words such as that, what, why, or other words that. If i hadnt been so tired, i would not have given up. Before you go home today, you need to go to the office and pay for the school trip. The activities and exercises in this lesson help familiarize your students with adjective. Draw a line separating the clauses in the sentence, count them, and write the amount of clauses on the line.
We use relative pronouns like which, that, who and where at the beginning of relative clauses. Some of the words that introduce noun clauses are that, whether, who, why, whom, what, how, when, whoever, where, and whomever. The title says it all, this sheet gives a description of relative clauses both defining and non defining, how to form them, use them and shorten them. English grammar time clauses exercises focusenglishschool. We can use participle clauses after a noun in the same way as relative clauses. It led to what was easily the longest conversations theyd had in english all year. Relative clauses b1 pdf worksheets english practice. Because it had snowed all night, i had terrible problems getting to school. This use of prepositions or conjunctions before participle clauses mainly ing participle clauses is quite common.
Level intermediate time 30 minutes introduction here is a fun guessing game to help students practice using defining relative clauses with who. All the teaching resources come in userfriendly a4 pdf format with full. Noun clauses truefalse the two sentences have the same meaning. It is helpful before teaching simple, compound, and complex sentences. It does not express a complete thought and is not a complete sentence. Fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets in the correct forms. The information in relative clauses is always essential for understanding. Techniques for teaching adjectives and adjective clauses. In this adjective clause worksheet, students choose who, whom, or which to complete the 12 sentences. Tell students they are going to use these structures to describe one of the following.
Defining relative pronouns exercise people that who whom owners whose things that which places where when the relative pronoun is an object, it can be omitted except with whose and where. When you start teaching subordinate clauses, it feels natural to bring up complex sentences, runon sentences, comma rules when dealing. Write the line numbers of the three if clauses that have simple present tense verbs. English practice downloadable pdf grammar and vocabulary worksheets. Circle the eight examples of if and the two examples of wish in the passage. Dependent clauses start with because, since directions. An independent clause is a complete worked out thought. All three of these sentences are talking about the future time. Write the line numbers of the four if clauses that have simple past tense verbs. Relative clauses games esl activities worksheets teach this esl. Relative clauses for speaking lessons busy teacher.
Past participle worksheets pdf, printable exercises. Students should choose one of the things from the list and say something true about that thing or person, e. Defining relative clauses with who, which and where aim to describe words using defining relative clauses. Defining relative clauses exercise 4 make one sentence by changing the sentence in italics into a defining relative clause. Students who understand adjective clauses can be better readers and stronger, more sophisticated writers. It makes no difference in terms of meaning the two clauses can usually be reversed although clauses with onlyif usually come second. Write the subjectverb combinations from both the if clause and the main clause. Decide if the red words form a dependent or independent clause. Acting as a noun a noun clause is a type of subordinate clause. Heres a list of all the relative clause exercises on the site. Chuckys participle clauses tims free english lesson plans. In english grammar, a noun clause is a dependent clause that functions as a noun that. Reduced relative clauses download this page in pdf here. In this course, you will learn how to effectively teach.