Relative pronouns

Relative Clause

defining and non-defining

Relative clauses

• 1.The book which I liked was a detective story.

  2. The girl who is wearing a blue shirt is Mai.

  3. That the boy whom we saw at school yesterday.

  4. This is the woman with whom Mary is sharing the room.

  5. Thanks for this interesting book, which is bilingual, I can understand much more about American culture and improve my English at the same time.

  6. The company, whose name has been subject to frequent changes, is now called Axeg Group.

  7. That’s the reason why he failed.

  8. That’s the man whose dog was found.

Relative clauses

• Defining: This is the woman with whom Mary is sharing the room. (prepositions+ whom, not who. That can be used instead of which and who, can omit relative pronoun)

• Non defining: There is a doctor on-call at the hotel, who you can call in emergency situations. (That cannot be used, cannot omit relative pronoun.)

Vocabulary

• English language: accent, bilingual, dialect, fluent, mother tongue, etc...

Multiple Choice

One way of increasing your speed of comprehension is to learn all your vocabulary without the use of your own _________.

• first language

• technical language

• official language

• business language

Multiple Choice

It's an important part of your cultural identity to keep your _________in speaking English.

• vocabulary

• language

• accent

• skill

Multiple Choice

Much _________ comes through body language and gesture.

• talk

• speech

• communication

• exchange

Multiple Choice

Try to _________ the meaning of words rather than going straight for your dictionary.

• judge

• guess

• decide

• except

Multiple Choice

Reading is the best way to _________your vocabulary in any language.

• improve

• increase

• raise

• put up

Multiple Choice

She had to learn English because she works for a _________ company.

• multifunctional

• multinational

• world

• big

Multiple Choice

He can speak English quite fast, but he still needs to improve his __________.

• accuracy

• accurate

• fluency

• fluent

Multiple Choice

Keiko is from Japanese, and she can speak English. Therefore, she is a __________.

• native English speaker

• English native speaker

• non-native English speaker

• English non-native speaker

Multiple Choice

She had to learn English because she works for a _________ company.

• multifunctional

• multinational

• world

• big

II.  Write the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word in capital.

1.   This supervisor professor helped me a lot during my study in the College. (WHO)

This is_______________________

2.   Janet learned a few words of French when she was in Paris last year. (UP)

Janet_______________________

3.   My best friend Ali can speak English fluently. (IN)

My_______________________

4.   We met Dan for the first time at an Italian restaurant that we found eventually. (WHERE)

We eventually_________________

5.   Cullen can speak both Chinese and English perfectly. (BILINGUAL)

Cullen______________________

6.   Some of the many people we questioned gave us good description of the robber. (WHOM)

We questioned____________________________________

7.   Matha has lived in Poland for two years, but she can only speak basic Polish. (GET)

Although Matha_________________________________________

8.   The train was extremely crowded and stopped at every station. (WHICH)

The train,___________________________________

9.   I haven’t practiced English for ages, so I’m not as good at it as I used to be. (RUSTY)

My English__________________

10. An doesn’t go abroad for higher education because he doesn’t have enough money. (IF)

An______________________

Unit 9

Grammar: Relative clause, second conditional,

Vocabulary: English language: immersion, intonation, fluency,