You have reached the section devoted to defining and non-defining relative clauses which are some intimidating phrases so you might want to leave them out of your introduction and focus on the important stuff such as how to form and use them. With 93 relative clause worksheets to choose from, you should be able to find something here that your students will like. Check out this great activity that students complete by working in groups and as a class. All the materials and directions are included to ensure that everything goes smoothly. Be sure to make enough copies of the first page; there should be enough cards for each student to make three sentences which means that one copy is only good for four students. If your class is quite large, you might consider thinking up some partial sentences of your own to add more variety to the lesson. This worksheet is perfect for upper level learners but if your students are at a lower level, you can adapt this or simply find another more suitable activity to use in your class.
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A worksheet with many sentences to complete with the relatives or join two sentences into one by means of a relative clause. You can cut the sentences into strips and share them among the students ...
Useful sheets for revising transformation in English structures at an intermediate level. It includes changes passive/active, reported/direct speech, joining sentences through relative pronouns, ...
With this test, students can revise Relative clauses, Conditionals clauses, Passive voice and Reported Speech. There are five questions:
1. Write the correct relative pronoun or adverb,
2. Join ...
With this worksheet students will learn how to define words in English. It is an easy layout where students can learn to describe words related to people, objects, places and animals. Students can ...
This is a worksheet for revising relative pronouns at elementary level. There are 3 activities in which students are asked to complete the sentences with who or which, write definitions following ...
This PowerPoint presentation helps students understand forming adjective clauses / relative clauses in an easy way where animation was used. It helped most of the below average EFL students in my ...
This worksheet helps students to learn relative clauses and some conjunctions such as "as long as" It is enjoyable for intermediate and upper intermediate levels. You can write on youtube "As lon ...
The aim of this worksheet is to provide vocabulary dealing with cars and their parts. The first exercise deals with the exterior and the second one with the engine and its parts. It can be used wi ...
Perfect Song to talk about Human Values! This song is played by a group of street singers from almost all countries put together by a producer. Today, they have CDs, DVDs and have concerts all ov ...
It's a power point presentation about football. In the beginning,there are some questions to be discussed in pairs or in groups. Right after, there's a quiz about football world, this activity can ...
In this table, I tried to categorize all connectors and show their usages. Teaching kinds of sentences is really a hard task. By using this table teachers can show their Ss how to connect sentence ...
A worksheet for Japanese students. There are instructions in Japanese and some Japanese definitions for various English words. The worksheet contains two exercises: 1. connect the English and Japa ...
This is an easy way to understand how a clause is made up, and shows how they are tested on TOEFL exams. A brief description of a clause if given. Then a short explanation on main and subordinate ...
This is a worksheet that provides good practice for relative clauses. With explanations in Spanish to understand every single relative pronoun and some practice. First to distinguish between some ...
The worksheet is based on a cheerful song "Lautar" by a Moldovan singer Pasha Parfeny, who took part in Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku. The worksheet contains blanks and explanations or exer ...
A worksheet for intermediate students on defining relative clauses. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to fill in the gaps with a relative pronoun and join the sentences ...
Worksheet about the song of The Script. Students will listen to the song and fill in the blanks and then you can discuss the song with the students and talk about the relative clauses and the firs ...
This ws consists of 2 exercises to revise defining relative clauses. In the 1st one, the students have to fill in the gaps with the correct relative pronoun or adverb. In the 2nd one, they are giv ...
To revise paraphrasing exercises on Present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple and relative clauses. Suitable for students doing 4th year as a second language, or pre-interm ...
This is a worksheet for revising relative pronouns and relative clauses. There is a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by 2 simple activities to go with it.
A 2-page worksheet for teaching defining and non-defining relative clauses. There´s a brief explanation at the top of the page followed by 2 different activities in which students are asked ...
A student started this as a summary of relative clauses. I corrected her few mistakes and spruced it up a bit, but I find it to be a pretty good cheat sheet of relative clauses. Please note this i ...
This is a worksheet suitable for intermediate students on relative pronouns. There are explanations at the top of the page followed by 2 activities in which students are asked to complete senten ...
This worksheet is about practicing relative clauses and relative pronouns. In the first exercise students have to join two sentences by using a relative pronoun. In the second exercise students ha ...
Use this worksheet to explain how to use adjective clauses in the ESL classroom. This worksheet is geared towards adult learners, and includes a student and teacher version. Students must choose ...
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