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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On this worksheet you will find a brief explanation on relative clauses and four exercises
1- complete the sentences using the right relative clause
2-write the correct relative clause and put a ...
This worksheet includes two exercises with fifteen sentences each. Exercise number one: rephrasing fifteen sentences using relative clauses (who,which,that,whose,whom,when,where). Exercise number ...
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching defining and non-defining relative clauses. The first page is basically just a grammar guide with clear explanations and example tenses and the second page ...
The worksheet is divided into 2 activities. In the first activity,students complete sentences with either( who or that) and in the second question, they join the 2 given sentences and make a longe ...
This is a short worksheet suitable for intermediate students on relative clauses and relative pronouns. There are two simple exercises in which students are asked to fill in the blank spaces with ...
We use relative clauses to give additional information about something without starting another sentence. By combining sentences with a relative clause, your text becomes more fluent and you can a ...
This presentation provides necessary explanations regarding defining and non-defining relative clauses, relative pronouns and adverbs used, omission or relative pronouns etc. I hope your students ...
This is a rephrasing worksheet suitable for Bachiller students. It approaches structures like passives (one or two objects), reported speech, conditionals (four types), wishes, relative clauses (d ...
This is a "rephrasing" worksheet aimed at students of Bachiller. It includes the following constructions: passive (two obects, passive of reporting verbs), reported speech, conditionals (four type ...
I have composed a paragraph about a man named Don Guevarra. Some of the information in the paragraph has been taken out and put at the bottom of the page. The objective is to put the sentences bac ...
This sheet has two newspaper articles that I have left gaps in. Before I give the sheets to the students, I either show them a video of the incident and pause it before the woman puts the cat in t ...
Very simple activity on relative pronouns containing a multiple choice activity and 16 sentences in which students complete the sentences with the correct pronoun. This worksheet is editable / c ...
The sheet contains two exercises on defining relative clauses and two on both defining and non-defining relative clauses, in order to differenciate both types. In the fisrt one, students have to f ...
Let's practise some relative clauses and the corresponding relative pronouns. Read and choose the correct option. Paraphrase these following sentences. Remember this is a good way of embading both ...
Tests students on how to create and identify relative clauses in a sentence. Subject related relative clauses specifically at a high intermediate level
This worksheet can be used for intermediate students, doing the first task they have to choose the correct option; the second task is to join two simple sentences into a complex one using relative ...
The aim is the student to identify the type of clause (for example: purpose, reason or result clause, concessive clause, rhetorical question, etc) and link it to the given sentence.