Relative Clauses & The Radio Soraya García-Sánchez ULPGC

Can you explain these expressions? Playlists Radio station On air Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Pair work: Discuss… Why do you listen to the radio? Do you listen to the radio by means of the Internet? Which is your favourite radio station? Why? When was the last time you listened to an interview on the radio? Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Warm up: Identify Relative Clauses It’s the person who announces/plays on the air It’s a short simple tune, often with words, which is easy to remember and is used to advertise a product on the radio It’s the group of people, which a radio station usually addresses to It is the radio show that you can find online Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Warm up: Identify Relative Clauses It’s the person who announces/plays on the air. It’s a short simple tune, often with words, which is easy to remember and is used to advertise a product on the radio. It’s the group of people, which a radio station usually addresses to. It is a radio show/programme that you can listen to online or download. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Discuss in pairs What are relative clauses? There are 2 types, do you know their names? Do they describe a noun or an action? Which words can be used at the beginning of a relative clause? Can they be replaced with a noun or an adjective? Have you ever heard the word «antecedent»? Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

What are relative clauses? (1) Relative Clauses describe or provide information about something or someone (a noun) that we have usually already specified Relative Clauses are similar in function to adjectives I like living in places which are quiet/in quiet places. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

What are relative clauses? (2) Relative Clauses enable us to combine clauses without repeating things. Examples: I tried to help a child. The child was crying. I tried to help a child who was crying. I had to translate the whole text. Translating the whole text was difficult for me. I had to translate the whole text, which was difficult for me. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Relative clauses We use relative clauses in order to: identify things or people (DEFINING RC) distinguish them from other similar things or people (DEFINING RC) add extra information about those things or people (NON-DEFINING RC –between commas) Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Relative pronouns: functions  As subject, directly followed by its verb I told you about the woman who lives next door.  As object, directly followed by the subject of the verb I was invited by the professor who(m) I met at the conference. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Where can the relative pronoun be left out? When it is the object of a defining relative clause The boy (who/whom) we met yesterday is very nice. In non-defining relative clauses, relative pronouns can never be left out Jim, who/whom we met yesterday, is very nice. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

TO SUM UP: TYPES OF RELATIVE CLAUSES DEFINING DEFINE / IDENTIFY THE NOUN NO COMMAS ALL RELATIVE PRONOUNS ARE POSSIBLE NON DEFINING ADD EXTRA INFORMATION COMMAS ARE NECESSARY «THAT» IS NOT POSSIBLE Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Defining and non-defining relative clauses COMPARE: 1. The students who have handed in the assignments can take the final exam. 2. The students, who have handed in the assignments, can take the final exam. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Complete the following sentences with the appropriate relative pronoun 1. He’s got a job in a new firm, _________ they don’t work such long hours. 2. The house in __________________ the old woman was found is in ruins. 3. This is the town _______________________ they first met. 4. There’s a film on tonight _________________ you might like. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Complete the following sentences with the appropriate relative pronoun 5. The people ______________________ live next door are from New York 6. She’s married someone __________________ I really don’t like. 7. She’ll always remember the day ___________ she first met her husband. 8. I’ll always remember the day on ___________ I took my last exam at university. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

Complete the following sentences with the appropriate relative pronoun 9. I can’t understand the reason ____________ she’s always getting at me. 10. The only reason for ____________________ I don’t want to go to that party is because I know he’ll be there. 11. I saw a boy ______________________ curly black hair came down to his waist. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

TO DESCRIBE: RELATIVE PRONOUNS PEOPLE THINGS POSSESSION PLACE TIME REASON Preposition + Reason+Reason for + Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

TO DESCRIBE: RELATIVE PRONOUNS PEOPLE THINGS POSSESSION PLACE TIME REASON WHO WHOMTHAT WHICH THAT WHOSE WHEREIN WHICH WHENON/IN/DURING WHICH Reason WHYReason for WHICH Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

HMWK!! Read page 21 on the course textbook, ENGLISH, TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Do exercises on pages 22 and 23. Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC

References Lengua Inglesa II (Nº 6) (Colección Manuales Docentes Universitarios). Mª Jesús González Márquez, María Henríquez Betancor, Carolina Rodríguez Juárez y Mª Jesús Vera Cazorla. Publicado por el Vicerrectorado de Planificación y Calidad de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2003, ISBN: English, Technology and Telecommunications. M. Soraya García Sánchez y Carmen I. Luján García. Publicado por Editorial ECU en Alicante, 2010, ISBN: “Relative Clauses”. British Coucil on phrase-and-sentence/verb-patterns/relative-clauses phrase-and-sentence/verb-patterns/relative-clauses Soraya García-Sánchez, ULPGC