1. Defining relative clauses
9B Unit 4 Grammar
Defining relative clauses

2. Discussion What are they wearing? Can you describe the team using
attributives?

3. Attributives
a red team
2. a team in red
3. a team who are wearing red

4. defining relative clause
Question: Which is defining relative clause?
a red team
2. a team in red
3. a team who are wearing red
adjective
prepositional phrase
defining relative clause

5. Introduction
A defining relative clause modifies a noun in the same way that an adjective or prepositional phrase does. The noun it modifies is called an antecedent.
eg. a team who are wearing red

6. People we admire P64 He’s the person who discovered America.
Tell me the person who you want to write about.
I believe that he’s the best football player that has ever played.
Have you found the information that you need for your article?
…,but I’ve found a website that gives a detailed introduction to Columbus.

7. Relative pronouns
who which that
People or things
people
things

8. Fill in the blanks with who, which, or that
who / that
The boy ____________ is playing ping-pong is my classmate.
The ___________ I received yesterday was from my sister.
I hate those people ______________ talk much but do little.
The car _____________ my father bought last month is very beautiful.
( )
which/ that
who / that
( )
which / that
当关系代词在定语从句中作宾语时可以省略。

9. 5.This is the first film ________ I have seen since I came here.
6. This is the best novel _______ I have read.
7.The only thing ______you should do is to cheer up.
that
that
that
当先行词被序数词(含the last)，形容词的最高级等词修饰时，关系代词只能that.

10. Change them into defining relative clauses
Match
A bookworm
A couch potato
A sports fan
likes reading very much.
loves to play or watch.
spends much time watching TV.
Change them into defining relative clauses

11. Talk about the pictures using the attributive clauses

12. Please complete the notes about Bruce Lee in Part B1 with who, which or that.

13. Play a game Report like this: ____ is the(first) person who/that____.
5 students in front of the classroom
--- to watch and say what
the other students do
The other students--- to do anything as
you like
Report like this:
____ is the(first) person who/that____.

14. 1.I’m reading a book. The book is about Bill Gates.
Combine the two sentences together:
1.I’m reading a book. The book is about Bill Gates.
_______________________________________
2.He is a teacher. The teacher teaches us Chinese.
3.I don’t like the man. He is smoking.
____________________________________
4.Where is the picture? You bought it last week.
I’m reading a book that/which is about Bill Gates.
He is a teacher who/ that teaches us Chinese.
I don’t like the man who is smoking.
Where is the picture that you bought last week?

15. How much do you know about Albert Einstein?

16. Page 67 Part B3:
Correct the conversation

17. Page 66 Part B2: Rearrange the words and
add the correct relative pronouns to form correct sentences.

18. 2.Einstein is the person who/that developed the theory of relativity. B2
2.Einstein is the person who/that
developed the theory of relativity.
3.The subjects which/that Einstein
studied were maths and physics.
4.The scientists who/that worked with
Einstein admired him very much.
5.The award that/which Einstein received
was the Nobel Prize.
6.The equation that/which Einstein
worked out is E=mc².

19. 7.Princeton University was the university
that/which Einstein worked in after he
moved to the USA.
8.Einstein was one of the greatest
scientists who/that lived in the
twentieth century.
9.The contribution which/that Einstein
made to modern physics is unique.

20. Consolidation
exercises

21. Multiple choices: 1. We’ll remember those days _________
we spent together.
A. when B. in which
C. in that D. which
2. The doctor _________ is leaving for
Africa next month.
A. the nurse is talking to him
B. whom the nurse is talking
C. the nurse is talking to
D. who the nurse is talking

22. The house that they built it in 1987 stayed up in the earthquake.
Corrections:
The house that they built it in 1987 stayed up in the earthquake.
I will never forget the poor boy who have no arms.
3.He is the second man who I know in the city .
4.Look ! The tree where Jack is climbing is quite tall .
has
that
which

23. Thank you!