Whose Relative Clauses?

WHOSE

When two sentences talk about the same person, and the second sentence has a possessive form of a word in the first sentence, we can use whose to connect the two sentences.

I know the boy.
The boy's mother works at the YMCA.
I know the boy whose mother works at the YMCA.

I know the boy.
My cousin works with the boy's mother.
I know the boy whose mother my cousin works with.

The painter is Monet.
I really like the painter's work the most.
I painter's whose work I like the most is Monet.

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8:00 more practice with Relative Clauses

1) The car is old. I like my car.
The car that I like is old.
The car which I like is old.
The car I like is old.

2) Poland won the World Cup. The World Cup was in 1940.
Poland won the World Cup which was in 1940.
Poland won the World Cup that was in 1940.

3) Students studied relative clauses. Relative clauses are confusing.
Students studied relative clauses which are confusing.
Students studied relative clauses that are confusing.

4) Students studied relative clauses. The students were confused.
Students who were confused studied relative clauses.
Students that were confused studied relative clauses.

5) Banks went bankrupt. Banks made bad loans.
Banks that made bad loans went bankrupt.
Banks which made bad loans went bankrupt.

Relative clauses Exercise 8 & Cinderella

Grammar
The worksheet that the 8:00 class got as homework and the 6:00 worked on today can be found here.

Cinderella
Here is one sample of the many variations of the traditional fairy tale, Cinderella. We will use it today to help our writing.

We will be finishing the writing that we did about Cinderella or the stories that we started on Monday. Tomorrow we will be posting some of the writing online.

More Subjects, Slavery, and Discrimination

Hello students!

Grammar

We learned that relative clauses add at least one more subject and verb to sentences.

Slavery and Discrimination
Then we saw the slide show with pictures showing how life was segregated or divided in the American South before the Civil Rights Movement. I thought that your pre- and post-Civil Rights Movement skits were wonderful! Wasn't it interesting to be white and Black for a few minutes? I hope your reaction at see these signs, especially the one that said "White's Only No Spanish or Mexicans", reminds us that a struggle for justice and equality is one that we all should be fighting.

Today we will be watching another slide show about slavery and then we will be making one ourselves about discrimination. We will brainstorm about discrimination, find images of discrimination and create PowerPoint slide shows.

Blog and Facebook

Today we finished our discussion about the Feminism article and then we went to to the computer lab where I showed you this blog, facebook, and gave you this crossword puzzle with computer vocabulary to work on. After you finish it, you can find the answers on the second page.



The 6:00 class got the subject and predicate worksheet to do this weekend. Here are the answers for the 8:00 class who got the same assignment yesterday.



P.S. Here is the link for the QCH English School Group on Facebook.

Subjects and Predicates, Feminism

I hope that you found our second class interesting. Post comments and questions.

GRAMMAR
We began learning about subjects and predicates. We did this worksheet in class. The 8:00 class also got this for homework. The 6:00 class can do it for optional practice if they want. I will post the answers tomorrow night.

READING
We read about feminism in this article and answered questions about it. Tomorrow we will finish discussing the article.