Unit 13 - Language Focus

Cleft sentences in the active Câu chẻ chủ động - Subject focus: dùng để nhấn mạnh chủ ngữ của hành động Ex: The man gave her the book... -Adverbial focus: Dùng để nhấn mạnh trạng từ  I

Unit 13

HOBBIES

E Language focus TEACHER: TRIEU THI THU TRANG

stopped

jumped

stepped

trapped

robbed stabbed grabbed bribed

stops steps maps shops

robs bribes rubs clubs

Practise reading aloud these sentences

bumped into an old man

interrupt their talk

Cleft sentences in the active

(Câu chẻ chủ động)

- Subject focus: dùng để nhấn mạnh chủ ngữ của hành động

Ex: The man gave her the book (Exercise 1- page 152)

-Object focus: dùng để nhấn mạnh túc từ

152)

-Adverbial focus: Dùng để nhấn mạnh trạng từ

 It was at a shop that she bought him a present

Exercise 1 (Page 152)

Individual work

month

2 My mother bought me a present on my

birthday

 It was my mother who bought me a

present on my birthday

3 Huong and Sandra sang together at the party

together at the party

4 Nam’s father got angry with him

him

5 The boys played football all day long

 It was the boys who played football all day long

6 The girl received a letter from her friend yesterday

 It was the girl who received a letter from her friend yesterday

7 His presence at the meeting frightened the children

 It was his presence at the meeting that frightened the children

Exercise 2 (Page 152)

Individual work

2 The woman gave him the book.

 It was the book that the woman gave him.

3 She sent her friend the postcard.

4 Hoa borrowed the book from Long.

5 The little boy greeted his grandfather in a strange language

boy greeted in a strange language

6 The pedestrian asked the policeman a lot

of questions

pedestrian asked a lot of questions

7 The dog barked at the stranger

 It was the stranger who(m) the dog

barked at

Exercise 3 (Page 153)

Individual work

2 She made some cakes for tea

 It was for him that his father repaired the

bicycle

4 She presented him a book on his birthday.

 It was on his birthday that she presented him a book

5 He met his wife in Britain

6 She bought that present from the shop

present

7 The meeting started at 8,00a.m

 It was at 8,00a.m that the meeting started

Choose the sentence that can best

replace the sentence provided.

grew up

grew up

grew up

grew up

2 Your carelessness caused the accident.

caused

caused

accident

accident

3 Hue helped me a lot with my study last

semester

A It was Hue that helped me a lot with my study last semester

B It was Hue that has helped me a lot with

my study last semester

C It was Hue that had helped me a lot with

my study last semester

D It was Hue that was helped me a lot with

my study last semester

4 –Did the headmaster give Tham a bicycle as a

scholarship?

-The headmaster gave Tam a bicycle as a

scholarship.

bicycle as a scholarship.

as a scholarship.

scholarship.

scholarship.

5 – Who put the photo here on the desk?

- Don’t you remember? You put it there

on your birthday

birthday

there

birthday

your birthday