U13-Language focus

Trong tiếng Anh để muốn nhấn mạnh một yếu tố nào đó trong câu người ta dùng cấu trúc cleft sentences câu chẻ.. Thuật ngữ "câu chẻ" có lẽ xuất phát từ hình tượng "chẻ " câu ra để chen c

I PRONUNCIATION

1 Listen and repeat

stopped

jumped

stepped

trapped

robbed stabbed grabbed bribed

stops steps maps shops

robs bribes rubs clubs

2.Practise reading aloud these sentences

1 She was robbed.

2 He stopped smoking.

3 Lan dropped her teapot.

4 The boy jumped out into the road and bumped into an old

man.

5 She s been to a number of sho ’ ps and clubs.

6 He rubs his hands because he wants to interrupt their

talk.

Trong tiếng Anh để muốn nhấn mạnh một yếu tố nào đó trong câu người ta dùng cấu trúc cleft sentences ( câu chẻ) Thuật ngữ "câu chẻ" có lẽ xuất phát từ hình tượng "chẻ " câu ra để chen các cụm từ khác vào để nhấn mạnh.

Câu chẻ với chủ ngữ giả “It”

1 Subject Focus:

Ex: Mr Duy teaches English at Le Viet

Tao High school

 It is Mr Duy that teaches English at

Le Viet Tao High school

Form: It is/ was + S + that + V + O

S

2 Object Focus:

Ex: Mr Duy teaches English at Le Viet Tao High

school O

 It is English that Mr Duy teaches English at Le Viet Tao High school

•Form:

It is/was + O + that + S + V…

3 Adverbial Focus:

Ex1: Mr Duy teaches English at Le Viet

Tao High school.

adv

 It is at Le Viet Tao High School that Mr

Duy teaches English

•Nếu muốn nhấn mạnh cụm từ nào thì ta chỉ đem cụm đó đặt giữa it was/is và that, các yếu tố khác giữ nguyên

• Nếu là quá khứ thì ta dùng was, hiện tại dùng is

NOTES

1.The boy visited his uncle last month.

2 My mother bought me a present on my birthday

3 Huong and Sandra sang together at the party

5 The boys played football all day long

6 The girl received a letter from her friend yesterday

 It was the girl that/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

1 The man is learning English.

2 The woman gave him the book

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

strange language

6 The pedestrian asked the policeman a lot of questions

questions

7 The dog barked at the stranger

 It was the stranger that/ who(m) the dog barked at

1 The boy hit the dog in the garden.

 It was in the garden that the boy hit the dog.

2 She made some cakes for tea.

 It was for tea that she made some cakes.

3 His father repaired the bicycle for him.

 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.

 It was in Britain that he met his wife

6 She bought that present from the shop.

 It was from the shop that she bought that present

7 The meeting started at 8,00a.m

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