English 11 unit 10 language focus

Reordering the following sentences to make a complete paragraph about Cuc Phuong national park.. Presentation: Relative pronouns with prepositions She is the woman whom I told you about

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Reordering the following sentences to make a complete

paragraph about Cuc Phuong national park.

1 It is famous for tropical forests, rare animals and

plants

2 Cuc Phuong national park is located on 160 kilometers south west of Hanoi

3 It contains about 11 kinds of fishes, 97 kinds of

animals and 1944 kinds of plants

4 The park covers an area of 22.200 hectare

5 Visitors go to there to look at the 1000- year-old tree,

12000 year-old stone tools.

Answer: 2  1  4  3  5

Unit 10: NATURE IN DANGER

Period 66: Language focus

1 2

4 3

She is swimming She is sneezing

1 Pronunciation

/sw/ /sn/

What is he/she doing?

Activity 1: Listening and repeating

slave small snack swallow sleep smart sneeze swim slim smell snooker swing slowly smoke snowy switch

A: Is Sn owy at home? Sn owy Sm ith?

B: He is sl eeping Go away.

A: Sl eeping? Where?

B: In there Why do you sm ile?

A: Perhaps Sn owy is in there But he is not a sl eep B: I sw ear he is sl eeping.

A: When Sn owy sl eeps, he sn ores but he looks

sw eet.

Activity 2: Practicing reading dialogue

2 Grammar:

a Presentation: Relative pronouns with prepositions

She is the woman

whom I told you about She is the woman about whom I told you She is the woman about whom I told you.

The relative pronoun with preposition

about

1.PERSON + WHO + V

WHOM + S (I, we, John…) +V

2.THING + WHICH + V

S (I, you, Mr Pike…)+V

3.PERSON + preposition + WHOM

4.THING + preposition + WHICH

in which = where

for which = why

*Notes:

•A relative pronoun can be the object of preposition

•Preposition can be put before whom or which, cannot be put before who or that (formal English).

1 The woman is Mary’s mother Mary is talking to

whom/that

her

 The woman is Mary’s mother

whom/that Mary is talking to

 The woman to whom Mary is talking is her mother.

Or

2 This is the magazine I talked about yesterday

 This is the magazine about which I talked yesterday.

This is the magazine

Or

which/that

it

which/that I talked about yesterday.

1 The woman

the magazine

Mary is talking to her.

I talked about it yesterday.

7 It was the kind of accident for which nobody

was really to blame

1 To whom it may concern

2 It was a service for which I was grateful

3 The success of a shared holiday depends on whom you share it with

4 Do you like the person who sits next to you ?

5 Midway through the second half , Manchester United

scored their third goal , at which point Leeds

United gave up completely

6 There is one person to whom I owe more

than I can say

who /

/ that

who / / whom

that /

/ who

/ that

Exercise 1 : Choose the suitable italicised words to complete the

following sentences

Exercise 1 : Choose the suitable italicised words to complete the

following sentences

LUCKY NUMBER

1 Jack is the one I miss most.

2 It was a kind of computer with I was not familiar

3 Do you get on with the person lives next

door ?

4 I must thank the man from I got the present

5 It is an event I would rather forget

6 The meeting to I went was interesting

7 The person did it was never caught

8 That’s the woman to Jim used to married

Exercise 3 : Completing the following sentences, using who,

whom, which or that

Exercise 3 : Completing the following sentences, using who,

whom, which or that

that

which

which/ that

who/ that whom

which who/ that

whom

Do exercises in handout

 Prepare the next lesson: Unit 11 - Reading

1 The man was very kind I talked

to him yesterday.

 The man to whom I talked yesterday

was very kind.

2 I’ll give you the address

You should write to it.

 I’ll give you the address to which you

should write.

4 The woman teaches me English

I am telling you about her.

 The woman about whom I am telling

you teaches me English.

5 The movie is fantastic They are

talking about it.

 The movie about which they are

talking is fantastic.

6 The man works in the hospital

I told you about him.

 The man about whom I told you

works in the hospital.

1 She is the woman I told you about her.

 She is the woman about whom I told you.

2 The song was interesting We listened to it last night

 The song to which we listened last night was interesting