Grammar: Relative clauses & "VT" "VI"

**English garden** · 20-03-2010, 03:53 PM

Salam
How are u all!?
Hope u're OK :)

Today, I explained the grammar lesson in U 2..
At the beginning, I was hesititing cuz the rule is not too clear, & students may not understand the relative clause but! I don't know how did I explained it in a way that they get enjoyed & understood it easily!!
At the end of the period, they told me: "we like it, it's delicious!!"

mmmm, I'll start explaining now ^^

On the board, I wrote some sentences:
Asma who is the tallest girl is my sister.
The car which is blue is my father's.
King Fahd University which is in Dhahran is the smallest university.
Riyadh which is in the centre of Saudi Arabia is the capital of S.A.
There is no gril who has three eyes.

I underlined [who & which] in the sentences & asked: what are they?
elicit: they are wh- questions..
I said: No!, are these questions or sentences?
they replied: No, sentences...
I completed: so they are not wh- questions! they are relative pronouns..
wrote them on the board and said: in English there are 3 relatvie pronouns
that, who, which..
now look at the sentences again and tell me..
Is there one or two information about Asma?
they said: two.
I said: great! what are they?
elicit them, underlined them..
I did the same for other setences..
The last one, they said it's one..
:)
mmm, I completed..
in the sentences, there are two information, we can put one of them between two commas!
we should look for the beginning of the relative clause & the end!
Asma, who is the tallest girl, is my sister.
I asked them about the other sentences, and they answered correctly direclty!!
the last one, they said we cann't put commas cuz there is only one information :)

Actually, they fought & shouted & cried just to answer ^^

mmmm, I know really that the word one & two information is incorrect but it was the most simple word for them :)

I'll come back soon to complete the rest of the lesson :)

Allah protect u all..
Be fine..

**English garden** · 20-03-2010, 04:13 PM

Back :)

we answered the excersie on pupil's book then moved to the second part of the lesson..
I asked them to answer it in pairs in 5 minutes only :)

I wrote on the board..
The moon appears at night.
The sun rises every day.
Ali drank cupuchinno.
Maha wrote a play.
Muhammad travelled to Italy.

I asked them: where is the V, S, O?
elicit answers.. didn't tell them that some objects are not correct ^^
asked: are they active or passive?
they said: active cuz S, V, O
I asked them: can u change in to passive?
They shouted to answer ^^
The moon appears at night.
At night is appeared by the moon.
^^
I said: excellent!
I asked them to read the passive again..
asked: Is the information correct here?
can the moon appear the night?
they replied with aloud voice & surprising: Nooooooooooooooo!!!
I told them: so the passive is incorrect!
we cann't make it passive..
at night, this is time not object..

did the same with other sentences..

At the end, I told that..
there r 2 kinds of verbs..
Transitive verb & intransitive verb..
(VT) (VI)
VT: should have an object after it & we can make the sentence passive..
VI: has no object after it & we cann't make the sentence passive..

I asked them to open thier books, read the verbs on the box..
answered the ex :)

this is everything :)

Hope u get benifit :)

Salam..