Grammar in Context II Week 10

29 Mar 2025 - 4 Apr 2025

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📑 Remember that is due 2025-03-31. This week, review Relative clauses and the 1st conditional from Understanding Conditionals in English: A Comprehensive Guide.

2025-03-31

  • Teams

    This week, you may choose your teams, as long as your team has between 4-5 members.

  • Get into your teams of four-to-five for this week.

  • Review vocabulary related to technology: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=technology+devices&t=vivaldi&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images.

  • Review first conditional and (restricted and unrestrictive) relative clauses with new vocabulary.

    • Restricted relative clauses are a necessary part of the sentence - they are required for the sentence to make sense. Unrestricted relative clauses provide extra information. The sentence still makes sense if the unrestricted relative clause were to be removed.

    • How should the comma be used (if at all) in each of the following sentences below?

      • My biological mother, who has red hair, also enjoys getting her fingernails done. Unrestricted

      • The recipe that I used for making chocolate chip cookies called for different ingredients. Restricted

      • We need to hire someone who understands digital marketing. Restricted

      • Is this the platform where the train to Edinburgh departs? Restricted

      • The report, which contained several errors, had to be rewritten. Unrestricted

      • My friend Alicia, who is a talented artist, painted this picture. Unrestricted

    • In your teams for this week, choose a product that you want to review. Send me a list of your teammates and the product you wish to review. Write two sentences with relative clauses - per person - and include one example of a restricted and one example of an unrestricted clause.

  • Reminder: is due today.

2025-04-01

2025-04-02

  • Review TOEFL items

2025-04-03

2025-04-04