(TESOL Ideas and Worksheets Subdivisions)
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses
Monday, October 14, 2024
Garbage Man for Relative Clauses
This is the house. I live here. |
This is the girl. I like the girl. |
The pencil broke yesterday. I like to use the pencil. |
My brother loves to eat pizza. My brother’s hat is green. |
Tom’s father goes swimming every day. Tom’s father is 78. |
I don’t like stories. Stories have unhappy endings. |
The man was on holiday. I wanted to see the man. |
This is the worst film. I’ve seen this film. |
Gerry works for a company. The company makes typewriters. |
The man has been married twice. I met the man. |
This is the house. I live here. This is the house where I live. |
This is the girl. I like the girl. This is the girl who I like. |
The pencil broke yesterday. I like to use the pencil. The pencil that I like to use broke yesterday. |
My brother loves to eat pizza. My brother’s hat is green. My brother, whose hat is green, loves to eat pizza. |
Tom’s father goes swimming every day. Tom’s father is 78. Tom’s father, who is 78, goes swimming every day. |
I don’t like stories. Stories have unhappy endings. I don’t like stories that have unhappy endings. |
The man was on holiday. I wanted to see the man. The man who I wanted to see was on holiday. |
This is the worst film. I’ve seen this film. This is the worst film that I’ve ever seen. |
Gerry works for a company. The company makes typewriters. Gerry works for a company that makes typewriters. |
The man has been married twice. I met the man. The man that I met has been married twice. |
Using Strega Nona to Teach the Difference Between Defining and non-defining Relative Clauses (i.e. defining and describing)
Here are some sentences from the story. In which sentences do you know what thing is being referred to? In which sentences do you need more information? | Here is some more information. Which sentences do they go with? Can you make new sentences using this information? |
there lived an old lady. She made special potions for the girls. Big Anthony went to see her. The one thing is touch the pasta pot. Strega Nona met with the people. everyone laughed at him, because it sounded so silly--a pot? How ridiculous! she took a fork from a lady. | Big Anthony didn’t pay attention. The lady was standing nearby. Everyone called the old lady Strega Nona. The girls wanted husbands. Strega Nona meant grandma witch. the pot cooked pasta all by itself You must never do this thing. The people came to see Strega Nona for headaches and husbands and warts. |
there lived an old lady who everyone called Strega Nona
this tells us which old lady we are talking about
this gives us extra information about the old lady
everyone called her Strega Nona which meant “Grandma Witch”
this tells us what Strega Nona means
this gives us extra information about Strega Nona
She made special potions for the girls who wanted husbands.
this tells us which girls we are talking about
this gives us extra information about the girls
Big Anthony, who didn’t pay attention, went to see her
this tells us who Big Anthony is
this gives us extra information about Big Anthony
The one thing that you must never do is touch the pasta pot
this tells us what the thing is
this gives us extra information about the thing
Strega Nona met with the people who came to see her for headaches and husbands and warts.
this tells us which people Strega Nona is meeting
this gives us extra information about the people
a pot that cooked pasta all by itself?
this tells us which pot we are talking about
this gives us extra information about the pot
she took a fork from a lady who was standing nearby
this tells us which lady it was
this gives us extra information about the lady
Saturday, October 12, 2024
My teachers and other experts aren’t wrong about the impact of smartphones on teens. Phones make us miserable, and I appreciate that my school is trying to address the problem. Honestly, I’d like to give up my phone, but the way our schools, jobs, teams, activities and social lives are set up makes it impossible. Locking up a phone for a class period is a start, but it barely makes a dent.I got my first smartphone when I was 13 years old, and I start doomscrolling as an automatic response to boredom or uneasiness. Inevitably I become stressed out that I’ve wasted so much time on mindless scrolling. To ignore my stress, I start doomscrolling again, and I’m trapped in a vicious cycle. It’s hard not to compare my life with the impeccably curated posts of total strangers, and it’s hard not to judge myself. In the past few years, I sometimes spent up to six hours a day on screens.After three years of having the app, I did finally delete TikTok during my sophomore year of high school. Not because I was spending almost five hours on it some days — that wasn’t reason enough for me to get rid of it. I only deleted it because my friend wouldn’t, and I wanted to prove that I could.For weeks, I clicked the icon where TikTok used to be and was sent to my calculator. I kept staring at the ceiling, unable to focus but also having no 15-second-video relief to fall back on.
The lawsuit claims TikTok's research found that after viewing 260 videos, a user likely became addicted to the platform.The company's studies also correlated "compulsive usage" with negative mental health effects, including "loss of analytical skills, memory formation, contextual thinking, conversational depth, empathy, and increased anxiety."While TikTok has implemented features to limit young users' screen time, including parental controls and a one-hour timeout, the documents suggest ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, did not seek to improve these tools despite knowing their limited effectiveness.
Model Text for Relative Clauses: Mike, the luckiest guy I know.
1. What does Mike’s mother make him every morning?
2. Where does Mike work?
3. What was Mike’s lifelong dream?
4. What does Mike do every morning?
5. Who did Mike ask out?
6. Who did Mike marry?
1. What does Mike’s mother make him every morning?
2. Where does Mike work?
3. What was Mike’s lifelong dream?
4. What does Mike do every morning?
5. Who did Mike ask out?
6. Who did Mike marry?
https://youtu.be/Dea5xzWypVQ?si=xB1I5U3oQ4Z6QgXI
This is Mike. Mike is the luckiest guy I know. We used to play together at the playground where we made friends with our older kids.
Mike's mother is a loving woman who makes him breakfast in bed every morning. Mike has a great job. He works at the top modeling agency in town, which he loves.
Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
One day Mike was walking to work when he found a million dollars on the ground. The very next day Mike quit his job and took a holiday to Hawaii which was his lifelong dream. Unfortunately, on his holiday Mike accidentally cut his finger when he was having dinner. Mike had to be hospitalized. Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
When Mike returned home from his holiday, he was broke. He had spent all the money that he had found. One day when Mike was jogging in the park, which he does every morning, he came up with a great idea. So the very next day, Mike planted a tree which grows money in his backyard. Mike is the most ingenious guy I know. Now that Mike's a trillionaire, there's only one thing that was missing in his life: a soulmate. So, the next day Mike went out and asked out the first girl that he saw. Barbara, who was the lucky girl, immediately said yes. It was a match made in heaven. Mike and Barbara were a perfect couple. Mike was a cool guy and Barbara, whose personality was fun and outgoing, was the perfect match. 3 Days later, Mike married Jessica, his new girlfriend. Jessica gave birth to a beautiful baby boy who grew up to be a handsome young lad and they lived happily ever after.
Combine these two sentences into one sentence:
1. Mike's mother is a loving woman. A loving woman makes him breakfast in bed every morning.
2. He works at the top modeling agency in town. He loves working at the top modelling agency in town.
3. Mike quit his job and took a holiday to Hawaii. Taking a holiday to Hawaii was his lifelong dream.
4. He had spent all the money. He had found the money.
5. One day when Mike was jogging in the park he came up with a great idea. Mike goes jogging in the park every morning.
6. Mike planted a tree in his backyard. The tree grows money.
7. Barbara immediately said yes. Barbara was the lucky girl.
8. Barbara was the perfect match. Barbara’s personality was fun and outgoing.
9. Jessica gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. The baby boy grew up to be a handsome young lad.
This is Mike. Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
(1)_________________________________________________________. Mike has a great job. (2)__________________________________________.
Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
One day Mike was walking to work when he found a million dollars on the ground. The very next day (3)_____________________________________________________. Unfortunately, on his holiday Mike accidentally cut his finger when he was having dinner. Mike had to be hospitalized. Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
When Mike returned home from his holiday, he was broke. (4)______________________________________________________ . (5)________________________________________________________ . So the very next day, (6)________________________________________. Mike is the most ingenious guy I know. Now that Mike's a trillionaire, there's only one thing that was missing in his life: a soulmate. So, the next day Mike went out and asked out the first girl that he saw. (7)___________________________________________. It was a match made in heaven. Mike and Barbara were a perfect couple. Mike was a cool guy and (8)________________________________________________________. Three Days later, Mike married Jessica, his new girlfriend. (9___________________________________________________ and they lived happily ever after.
Answers:
This is Mike. Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
(1)Mike's mother is a loving woman who makes him breakfast in bed every morning. Mike has a great job. (2)He works at the top modeling agency in town, which he loves.
Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
One day Mike was walking to work when he found a million dollars on the ground. The very next day (3)Mike quit his job and took a holiday to Hawaii which was his lifelong dream.
Unfortunately, on his holiday Mike accidentally cut his finger when he was having dinner. Mike had to be hospitalized. Mike is the luckiest guy I know.
When Mike returned home from his holiday, he was broke. (4)He had spent all the money that he had found. (5)One day when Mike was jogging in the park, which he does every morning, he came up with a great idea. So the very next day, (6)Mike planted a tree which grows money in his backyard. Mike is the most ingenious guy I know. Now that Mike's a trillionaire, there's only one thing that was missing in his life: a soulmate. So, the next day Mike went out and asked out the first girl that he saw. (7)Barbara, who was the lucky girl, immediately said yes. It was a match made in heaven. Mike and Barbara were a perfect couple. Mike was a cool guy and (8)Barbara, whose personality was fun and outgoing, was the perfect match. Three Days later, Mike married Jessica, his new girlfriend. (9)Jessica gave birth to a beautiful baby boy who grew up to be a handsome young lad and they lived happily ever after.