Unit5 grammar

(The Attributive Clause: where, when, why, prep.＋which/ whom)

Aims

To help students learn about attributive clause introduced by when, where, why, and prep.+ which/ whom

To help students discover and learn to use some useful words and expressions

To help students discover and learn to use some useful structures

Procedures

I. Warming up

Warming up by discovering useful words and expressions

Turn to page 35 and do exercises No. 1 and 2. Check your answers against your classmates'.

II. Learning about grammar

1.Reading and thinking

Turn to page 34. Read the text of ELISA' STORY and find out all the attributive clauses.

Think over this question: On what circumstance do we use when/ where/ why to introduced an attributive clause? ("Where" is used when the antecedent refers to a place, and "when" is used for time. "Why " is used when the antecedent is "why".)

For reference:

The time when I first met Nelson Mandela was a very difficult period of my life.

The school where I studied only tow years was three kilometers away.

This was a time when you had got to live in Beijing.

The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the happiest days of my life.

We have reached a stage where we have almost no rights at all.

The parts of town where they lived were places decided by white people.

The places where they were sent to live were the poorest areas in South Africa. 2.Comparing and discovering

Turn to page 36. Do Ex. 1. Then compare the following sentences and find out why we use different words to introduce the attributive clauses while the antecedents are the same.

a. The government building where we voted was very grand.

b. The government building which/ that we paid a visit to yesterday was very grand.

c. The government building in which we voted was very grand.

In sentence a), a relative adverb "where" is used because it refers to "in the government building" which serves as the adverbial in the attributive clause. "in which" can also be used as in sentence c) because it also means "in the government building" in the attributive clause. While in sentence b), a