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Techniques for Teaching Adjectives and Adjective Clauses

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University of California, Irvine

Techniques for Teaching Adjectives and Adjective Clauses

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Cours 2 sur 4 dans Specialization Teach English: Intermediate Grammar

This is the second course in the Teach English: Intermediate Grammar specialization. In this course, you will learn how to effectively teach adjectives, adjective phrases, and adjective clauses to your students. You will learn what makes this grammar difficult for students and how to make it easier for them. You will also learn a variety of activities and methods for teaching this content in a fun and interesting way. You will have opportunities to practice the skills you learn by creating sample assignments and recording short videos of your teaching demonstrations. This course is designed for teachers or those wanting to become teachers who have a solid understanding of English grammar and want to improve their skills of teaching that grammar to others. Please note that the free version of this class gives you access to all of the instructional videos and handouts. The peer feedback and quizzes are only available in the paid version.

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Teaching Adjective Clauses

In the lessons this week, you will learn about teaching adjective clauses. You will hear suggestions for making this material easier for students to understand and ideas for fun practice activities. You'll also get the chance to practice what you've learned and get feedback on your lesson and video demonstration.

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Tamy Chapman
Instructor, International Programs
University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education
Meg Parker
Instructor, International Programs
University of California Irvine Extension
Brad Gilpin

This is the supervisor who likes to put Pete's marshmallows into the microwave.

>> Brad.

>> Mm, this is the coworker who loves cats.

>> Definitely Meg.

>> Mm, this is the coworker who likes to take succulents from public parks.

>> No one.

>> You.

>> It's a secret.

Shh.

>> Anyways so, as you can see we've been using adjective clauses to

describe our coworkers and that is the topic of today's video.

>> So what are adjective clauses anyway?

>> Well, as I mentioned in the overview video, they act like adjectives and

describe nouns but they contain adjective clause pronouns and also verbs.

>> Well I think it's good to mention that some teachers use the words

relative clause and relative clause pronouns instead of adjective clause or

adjective clause pronouns.

But they are the same.

>> I think when we were thinking about the sequence of what to introduce first,

we considered the fact that adjective clauses have different

rules depending on whether the noun in the main clause is a person or a thing.

And whether the adjective clause begins with a subject or an object pronoun.

Wow, that was a mouthful.

>> Yeah, let's show some examples.

We'll start with adjective clauses that begin with subject pronouns.

The instructor of that video gave many examples of adjective clauses describing

people and also adjective clauses describing things.

>> Personally, I feel that it is

easier to start with teaching adjective clauses with subject pronouns

before adjective clauses with object pronouns because the structure is simpler.

Within the adjective clause you have the subject pronoun plus a verb.

>> Yes, so I can easily tell students to finish sentences like,

I see a man who or I bought a gift which, and they can continue with a verb.

>> But teaching adjective clauses with object pronouns is more complicated.

Because following an object pronoun, there should be a subject and then a verb.

>> Let's not forget that for object pronouns it can be omitted.

>> Right, so it also makes sense to teach subject pronouns first so

students are comfortable with using them before they learn about omitting them

when they study object pronouns.

So Emily, what do you think of the sentence,

you are someone whom I've known for many years?

>> It sounds so strange.

No one uses whom in daily conversation anymore.

But I know we still teach it because it's still used in formal and academic writing.

>> Yes, I get a lot of students ask me if it's necessary to learn whom and

that's what I tell them basically.

>> There's another pronoun that students need to learn.

Let me give you a hint.

There's a girl whose hair is long and silky.

>> Me?

And you're talking about whose, the possessive pronoun.

>> Yes and structure wise, whose is always followed by a noun.

>> Whose, the possessive pronoun is not too difficult for students but

they sometimes confuse it with who's, the contraction for who is.

>> Yes, this is a very common mistake that teachers should point out.

That's why the instructor of that video, which by the way is you, gave

lots of examples of both scenarios to make sure students could differentiate them.

>> Okay, to wrap up, I want you to play the guessing game.

>> Okay, try me.

>> Mm, I'll give you three hints.

This is someone I enjoy working with very much.

>> Uh-huh.

>> And this is someone whose teaching skills impress me every day.

>> Uh-huh.

>> And this is someone who loves Hello Kitty.

>> Well that's easy.

Me.

>> Yep.

Adjective clauses can be a lot of fun to teach and learn.

>> Check out our activities for ideas that you can use with your students.

>> I'll see you in the next video.

Bye.

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