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    10B Participle clauses

    A Rewrite the sentences, replacing the relative clauses with participle clauses.
    1 The actor who stars in the film isn’t very well-known.
    2 Shakespeare, who was born in 1564, is one of Britain’s most famous playwrights.
    3 Do you know the sculptor who’s creating the piece?
    4 I’ve never heard of the drama company that’s putting on the musical.
    5 The Mousetrap, which has been performed over 23,000 times,
    opened in 1952.
    6 The actor who played the role of Romeo kept forgetting his lines.
    7 The portrait of Alice, which was drawn by her niece, looks nothing
    like her.
    8 The photographer who had been hired for the wedding arrived late.

    B Rewrite the underlined participle clauses as full-length relative clauses.


    1 The name of the first album released by Katy Perry in 2008 was Teenage dream.
    2 At her wedding in 2011, Kate Middleton wore a tiara belonging to Princess Diana.
    3 In Li Wei’s Boxing, the men standing on the skyscraper are packing boxes.
    4 The Four Seasons are violin concertos composed by Beethoven.
    5 Stephenie Meyer, best known as author of the Twilight novels, was born in Canada.
    6 The Academy Awards ceremony, held every year since 1949, attracts a huge TV audience.
    7 KJ Rowling, worth over £500 million, is famous for writing the Harry Potter books.
    8 Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, shows a woman holding a baby.

    C Work in pairs. In each sentence in B there is a mistake in the information given.


    How many can you find and correct?

    Solutions 2nd edition  Intermediate © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • PHOTOCOPIABLE


    10B Participle clauses

    Aims  To review and practise participle clauses


    Time  10 minutes
    Materials  1 handout for each student
    • Give each student a copy of the handout and ask them to do
    task A. Check answers as a class.
    1 who stars starring
    2 who was born
    3 who’s creating
    4 that’s putting on
    5 which has been performed
    6 who played playing
    7 which was drawn
    8 who had been hired
    • Ask students to do task B. Check answers as a class.
    1 which was released
    2 , which (had) belonged
    3 who are standing
    4 which were composed
    5 who is best known
    6 which has been held
    7 who is worth
    8 which was painted, who is holding
    • Divide the class into pairs and allow them time to complete
    task C. Encourage them to take a guess at the ones they
    don’t know. Check answers as a class.
    1 The album was One of the Boys 5 She was born in the USA.
    2 Queen Elizabeth II (not 6 since 1929
    Princess Diana) 7 JK Rowling
    3 The men are boxing 8 The woman is holding
    4 They were composed by Vivaldi nothing.
    • To increase motivation, task C could be done as a
    competition. Set a time limit in which pairs must correct
    as many of the mistakes as they can. Then tell them to
    exchange handouts with another pair. Check the answers
    as a class and tell them to award a point for every correct
    answer. The pair with the most points are the winners.

    Solutions 2nd edition  Intermediate © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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