Unit 9. Natural disaters

Week: 31
Period: 61
Monday, March 15th, 2009
Unit 9: NATURAL DISASTERS
LESSON 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS
1. Relative clause: (mệnh đề liên hệ)
* Relative pronoun: (đại từ liên hệ)
+ Who : thay cho danh từ hoặc đại từ chỉ người
làm chủ ngữ ở mệnh đề liên hệ.
a) She is the woman. She keeps this library.
She is the woman who keeps this library.
b) The students are from Japan. They are next to Mary.
The students who are next to Mary are from Japan.
+ Which: thay cho danh từ hoặc đại từ chỉ vật
làm chủ ngữ hoặc tân ngữ ở mệnh đề
liên hệ.
Example:
a) Tet is a festival. Tet occurs in late January or early February.
Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February.
b) The picture was beautiful. She was looking at it.
The picture which she was looking at was beautiful.
* Relative adverb: (trạng từ liên hệ)
* Relative pronoun: (đại từ liên hệ)
* who:
person as subject.
* whom:
person as object
* which:
thing as subject or object
* where:
place
* when:
time
* whose:
possession
* that:
for both who or which
Which was struck by a huge earthquake in 1995 is Cobe
Which won the 1998 Tiger Cup is Singapore
Which has one or two horns on its snout is rhinoceros
Who discovered America is Christopher Columbus.
Which is closest to the earth is Venus
Which was chosen to be the logo of SEA Games 2003 is buffalo
Which is divided into two regions by the sea is Malaysia.
Which you can chew but you cannot swallow is the chewing gum
and the thing you can swallow but you can’t chew is water.
Andrew is flying to Sacramento, which is the capital city of California
It snowed in Lang Son,which is on the Ky Cung River, in the winter of 2002
Pompeii, which is an ancient city of Italia, was completely destroyed
in A.D. 79 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Hurricane Andrew, which swept through southern Florida in August 1992,
killed 41 people and made more than 200,000 homeless.
The cyclone of November 1970 in Bangladesh, which killed about
500,000 people, was one of the worst natural disasters of the 29th century.

The most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history, which occurred in 1923,
damaged Tokyo and Yokohama and killed about 150,000 people.
The October 1989 Loma Pieta earthquake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter
scale, cause extensive damage to older buildings in San Francisco Bay area.
3. Defining and non-defining relative clauses:
a) Defining relative clauses: (meänh ñeà lieân heä xaùc ñònh)
Defining relative clauses identify nouns, these clauses
tell us which person or thing the speaker means.
a) Non-defining relative clause: (meänh ñeà lieân heä khoâng xaùc ñònh)
Non-defining relative clauses give more information about a person or thing
already identified. When we write these clauses, we put commas at the
beginning of the clause (and often at the end of the clause).
The novel which you gave me on my birthday has been lost.
Viet Nam, which is in the Southeast Asia, exports rice
Note: * we cannot use “that” in a non-defining relative clause.
* In a non-defining relative clause we cannot leave out
who or which.
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HOMEWORK:
DO EXERCISES IN LANGUAGE FOCUS AGAIN.
REVISE UNIT 8 AND UNIT 9 FOR 45-MINUTE TEST.