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Participle clause

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reduced relative clauses
 
 
 
 

Participle clauses can be used instead of clauses with conjunctions
I picked up my bag and left the room. Two clauses with a conjunction. Picking up my bag, I left the room. The same idea with a participle clause. The subject of both clauses must be the sameRead more

 
 
 
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Participle clauses dominoes
C1
20-30 mins
groups: 3-4
 
 Twelve matching dominoes with example sentences showing different types of participle clause.
 
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Participle clauses - speaking activity
C1
 
Eight questions on general topics (personalization), each using a participle clause, to be read out and answered in groups. 'Having studied English for a number of years, what advice would you give a beginner?' etc.
 
 
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Participle clauses
C1
 
Matching - sentence segments + transformatin exercises. Sentences contain participle clauses showing time relationshi and 'reason and result'. Present and past time.
 
 
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Burglary story with participle clauses
C1
 
(1) Dominoes matching task to make a story about a break in. (2) Same text gapped for verb forms
 
 
 
 
How Donald Trump got rich - a tale of three Trumps
Lead-in: the Trump family. Jigsaw reading (graded English): Donald Trump, Fred Trump (father), Frederick Trump (grandfather). Grammar follow-up: participle clauses. (Advanced version).
 

 

 
 
 
Participle clause exercise 1
Twelve-question multiple-choice participle clause exercise. Tests the choice of active, passive and perfect participle clauses (Taking...Taken...Having taken...) and includes reduced relative clauses.(Advanced level - C1)
 
 

 

 
 
 
Reward Upper-intermediate Resource Pack book cover 
Reward Upper-intermediate Resource Pack
8b Encounters of a spooky kind  Page 8 
Ss in pairs dictate their half of a spooky story to make a complete text.
 
 
The Great Train Robbery
 
<i>Black Mirror</i>
 
Escape from the canyon