Relative Pronouns

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Methodological Worksheet-

Unit 6: Where the heart is

English Department- Miss Débora Pinto P.

Name:_______________________________________________3° Grade_____Date:_______________________________

CMO: Relative pronouns and relative clauses

Reading Comprehension

Nostalgic Don Guevara, who talked too much

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Read the following Paragraph:

Nostalgic DonGuevara, _______________________________________________________

Just the other day, I was talking to this guy (1) _______________________________________.

He had never imagined that his daughter would move so far away from Peru, so he was obviously quite sad. This gentleman, (2) _______________________________________ was so happy because his daughter finally sent him an update on how shewas doing there. One of the first things she mentioned was how she loved living in a country (3) _______________________

_____________ and how she was never bored. She also had told him how she had already met a really good-looking young man (4) _________________________________________________

___________________. This meant that she was probably partying like a rock star, but I kept thatthought to myself so he wouldn’t get worried. Upon telling me this, he seemed a little concerned about his daughter (5) _____________________________________. Nevertheless, he wanted to support her in her new life and treat her like a responsible woman, not like an irresponsible little girl. Our conversation continued for a good two hours about his daughter (6)___________________________________________. Mr. Guevara started become rather nostalgic and felt that it was necessary to tell me about his past; me being the nice person that I am, lent him my ears. He started going on about how he remembered January 27th, 1972, (7) _________________________________________________________. Mr. Guevara went into a little too much detail for my liking, but I could see how much he enjoyedreminiscing, so I offered to buy him a beer to make myself a bit more comfortable. He told me all about the hospital (8) _______________________________________ and the doctor (9) ______________

_________________________________________________. He went on and on about many pointless details, (10) ________________________________________, and I think at one moment, I actually started daydreaming aboutflying pigs (11) ___________________________

__________________________________________. To make a long story short, I learned a lot about this Don Guevara’s life and his daughter. I got his email address and he has invited me to his house this weekend to meet his daughter, (12) _____________________________________

_____________________. Overall, he was a very nice guy, but just liked to talka lot.





Complete the paragraph, using the sentences below.





























Post- Reading Activities

1. Answer the following questions:

a. What problem Don Guevara did tell about her daughter?



b. What happened to Don Guevara´s daughter when she changed her country?

c. How Don Guevara did describe to the partner of herdaughter?



d. Can you explain the following expression: “ I actually started daydreaming about flying pigs”?







Grammar: Relative Clauses

Exercises

| Choose one of the following relative pronouns who, which or whose |
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|1) I talked to the girl ____________car had broken down in front of the shop. |
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|2) Mr...