English 11 unit 10 language focus

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Reordering the following sentences to make a complete
paragraph about Cuc Phuong national park.

1. It is famous for tropical forests, rare animals and
plants.
2. Cuc Phuong national park is located on 160 kilometers
south west of Hanoi.
3. It contains about 11 kinds of fishes, 97 kinds of
animals and 1944 kinds of plants.
4. The park covers an area of 22.200 hectare.
5. Visitors go to there to look at the 1000- year-old tree,
12000 year-old stone tools.

Answer: 2  1  4  3  5


Unit 10: NATURE IN DANGER
Period 66: Language focus


What is he/she doing?
1. Pronunciation

/sl/
1

/sm/
2

She is sleeping

He is smoking

/sn/

/sw/

She is sneezing

She is swimming

3

4


Activity 1: Listening and repeating

/sl/

/sm/

/sn/

/sw/

slave

small

snack

swallow

sleep

smart

sneeze

swim

slim

smell

snooker

swing

slowly

smoke

snowy

switch

Activity 2: Practicing reading dialogue

A: Is Snowy at home? Snowy Smith?
B: He is sleeping. Go away.
A: Sleeping? Where?
B: In there. Why do you smile?
A: Perhaps Snowy is in there. But he is not asleep.
B: I swear he is sleeping.
A: When Snowy sleeps, he snores but he looks
sweet.


2. Grammar:
a. Presentation: Relative pronouns with prepositions

She is the woman
She is the woman about
whom I told you about
about. whom
whom I told you.

She is the woman about whom I told you.
The relative pronoun with preposition


*Notes:
•A relative pronoun can be the object of preposition.
•Preposition can be put before whom or which, cannot be
put before who or that (formal English).

1.PERSON + WHO + V
WHOM + S (I, we, John…) +V
2.THING + WHICH + V
S (I, you, Mr. Pike…)+V
3.PERSON + preposition + WHOM
4.THING + preposition + WHICH
in which = where
for which = why


whom/that
Maryisistalking
talking
whom/that
Mary
isher
talking
to
1. The
woman is Mary’s mother . Mary
.
totoher.
Examples:
 The woman is Mary’s mother .
Or

 The woman to whom Mary is talking is her
mother.
2. This is the magazine.

II talked
yesterday.
talked about
about it yesterday.
which/that

This is the magazine which/that I talked about yesterday.
Or

 This is the magazine about which I talked yesterday.


Exercise 1 : Choose the suitable italicised words to complete the
following sentences

1. To who / whom it may concern .
2. It was a service for which / that I was grateful .
3. The success of a shared holiday depends on who / whom
you share it with .
4. Do you like the person who / whom sits next to you ?
5. Midway through the second half , Manchester United
scored their third goal , at that / which point Leeds
United gave up completely .
6. There is one person to whom / who I owe more
than I can say .
7. It was the kind of accident for which / that nobody
was really to blame.


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Exercise 3 : Completing the following sentences, using who,
whom, which or that

1. Jack is the one that I miss most.
2. It was a kind of computer with which I was not
familiar .
3. Do you get on with the person who/ that lives next
door ?
4. I must thank the man from
I got the present .
whom
5. It is an event
I would rather forget.
which/ that
6. The meeting to
I went was interesting .
which
7. The person
did it was never caught.
who/ that
8. That’s the woman to
Jim used to married.
whom


Do exercises in handout
Prepare the next lesson: Unit 11 - Reading

1. The man was very kind. I talked
to him yesterday.
 The man to whom I talked yesterday
was very kind.


2. I’ll give you the address.
You should write to it.
 I’ll give you the address to which you
should write.



4. The woman teaches me English.
I am telling you about her.
 The woman about whom I am telling
you teaches me English.


5. The movie is fantastic. They are
talking about it.
 The movie about which they are
talking is fantastic.


6. The man works in the hospital.
I told you about him.
 The man about whom I told you
works in the hospital.

Examples:
1. She is the woman. I told you about her.
 She is the woman about whom I told you.
2. The song was interesting. We listened to it last
night
 The song to which we listened last night was
interesting