Grammar in context 1
Defining relative clauses 1
Join the sentences using defining relative clauses. Make any necessary changes. 1 Jansen and Korsten were the men. They invented footgolf. Jansen and Korsten were the men who invented footgolf. 2 He was chasing a ball on a bike. He invented cycleball.
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Match the halves to make sentences. 1 My bike is one thing 2 I have a friend at school 3 This is a photo of the beach 4 Saturday is the day 5 I love watching extreme sports 6 2016 was the year 7 My sister is usually the skier a which involve snow. b who goes down the slope the fastest. c when the Summer Olympics were in Rio. d where I trained in the sand. e that I couldn’t live without. f whose cousin won the BMX championships. g when most matches are played.
3 Australia is a country. Its national sport is cricket.
4 Adi Dasler was the man. He made trainers famous.
5 NIKE is a company. It makes athletic clothing.
Grammar challenge
5 Read the article. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) for each gap.
Complete the sentences with the correct
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relative pronoun. 1 Kaufmann is the circus artist
BOSSABALL A SPORT WITH A SAMBA TWIST!
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artistic cycling. 2 The Marathon des Sables is the only official marathon is run entirely on sand. 3 Wimbledon is still the only place major tennis championships are played on grass. 4 I’ve got a friend dad is a coach. 5 Can you remember the year Usain Bolt set a new 100 m record? pronoun can be omitted. 1 Lee Valley is a place where you can play rush hockey. 2 Anyone whose parent is a coach will know more about sport. 3 She showed me the silver medal which she had brought back from South Africa. 4 This was the hotel that we stayed in while we competed in South Korea. 5 Snowboarding is a winter sport which has become very popular. 6 A bicycle that has been customised for artistic cycling is expensive. 7 The bike which she used for the race was highly customised. 8 Do you remember when Beth fell off her bike? Choose the sentences where the relative Learning from your mistakes Everyone makes mistakes! The important thing is to work on them to help you improve. Always identify the kind of mistake, e.g. grammatical form, spelling, meaning. This will help you get it right next time and work out what areas to focus on. Great students’ tip
Bossaball is a crazy sport (1) is a mixture of football, volleyball and gymnastics. It was a young Belgian (2) created bossaball in 2004. Filip Eyckmans developed the sport when he (3) living in Spain in 2004. It’s a sport (4) is played on a rectangular inflatable volley court with a huge trampoline in the middle. The trampoline (5) used to bounce incredibly high in the air so a team can hit the ball into their opponent’s court area. The rules are similar to volleyball. Points (6) scored if their opponents can’t return the ball. The two teams usually have (7) three and five players. The players are allowed to use (8) part of their body, and teams can hit the ball five times before returning it their opponents’ side. Tournaments have (9) held throughout the world. In November 2015, the largest event in Bossaball history (10) played in the football stadium in Bogotá, Colombia.
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1 a than 2 a who
b which b whose
c what c whom
3 a is
b has been
c was c this
4 a what 5 a was 6 a are 7 a near 8 a some 9 a been
b that
b is
c didn’t
b aren’t b around
c can
c between
b any
c all
b already
c just c were
10 a is
b was
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