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10B Participle clauses

A Rewrite the sentences, replacing the relative clauses with participle clauses.
1 The actor who stars in the film isn’t very well-known.
2 Shakespeare, who was born in 1564, is one of Britain’s most famous playwrights.
3 Do you know the sculptor who’s creating the piece?
4 I’ve never heard of the drama company that’s putting on the musical.
5 The Mousetrap, which has been performed over 23,000 times,
opened in 1952.
6 The actor who played the role of Romeo kept forgetting his lines.
7 The portrait of Alice, which was drawn by her niece, looks nothing
like her.
8 The photographer who had been hired for the wedding arrived late.

B Rewrite the underlined participle clauses as full-length relative clauses.


1 The name of the first album released by Katy Perry in 2008 was Teenage dream.
2 At her wedding in 2011, Kate Middleton wore a tiara belonging to Princess Diana.
3 In Li Wei’s Boxing, the men standing on the skyscraper are packing boxes.
4 The Four Seasons are violin concertos composed by Beethoven.
5 Stephenie Meyer, best known as author of the Twilight novels, was born in Canada.
6 The Academy Awards ceremony, held every year since 1949, attracts a huge TV audience.
7 KJ Rowling, worth over £500 million, is famous for writing the Harry Potter books.
8 Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci, shows a woman holding a baby.

C Work in pairs. In each sentence in B there is a mistake in the information given.


How many can you find and correct?

Solutions 2nd edition  Intermediate © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • PHOTOCOPIABLE


10B Participle clauses

Aims  To review and practise participle clauses


Time  10 minutes
Materials  1 handout for each student
• Give each student a copy of the handout and ask them to do
task A. Check answers as a class.
1 who stars starring
2 who was born
3 who’s creating
4 that’s putting on
5 which has been performed
6 who played playing
7 which was drawn
8 who had been hired
• Ask students to do task B. Check answers as a class.
1 which was released
2 , which (had) belonged
3 who are standing
4 which were composed
5 who is best known
6 which has been held
7 who is worth
8 which was painted, who is holding
• Divide the class into pairs and allow them time to complete
task C. Encourage them to take a guess at the ones they
don’t know. Check answers as a class.
1 The album was One of the Boys 5 She was born in the USA.
2 Queen Elizabeth II (not 6 since 1929
Princess Diana) 7 JK Rowling
3 The men are boxing 8 The woman is holding
4 They were composed by Vivaldi nothing.
• To increase motivation, task C could be done as a
competition. Set a time limit in which pairs must correct
as many of the mistakes as they can. Then tell them to
exchange handouts with another pair. Check the answers
as a class and tell them to award a point for every correct
answer. The pair with the most points are the winners.

Solutions 2nd edition  Intermediate © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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