Reduced Relative Clauses - Grammar Practice
A B2 lesson on reduced relative clauses, with contextual examples, grammar guidance, controlled practice and space for written answers. Includes an answer key and teacher notes.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Contextual examples and grammar guidance
- Choose, complete and rewrite activities
- Space for written answers
- Answer key and teacher notes on page 3
Describe nouns concisely using active and passive participle phrases.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use learner pages 1–2; keep the answer key on page 3 separate until feedback.
- Read the workshop directions and contrast people waiting with a door marked and forms attached.
- Complete the active/passive participles and reduce the specified subject relative clauses.
- Describe a scene for a partner to identify, then expand a phrase into a full relative clause.
Support and extension
Use -ing for active and past participles for passive meaning. Context supplies time; do not mechanically reduce an object relative such as the person who I met.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
