tailieunhanh - Book grammar for IELTS part 14

Tham khảo tài liệu 'book grammar for ielts part 14', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Relative clauses Grammar focus task Look at these extracts from the text. For each extract answer the following questions. 1 Do they contain defining or non-defining relative clauses 2 Which words or ideas do the relative pronouns refer to 3 Does the relative pronoun act as the subject or the object of the verb 1 Dr Chris Lambrides a research fellow at the University of Queensland is nearing the end of a project that aims to develop more drought-tolerant sunflowers by selecting flowers that use water more efficiently. 2 . the research team discovered that its initial approach did not cater for changes in wind speed which could not be controlled as an experimental variable. 3 It has a garage on the track where it waits until the light intensity is high enough to give useful results. 4 The main difficulty faced by the research group was to find an agronomist who could grow the perfect crop of sunflowers. 5 The team and their robot have already made a major breakthrough in the Australian wheat industry with Drysdale Wheat which signalled the arrival of a new technique for selecting drought-resistant species. 183 Ways of organising texts subject choice introductory it ellipsis organising information it- and what-clauses A Context listening E3 You are going to listen to a student interviewing a woman for a survey on shopping habits. Look at these questions. How would you answer them Super Market Store lUonmiiu How many times a week you do the shopping 2 I Listen and compare your answers with the woman in the interview. El Listen again and fill in the gaps. Underline the subject of each verb. 1 No .with my family - my husband and three children. 2 And how many times a food shopping 3 Oh . it on my own. the others . too many things in the trolley a fortune 4 .the food shopping on Thursdays to Wednesday people in the supermarket on Thursday than on Friday. 5 Well .it once . why