Cleft sentences & inversion — The Festivals Nobody Talks About
Grammar: Fixed expressions and collocations in cultural discourse
Free ESL grammar exercise on cleft sentences & inversion themed around the festivals nobody talks about. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on culture, practising fixed expressions and collocations in cultural discourse. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Academics who study the carnival note that it is, in effect, a compressed history of an entire civilisation told through costume and rhythm.
Grammar
- It-cleft
- Stresses one element. It was the young people who started it. — use It + be + stressed element + who/that
- Wh-cleft
- Fronts the key information. What makes it special is the layering of traditions. — use What + clause + be + noun
Sample items
- The spontaneous mischief started everything. ______ the spontaneous mischief that started everything.
- The way Oruro layers traditions makes it unique. ______ makes Oruro unique is the way it layers traditions.
- Rarely ______ the festival attract so little media attention despite its scale.
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