Non-defining relative clauses — Who Learns Better: Teacher or Student in Charge?
Grammar: Relative Clauses
Free ESL grammar exercise on non-defining relative clauses themed around who learns better: teacher or student in charge?. Printable worksheet from EnglishPlans.com.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL grammar exercise on education, practising relative clauses. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
On one side stand direct instruction advocates, who argue that structured teaching is the most reliable way to build foundational knowledge.
Grammar: Relative Clauses
- Non-defining: form
- John Hattie, who compiled 1,400 studies, changed how teachers think. — commas required; adds extra info
- which / whose
- The Ontario trial, which involved 14,000 students, ran for one year. — use which for things, never that
Sample items
- Maria Montessori, ______ method focused on child-led exploration, opened her first school in Rome in 1907.
- The new curriculum, ______ was introduced across all state schools last year, places greater emphasis on collaborative work.
- Ken Robinson, ______ gave one of the most-watched TED talks ever recorded, argued that schools kill creativity.
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