Cleft Sentences — Beyond the Postcard: Europe's New Capitals
Grammar: Cleft sentences — full range
Free ESL grammar exercise on cleft sentences themed around beyond the postcard: europe's new capitals. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on travel, practising cleft sentences — full range. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
It is not Rome or Paris that dominates the conversation among experienced travellers anymore. What has shifted is not the quality of Europe's traditional capitals but the expectations of the people visiting them.
Grammar: Cleft Sentences
- It-cleft
- Puts emphasis on one element. It was the food that changed everything. Uses: it + be + focus + that-clause.
- Wh-cleft (what-cleft)
- Emphasises the predicate or outcome. What impressed us most was the silence. Uses: what-clause + be + focus.
Sample items
- It was the city's ______ that first attracted international chefs to Porto.
- ______ the travellers found most striking was the layering of Ottoman and Soviet architecture.
- It is Ljubljana's cycling infrastructure ______ rivals Copenhagen's.
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