Your Brain Has a Filing System
Grammar: Relative Clauses
A Level 4 English lesson exploring education.
What's in this lesson
A Level 4 (upper intermediate) ESL lesson on education, practising relative clauses. The worksheet has a reading, target vocabulary, a grammar reference with practice and discussion questions.
From the reading: Your Brain Has a Filing System
Here is a question. You studied hard for an exam, scored well, and then — a month later — you could barely remember a thing. Sound familiar? This is not a personal failure. It is biology. The human brain, which did not evolve to sit in a classroom for six hours a day, is ruthlessly selective about what it keeps. And the rules it follows are not the ones most schools teach by.
Vocabulary
- catch up on
- mind goes blank
- pick up
- take in
Grammar: Relative Clauses
- which — whole clause
- She passed the exam, which surprised everyone. — which comments on the whole idea before the comma
- Hedging with which
- Sleep improves recall, which suggests schools should rethink homework. — softens a claim by adding it as comment
Discussion questions
- Will schools still look the same in twenty years?
- How will technology change the way we study?
- What do you think the classroom of 2045 will feel like?
Your Brain Has a Filing System
Grammar: Relative Clauses
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