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The Repair Cafe · Tutor Plan

The learner links examples to a feature’s central idea and uses defining relative clauses to identify people, objects, and places precisely.

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Lesson aim

Evidence to collect

The learner links examples to a feature’s central idea and uses defining relative clauses to identify people, objects, and places precisely.

Language lens

Identify the exact person or thing

Defining relative clauses add information that identifies a noun. Use who for people and that or which for things. The clause stays next to the noun it defines.

Suggested sequence

Timing

  1. 3 min · Discuss repair habits and practical skills.
  2. 5 min · Read for the project’s purpose and Carmen’s result.
  3. 4 min · Complete comprehension with evidence.
  4. 5 min · Notice and practice defining relative clauses.
  5. 4 min · Analyze the feature structure.
  6. 4–6 min · Produce a local feature or spoken response.

Anticipated problems

Watch and respond

  • The learner may summarize Carmen’s repair without explaining why the writer chose that example.
  • The learner may use which for people or separate the relative clause from the noun it identifies.
  • The environmental discussion may invite unsupported generalizations, so ask for one claim and one reason.

Short lesson

If time is limited

Read the opening and Carmen’s repair, answer questions one through three, practice two relative clauses, and give a short reaction.

Extended lesson

If the learner needs more

Ask the learner to interview the tutor as a volunteer and then report the answers as a short feature introduction using three relative clauses.

Controlled practice

Answer key and teaching evidence

  1. work-together · Owners stay, observe, and work with volunteers instead of leaving an object for paid service.
  2. mother · The lamp had belonged to Carmen’s mother and carried sentimental value.
  3. questions · Noor asked when the problem began and what Carmen had already tried.
  4. confidence · He wants visitors to gain confidence and question the idea that ordinary objects are disposable.
  5. objects-people · The cafe repairs objects while also building skills, confidence, and connections between people.
  6. who-repairs · Say The volunteer who repairs lamps is Noor.
  7. that-belonged · Say The lamp that belonged to her mother was blue.
  8. people-learn · Say People who attend the cafe often learn a skill.
  9. that-can · Say Objects that can be repaired should not go to landfill.

Review status

Tutor review required

This original reading and its generated pedagogy require tutor review and learner piloting before they can be described as formally reviewed.