Unit 5 · Reduced Clauses & Phrasal Verbs

Gold Experience B1+ — 2 warm-ups • 6 activities (medium / hard / very hard) • 1 reading

Part A — Warm-ups

Warm-upReduced clauses

Cut It Down

Click the words you can delete to reduce the relative clause. Click again to bring a word back. Only click what really can disappear.

Warm-upPhrasal verbs

Particle Sprint

One verb, one meaning, four particles. Choose fast.

Part B — Reduced relative clauses

The rule in three lines

Passive reduction: who / which / that + be disappears and the past participle stays → the homework which was set on Monday → the homework set on Monday.
Active reduction: the pronoun disappears and the verb becomes -ing → people who live in cities → people living in cities.
No reduction when the pronoun is the object (the book which I bought) or when you have whose.

MediumActivity 1

Shorten the Sentence

Rewrite each sentence with a reduced relative clause. Keep every other word the same.

HardActivity 2

Reducible or Not?

Some of these relative clauses can be reduced and some cannot. Decide before you look at the explanation.

Very hardActivity 3

Join Them Up

Combine the two sentences into one, using a reduced clause or a participle clause. There is more than one good answer for some items.

Part C — Phrasal verbs

MediumActivity 4

Right Verb, Right Tense

Complete each sentence with a phrasal verb from the box, in the correct tense. Use each one once.
look up • hand in • catch up • go over • put off • take up

HardActivity 5

Where Does the Pronoun Go?

Only one sentence in each group is correct English. Separable or inseparable: that is the whole question.

Very hardActivity 6

Key Word Transformations

Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use the key word and write between two and five words. Contractions count as two words.

Part D — Reading comprehension

ReadingHard

The Year I Stopped Putting Things Off

Answer the six questions. Two of them are about the highlighted language.