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Connect the Grammar to Writing

1 READ & NOTICE THE GRAMMAR.
A How do you treat a cold? Discuss your ideas with a partner. Then read the essay.

Cold Treatments

Around the World

How do you treat a cold? I asked people from all
over the world this question. They had many different
answers.
The first group of treatments I learned about is
made up of drinks. I spoke with a neighbor who is from
Italy. She makes a tea that has sage and bay leaves in
it. A Native American tea that my friend Deedee drinks
is made from herbs and honey. A classmate whose
grandparents are from Turkey also drinks tea with herbs
and honey when he has a cold.

The second group of treatments consists of different kinds of food. My neighbor Wu from
China eats a hot rice cereal she calls jook. The chicken soup that my friend Jason’s grandfather
from Hungary makes works well for him. The person whose remedy was most unusual was my
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friend Ray from Hawaii. He chews the bark of a tree that grows there.
The last group of treatments involves activities. For example, some people I know sit in a room
full of steam or take a hot shower. Some people put a hot stone on the place that hurts them. And
sitting or lying in the sun is a remedy that many people use, too.

1 bark: the skin of a tree

GRAMMAR FOCUS

In the essay in exercise A, the writer uses relative clauses to describe nouns.

I spoke with a neighbor who is from Italy.

He chews the bark of a tree that grows there.

B Read the essay in exercise A again. Underline the relative clauses and draw an arrow from
each clause to the noun it describes. Then work with a partner and compare your answers.

C In the text in exercise A, the writer first tells us the topic of the essay. Then she names three
groups within this topic and gives examples for each group. Complete the chart on page 317
with information from the essay.

316 RELATIVE CLAUSES
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