Step 47: The Man Who…

📖 Read — Tell Me Exactly Who

Ethan is describing people and things to his new friend David. “The man who lives next door is a doctor. The woman who teaches us English is Miss Taylor. And the boy that sits behind me is Tom — he's the one who makes everyone laugh.”

“What about things?” asks David. “The book which is on the table is mine,” says Ethan. “And this is the phone that I bought last year. A phone is a thing that helps you talk to the world. Oh — and a neighbor is a person who lives near you. Now you try!”

🔊 Listen to the text

🧩 Grammar — Relative Clauses — Who, Which, That

Join two sentences into one with a relative pronoun: who for people, which for things, that for people AND things (very common in American English). The pronoun does the job of the second subject — don't repeat it: The man who lives next door (NOT 'who he lives').

• The teacher who helps us is kind.
• The book that I read was great.
• A cashier is a person who works in a shop.
• The house which stands on the corner is ours.

🏗️ Key structures

• The man / woman who ___ — The woman who lives upstairs is a nurse.
• The book / phone that ___ — The phone that I want is expensive.
• A ___ is a person who ___ — A farmer is a person who grows food.

⭐ Idiom & natural phrases

🔤 New words

🎧 Say it with me

The man who lives next door is a doctor. The woman who teaches us is Miss Taylor, and this is the phone that I bought last year.

🔊 Listen & repeat

🎤 Your turn to speak

Describe three people or things precisely: the person who…, the thing that…, and define one job with 'A … is a person who…'.

Say it out loud three times. Even better: record it on your phone and listen — your ear is your best teacher.

✍️ Your turn to write

Write 4 sentences with relative clauses: two about people (who), two about things (which/that).

Self-check: capital letters? Full stops? Did you use the grammar of this step?

📝 Quick check