thanks in advance.

If sailing �s your hobby, you might consider The Leaving of Liverpool: "It �s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me...etc"

If it �s a clapping, skipping, chanting, spelling song you �re looking for, how about Bingo: "There was a farmer (who) had a dog and BINGO was his name-o...etc" (a cleft with there for a wee bit of variety). This can be easily adapted.

I �d imagine All that she wants is another baby... (Ace of Base) is not the kind of hobby you might want to focus on although there�s an interesting cleft. Then again, what age are your students?

 

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Cleft Sentences

A declarative sentence, such as David studied English at Oxford can be reformulated as:

It was David who studied English at Oxford

This is called a CLEFT SENTENCE because the original sentence has been divided (or "cleft") into two clauses: It was David and who studied English at Oxford. Cleft sentences focus on one constituent of the original sentence, placing it after it was (or it is). Here we have focussed on the Subject David, but we could also focus on the Direct Object English:

It was English that David studied at Oxford

or on the Adjunct at Oxford

It was at Oxford that David studied English

Cleft constructions, then, exhibit the pattern:

It + be + focus + clause