2. Canada is the country that Paco chose to visit next

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As you know, Paco has landed in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. Have a look at this video about the city and listen to the girl.


Listen to it as many times as you need and then answer the true or false questions in the next exercise.


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Listen to the video as many times as you need and then decide if the statements below are true or false.


1. Ottawa is the largest city in Canada.

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2. Queen Victoria is the person who chose Ottawa as the capital city of Canada in 1857.

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3. The city receives a lot of snow between September and April.

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4. The high humidity is an issue that irritates people in Ottawa.

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5. The Peace Tower is a national symbol which is part of the Parliament Buildings.

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6. People can't travel on the Canal.

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7. The Dutch Royal Family are the people who sent tulips as a present.

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8. Ottawa's Canadian Museum of Civilization is a place which traces over 1000 years of Canadian history.

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9. Canada is home to the fourth largest collection of mazes.

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10. The biggest problem in Ottawa is deciding what to do.

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Now have a look at the sentences used in the true-false activity. Some of these sentences are examples of relative clauses. You can identify them through the relative pronouns who, that or which.

What are the sentences containing relative clauses?

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Let's study defining relative clauses. Compare these two sentences:

The man who is in the photo is my brother.

The Peace Tower, which is part of the Parliament Buildings, is a national symbol.

1- What is the difference between them?

2- We have seen three different relative pronouns. Which one do we use to talk about people? Which one do we use to talk about things? Which one can we use to talk about both people or things?


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If you want to learn more about relative clauses, have a look at this website.

Self-Assessment activity
Are these defining relative clauses correct (true) or incorrect (false)?


1. The woman which lives next door is very nice.
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2. The woman, who lives next door is very nice.

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3. The woman who lives next door is very nice.

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4. The woman that lives next door is very nice.

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Let's learn about reported speech in the next section.
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