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Unit 15 / Session 5 / Activity 2

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1)
What are the ‘blue plaques’? They are signs that honour famous people who have lived and/or
worked in London.
Correct
Correct – well remembered!

2)
Complete the sentence with the correct word: Handel was a German composer ______ wrote
many operas in 18th Century London. who
Correct
Correct

3)
Complete the sentence with the correct word: You can see the piano ______ Handel played
in the Handel House Museum. which
Correct
Correct

4)
Complete the sentence with the correct word: Gravity is the invisible force ______ keeps us
on Earth. that
Correct
Correct

5)
Complete the sentence with the correct word: A blue plaque near BBC Broadcasting House
shows us the house ______ Virginia Woolf lived. where
Correct
Right answer! Well done.

6)
Complete the sentence with the correct word: London is a city ______ has been home to
many famous people and events. which
Correct

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Correct – the whole city has been home to famous people so we use ‘which’.

7)
Complete the sentence with the correct word: I am going to Paris with my friends next week,
______ we will visit all the famous sites. where
Correct
Correct – there is a preposition and a time clause after Paris so the relative clause must come after.

8) Where is the Handel House Museum located? In the house where Handel lived until he died.
Correct
Yes! Right answer!

9)
What is special about the front room in Handel’s house? It is the place where he practiced and
gave special performances for his friends.
Correct
Correct

10)
What is special about the apartment which is next to the Handel Museum? It is the place
where Jimi Hendrix lived almost 250 years later.
Correct
Yes! I wonder if he knew Handel had lived in the same building…

11) Is the following sentence right or wrong? “This is the town which I was born.” Wrong
Correct
Yes – we should say ‘the town where I was born’.

12)
Is the following sentence right or wrong? “Logie Baird was the man that invented the TV.”
Right
Correct
Yes – we can use ‘that’ instead of ‘who’ here.

13)
Is the following sentence right or wrong? “Florence Nightingale worked at St. Thomas’s
hospital, where she started a nursing school.” Right
Correct
Correct – she started a nursing school in the hospital so we can use ‘where’.

14)
Is the following sentence right or wrong? “The guitar that Hendrix used it at Woodstock is
now in a museum in Seattle.” Wrong
Correct

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Yes – we should remove ‘it’ from this sentence.

15)
Is the following sentence right or wrong? “Have you seen the new phone Rob who bought?”
Wrong
Correct
Yes – we have used the wrong relative pronoun in the wrong place! We should say “Have you seen
the new phone which Rob bought?”

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