Page 169 - Real English 2024 Book 8

CITY LIGHTS

or whose. Non-restrictive relative clauses always have a comma before them. They will have a
comma after them if they are followed by other parts of the same sentence.

Dr David Paul, whose hospital is in the old city, comes to this clinic thrice a week.
Natasha met Dr Paul, who is their family doctor.
She took some red-coloured syrup, which had a sour taste.

The relative pronoun that is not used in non-restrictive relative clauses.
This temple, that which was built in the twelfth century, has three thousand pillars.
Naren’s new mobile phone, that which works on solar power, is a gift from his uncle.

D4 Complete the following sentences using non-restrictive relative clauses of your own.

1. Hindi, ________________________, is spoken in many parts of northern India.

2. Last week my uncle moved into his new flat, ________________________.
3. The little coastal town called Pelota, ________________________, is now an industrial city.
4. Further details about this project, ________________________, can be included later.

5. A.R. Rahman, ________________________, has worked on several international projects.

AGILE
LEARNING
D5. Guessing game

Divide the class into groups of four or five. Your teacher will give each group a set of cards. All
the groups will play the game in turns. Shuffle the cards and place them face down in a pile on a
table. A student from a group will pick up a card and describe the word on it using a relative clause
without revealing the word itself. The group member who guesses the word correctly first gets to
keep the card. Each student will take turns to pick a card from the pile and describe it. The student
with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

Make sure to use the relative pronouns who, whom, whose, which, that, and relative adverbs when
and where when describing the words.

E Interact

Listening

E1 Listen to the talk by an environmentalist and answer the following questions.

1. Are oceans the only places which have water?

2. Why do we need to conserve water when there is so much of it around?
3. Why is desalination not an option?
4. Why can we use only one per cent of all the water on Earth?

5. Where does the fresh water we use come from?

147