IELTS Preparation Series 1, Episode 8: Crocodile Tourism

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Hello. Welcome again to Study English, IELTS preparation. I'm Margot Politis.

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Today we'll look at some words that cause a lot of confusion - the relative pronouns

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'that', 'which' and 'who', and then we'll do some pronunciation practice.

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But first, let's listen to some people talk about a very dangerous tourist attraction

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from Australia's Northern Territory.

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People have always been fascinated with death. Most of the mysteries that you see on television,

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the films that you see, involve murder in one kind or another. Crocodiles are one of

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the last remaining dinosaurs and the idea of a crocodile coming out of the water and

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grabbing somebody is absolutely riveting.

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I read about the death of the German tourist who was taken by a crocodile. It didn't put

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me off coming to the Northern Territory, quite the opposite in fact.

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I think the NT is famous for its crocodiles and probably quite famous for its crocodile

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attacks and that tourists who come here would like to be, or feel as though they were, involved

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in that danger.

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Tourists want to have a story to take home and if they can say that they were in the

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Northern Territory where the German tourist was taken by the croc, then it adds to their

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own adventure.

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So he thinks people may actually be attracted to the Northern Territory because of the dangerous

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crocodiles.

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But now we're going to leave the crocodiles, and talk about something else that can be

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dangerous - the relative pronouns 'who', 'which' and 'that'.

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Listen for some relative pronouns here.

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People have always been fascinated with death. Most of the mysteries that you see on TV,

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the films that you see, involve murder of one kind or another.

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I read about the death of the German tourist who was taken by a crocodile.

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Most of the mysteries 'that' you see on TV involve murders.

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I read about the death of the tourist 'who' was taken by a crocodile.

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Relative pronouns are used to introduce relative clauses.

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They give more information about a subject.

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The subject here is 'mysteries'.

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The 'that clause' gives us more information about the subject - 'the mysteries t