Look at the picture and answer the questions.

- What do you see in the picture?
- Have you seen this in your locality? Where?
- What is it used for?
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Now, listen to the audio and complete the sentences. Use one word only.
- The Panama Canal connects the pacific and the ocean.
- The began to construct the canal in 1881.
- Almost people died while building the canal.
- The USA handed the canal to Panama in .
- Every year, almost 40,000 come through the canal.
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