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London!
(Elementary
- Intermediate)
Sarah Johnson and Jane Myles
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Contents
Elementary (Students with up to 1 year of English)

This is London: map

prepositions: between, near; numbers

Listening

6

Arriving in London

compass
  points: north, south, east, west; airport vocabulary

8

London Transport

numbers; buying a ticket

Reading and speaking

10

Going by Tube

present simple; colours; prepositions; between, along,
  in, through, near, under

Reading; colouring

12

The London Eye

numbers; measurements; prices

Reading and speaking

The Tower of London

numbers; has got

Reading and writing

16

The River Thames

prepositions

Listening and following a route

18

London Football Clubs

superlatives; personal statistics; chants

Reading and comparing statistics

20

Madame Tussauds

looks like; possessives

22

Buckingham Palace

rooms and furniture vocabulary

Writing about your home

24

The London Butterfly House

colours; modal can

Reading; colouring

25

Hamleys

ordinal numbers;
Where is... ? / Where are... ?

Reading and role play

26

Harrods

modal: can; asking for a refund

Speaking; making a complaint

28

London Markets

superlatives; How much is / are...
  ? Can
  you... ?

Demonstrating physical skills

30

London's Theatreland

1st conditional; booking a ticket

Speaking; role play

32

Dogs in London

basic descriptions; has got

Role play; dialogues

34

Eating Out: London Food

ordering food in a restaurant;
  nationalities

Reading and speaking

36

e Pre-intermediate (Students with 1-2 years of English)

Everyday Londoners statistics; enquiring about a job on
Writing an e-mail home; 38 the telephone Speaking: a job interview

The Boat Race

comparatives;
  superlatives; ago; have to, must

Reading; gap fill

40

Wimbledon:
The Home of Tennis

tennis vocabulary; must / mustn't

Reading; multiple choice exercise

42

Theme Parks Around London

must; 1st conditional; some, any, no, lots, a few

Reading; gap fill

44

City Animals

present simple tense; superlatives

Speaking; ranking

46

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The London Aquarium

can; adverbs in -ly; reflexives; like + -ing

Reading; gap fill

47

London Zoo

past simple; multi-words verbs

Reading; maze

48

EastEnders

talking about towns, buildings, facilities

Writing and group work: creating a TV script

50

The London Marathon

daily routine

Reading + fitness quiz

52

Notting Hill and the Carnival

going to future

Writing + planning a visit to the Carnival

54

Intermediate (Students with 2-3
  years of English)

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Leicester Square:
London cinemas

a great
  deal, a couple of, plenty of, a few several, a bit of;
  allowed to

Writing + identifying celebrities

56

Music in London

will / going to future; ordinal numbers

Reading; gap fill

57

Party in the Park

past perfect; too + adj. + to do something, not + adj enough to do
  something

Reading

58

The Lord Mayor's Show

passives; numbers and dates

Reading; Mathmatics

59

Legendary
  Londoners:
Dick Whittington, Sherlock Holmes and Samuel Pepys

question
  tags; past tense; making conclusions using must be, can't
  be, must have been, can't have been

Reading; writing; deduction

60

Cockney Rhyming Slang

London slang; body vocabulary

Reading

62

The British Museum

compound adjectives

Reading: gap-fill

63

Hampton Court

2nd conditional; past tense

Logic puzzle; problem-solving

64

The London Dungeon

passives

Reading; multiple choice

66

Westminster and the
Houses of Parliament

past simple; multi-word verbs

Reading: gap-fill

68

Guy Fawkes and
The Gunpowder Plot

multi-word verbs; simple past

Reading + multiple choice

69

London Parks

used to

Reading; gap fill

70

Art in London

passives

Reading

71

Pubs and Clubs

allowed to; irregular past tense

Reading; gap fill

72

Greenwich

telling the time

Reading; code-breaking

73

Charles Dickens

past tense; used to

Reading; crossword

74

Teacher's
Answer
Section
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Teacher's Notes and
Background Information

Key to symbols:
O Elementary
(students with up to 1 year of English)
Pre-intermediate
(students
with 1-2 years of English)
Intermediate
(students
with 2-3 years of English)
The clock symbol at the top of each new topic indicates
approximately how many minutes the reading section and extension activity
should take.

Most of the pages in this book will need
no further explanation. The elementary pages contain interactive sections of
text alongside short reading passages. In the later pre-intermediate and
intermediate pages, there is usually a reading page on the left and an
exploitation page on the right-hand side, but occasionally a onepage topic
which contains combined factual text and an integrated exercise.
The levels
The language used in the book extends from
elementary level through to intermediate. In some cases, the grammatical
structures will be simple, but the vocabulary may be a bit more obscure which
is why you may find a page classified under pre-intermediate rather than
elementary level.
Follow-up projects
Where possible we have
included website addresses so that you can do further research. However,
as always, please be warned that although the sites were checked before going
to press, the nature of websites and their content can change or the entire
site may become inactive.
The vocabulary check lists
You will notice that there are short
vocabulary check lists accompanying each topic. We suggest that before you
begin a topic, you photocopy the word check list or copy it onto the board to
see if students can predict what they think the topic is going to be. Take a
vote to see what the majority of students think it is. If there are several
different suggestions, see if the students representing one opinion can
persuade others from a
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different group by giving reasons for certain words
being in the list. At this stage they don't have to translate all the words in
the list. The meanings of some of the words will be deduced from their context
in the reading passage.
You can allocate one word from the check
list to each student in advance of the lesson, and then get them to explain to
the rest of the class what it means and how it is pronounced.
Using the map
On pages 6 & 7 you will find a rough map of London
which tries to include as many of the locations mentioned in this book as
possible. Those which are too far from the centre are indicated with
directional arrows.
Using the key to the map (on page 5), you can practise
numbers as well as teaching your students a lot of basic London geography.
Ask, for example:
Can you see number 4 on the map?
Which other numbers are near it? (5 and 6) Which
two places/numbers is it between?
Students can then guess what they think it might be.
Alternatively, you could ask:
What number do you think the Tower of London is? and see
how many students get it right.
You can enlarge the map on a photocopier
and this will then give students a bit more space to write in the names of the
places next to the numbers if you call them out as a dictation exercise.
As further extension work, get students to
work with actual maps of London and see what other landmarks they can identify
and add to their own photocopied maps, eg 10, Downing Street, the home of the
Prime Minister, Covent Garden, Baker Street, or Waterloo Station.
Once you have done quite a lot of pages from the book,
you could ask students to look at their copies of the map and ask people to
talk for a few minutes about 'number...' on the map, since they will have
learned quite a lot of facts by doing the activities in this book, eg, Anna,
can you talk for five minutes about number 3?
If the nominated student is struggling to
remember or to put their thoughts into English, you can ask for other
volunteers to help them out.

1
2
3
4
  5 6
7
8
9 10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18

Heathrow Airport
The London Eye
The Tower of
London
Big Ben
Houses of Parliament
Westminster Abbey The
  Natural History
Museum
Madame Tussaud's Buckingham Palace
Tate Modern
Tate Britain
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
Hamleys
Harrods
Portobello Road
Piccadilly Circus
Leicester Square

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31 32
33
  34 35 36 37

Oxford Street
Chinatown
Wimbledon
Battersea
London Aquarium
London Zoo
Regent's Park
Hyde Park
Richmond Park
St Paul's
  Cathedral
Notting Hill
The British Museum Hampton Court
The London
Dungeon
The Science
  Museum
Greenwich
Royal Albert Hall
Festival Hall
HMS Belfast

Background information
History
The history of London as a permanent
settlement stretches back almost two thousand years. The city has no known
founder. Shortly after the Roman conquest of 43 AD, the invaders grasped the
strategic significance of the River Thames, slicing through the flattest, most
fertile portion of their new province, its estuary providing easy access to the
European mainland. Londinium, as it was then known, became a thriving city.
With
the collapse of Roman administration, Londinium was abandoned in the
fifth century. The invading Anglo-Saxons were farmers who gradually pushed the
native Romano-British westwards. They had no taste for city life and preferred
to found villages which are now
London's suburbs or satellites such as Fulham, Mitcham,
Ealing and Barking.
The Norman invasion of 1066 was marked by
the construction of the Tower of London, which protected London Bridge from
raiders coming upstream and was built to overawe its inhabitants as a symbol
and embodiment of royal power.
London was devastated by the epidemic of
bubonic plague, known as the Black Death, which carried off a third of the
population in 1348-9.
The population of London tripled under the Tudors,
making it the greatest city in Britain — almost a hundred times more populous
than the Stratford-on-Avon in which Shakespeare grew up before coming to the
Globe Theatre as actor-manager. Two
devastating events took place during the reign of Charles Il — the Great Plague
in 1665, and the Great Fire of London which destroyed many of the city's most
beautiful buildings a year later in 1666. Although half the city was destroyed,
only six people were injured.
By 1700, London's population had passed
the halfmillion mark, ranking it with Paris and Naples as one of Europe's three
largest cities. However, with the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth
century, squalor and poverty accompanied its rapid growth. Charles Dickens
chronicled much of this in his novels.

When Edward Vll ascended the throne in 1901, London was
the largest city in the world, with a population of over six million. A century
later it is still the largest city in Europe.
Facts and figures
Population: 7.19 million. This means that
one in eight of the UK population live in London. 47% of these people are aged
16 to 44 and one in four of London's population is from an ethnic minority.
Language: Over 200 languages are spoken in London.
London is a global centre for international business with over 25% of the
world's largest companies having their European headquarters in London
Parks: Almost a third of London is green
space or parks (many of which are Royal Parks) - more than any other city of
its size in the world.
Transport:
There are 20,000 licensed taxis in London, 20,000 buses and 275 underground
stations.
Food and
drink: There are 6,000 restaurants and 5,000 pubs and bars. The restaurants
serve food from seventy different countries.
Historic buildings: London has 1 51
historic buildings and ancient monuments and 33 historic gardens. There are
over 18,000 historically listed buildings in London, nearly 600 of which are
Grade I listed (ie extremely important) and 21 % of which are within the
borough of Westminster. There are three world heritage sites in
London: the Tower of London, Maritime Greenwich and Westminster
Abbey.
Entertainment: London has over 200 museums, 500 cinema
screens and 108 theatres and music halls. There are 1,500 drama groups, 600
dance groups and five symphony orchestras.
Sport: 95 golf courses, 50 athletics tracks, 2000 tennis
courts, seven ice rinks, 546 swimming pools, 37 rowing clubs, 12 professional
football teams, two county cricket clubs and six race courses all within an
hour of London.
Tourism: In 2002, 28 million people visited for at least
one night.
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How to use the map
This bright and
stimulating map shows the main areas and landmarks of central London and its
surrounding area. We have tried to include as many of the locations mentioned
in Timesaver London! as possible. Those which are too far from the centre are
indicated with directional arrows.
The London Uncovered! map is a great visual stimulus which
will brighten up your classroom and act as a motivating context for students as they work
through the activities in the book. It can be used in conjunction with the students'
photocopiable map on pages 6 & 7 of Timesaver London! In addition, you
might like to try the further exploitation ideas below.

Yes / No questions game
Classwork or pairwork
Target language: Is it ... ? Can you ... ? Does it have ' Is / are there ?
1    One student in the class or pair
chooses a landmark on the map. They mustn't tell the rest of the class where it
is.
2    The other students ask questions to
deduce where the landmark is. Student A can only answer 'Yes' or 'No'. Give
students a limit to the number of questions they can ask — eight, for example.
Note
Encourage
students to use information they've learnt from Timesaver London! in their
questions.
Possible questions
Is it in North / East / South / West London?
Is
it near a park / the river? Is it a building?
Can
you buy clothes there?
Can
you see paintings there?
Can
you play / watch sport there?
Directions game: Where am I?
Classwork
Target language: Cross the river / bridge. Turn left / right into Go / walk past
... . Go / walk along
1    Give students a copy of the
photocopiable map from Timesaver London! (pages 6 & 7). Choose one student
from the class. Ask them to choose one of the landmarks on the London
Uncovered! map. They mustn't tell the rest of the class where it is.
2    Ask another student in the class to
choose the starting location for the class, for example: We are at
the Tate Modern.
3

The student you have chosen gives directions to their location.
Example: Cross over the river. Turn
left into Fleet
Street. Walk along the Strand. Walk past Buckingham Palace.
Turn into Park Lane and turn left.
The rest
of the class has to follow their directions, either on their maps or on the
poster.
4    When the destination is reached,
students ask if they have the right location, for example: Are you in Hyde
Park?
Note
This game
can also be played in pairs. Early finishers can sit near the poster and play
it.
Comparatives and superlatives game
Groupwork
Target language: more . than,
not as ... as, less . than,
the ...-est, one of the ...-est, the best place to . etc.
1
Put students in
groups of four. Ask them to look at the map, and the Timesaver London!
worksheets that they have completed. They have to decide as a group where they
would most like to visit.
2
Give students a
time limit of ten minutes to list as many reasons as they can for visiting the
place they have chosen. Tell them to use as many superlatives as possible, They
can use their Timesaver London! worksheets to help them.
Example:
The London Eye gives the best views of London, It's
the most exciting thing to do in London.
It's one of the tallest structures in London.
It's
the most contemporary structure in London etc.
3
Get one student
from each group to write their landmark on the board. Each group reads out
their list. For each correct sentence they receive one point. For each
superlative they use, they receive a bonus
point.
4
Ask each group to
give a comparative sentence, saying why their landmark is better than rival
groups. For each correct sentence, they receive a
point.
Example:
The
London Eye is cheaper than Madame Tussaud's.
The
London Dungeon is more interesting than Harrods etc
5
The group with the
most points wins.

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Arriving in London
Most people who come to London come by
plane. There are five airports for London, but the most famous and popular are
Heathrow and Gatwick.
Find the
five airports and write the names in the correct places.
Heathrow: This is the busiest* airport in
the world. It's west of London.
Gatwick: This airport is for many people
going to holiday destinations*. It's south of London.
Stansted: This airport is good for cheap*
flights. It's north-east of London.
Luton: This airport is in a town north of
London. It's also a good airport for cheap flights.
City: This is a small airport near the city
of
London. It's for short flights and business
flights.

A British
passport looks like this. Now fill in a passport for yourself.

You are in the baggage hall.
You arrive from Lisbon, Portugal. You have
got a large rucksack and a large old suitcase.
Where's your luggage? é/é;Ð
Arrivals       Time            Baggage
number    reclaim

You want to leave the airport. Where do you go?

Entrance >

Exit >

Gates
  1—10 >

         D
To get to the centre of London from the airport is very easy.
You can go by bus, train or taxi.
Many visitors go to the centre of London by train. Look at the
leaflets and fill in the information. stansted express
Stansted Express is a fast way to and from Heathrow
Express is a fast and convenient*
Stansted Airport, with trains every 15 or way
to travel between Heathrow Airport and
30 minutes from Liverpool Street Station.
London Paddington. It is a non-stop service and the it takes only 15 minutes.
And with a journey time of 45 minutes,
Stansted Express is a quick way to your With trains every 15
minutes, the Heathrow destination. A single ticket costs £13.00. Express
is better than any other form of transport.
Why not book
online NOW? For more information please click on Single tickets cost only
£13.00.
'service news' or call 0845 8500 150
For information call:
(+44) 845 600 1515
Luton
Airport

With
a modern airport and rail station, London gatwick
Luton Airport is perfect for business and
holiday
travellers.                                      express

Thameslink takes you between London Bridge
  The Gatwick Express is a highstation and Luton Airport Parkway in 30 minutes.
  speed train between Central
From the
  train station you catch the FREE bus, London and Gatwick Airport. With

which
  takes you to the airport in five minutes. a journey time of just 30 minutes

VOCABULARY

 Up to eight Thameslink
  trains an hour between from London Victoria Station to

CHECK LIST

London Bridge and Luton Airport
  Parkway

Gatwick (35 minutes on Sundays),

What is
  it in

there is no faster way between

your
  language?

Fast trains take 30 minutes to
  London

the city and the airport.

Find out!

£10.00 one way between
  London and

Why not book online now?

busiest (from busy)

Luton Airport Parkway

Single tickets cost £11.00.

destinations

Name of     Where do

 How long       How much

cheap

airport  you
  arrive?

does it
  take? does it cost?

Heathrow

to get off

Gatwick
Stansted

signs (a sign)

convenient
Luton

London
Transport
Seven million
people live in London. How do they travel?

Help the
tourist!

There are many buses in London.
Match the bus and its destination.
                           The
London Eye

Tickets
and Travelcards
Most Londoners don't buy single or return
tickets. They have got travelcards.

With a travelcard you can travel on buses, trains and the underground. You can
buy a one-day, weekly, monthly or yearly travelcard. To buy a weekly, monthly
or yearly travelcard, you need a photo.
Put the
correct information in the weekly travel card.

Going by Tube
Read the instructions and colour the Tube map. Start
at the spot (0).
Choose alternate* letters in the circles to find the
name of each line*.

1) RED
This line* runs
through the centre of London and it joins Holland Park to Liverpool Street.
Liverpool Street is also a railway station. This line goes under Oxford Street
and the stations on Oxford Street are Marble Arch,
Bond Street, Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road.
It's the ..  Central
Z) YELLOW
This line goes through Notting
Hill Gate, Edgware Road, Barbican,
Tower Hill, Embankment, Victoria,
South Kensington, and back to
Notting Hill Gate again. Tower Hill is the
Tube stop* for the Tower of London. South Kensington is the Tube stop for the
Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. Westminster is the Tube stop for
the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, and Notting Hill is the stop for
Portobello Market.
It's the ..
Z) DARK BLUE
This line goes from King's Cross
(a railway station) through Covent
Garden, Piccadilly
Circus, Leicester
Square, Knightsbridge and Earl's Court.
Knightsbridge is the Tube stop for Harrods. Piccadilly Circus and Leicester
Square are in the West End. This is the name for the area* with theatres,
cinemas, restaurants and shops.
Heathrow Airport is at the end of this Tube line.
It's the . .
C) LIGHT BLUE
This line also goes through King's

Cross. It goes through Oxford Street, Green Park and Victoria, and down to
Pimlico. Pimlico is the Tube stop for Tate Britain. You can go from Tate
Britain to Tate Modern (near St Paul's
Cathedral) by boat. It's called Tate to Tate.

E) BLACK
This line goes from Euston (a railway station) to
Tottenham
Court Road, Charing
Cross (another railway station) and then to Waterloo. Tottenham Court Road is
the stop for the British Museum. You can go by
Eurostar train in
Waterloo Station to France and Belgium. Another part* of this line goes from
King's Cross, through Bank and on to London Bridge.
It's the .
S) GREEN
This line goes from Tower Hill through St James's Park
to Earl's Court. After Earl's Court, one part goes to Wimbledon in the south
(not on the map), and one part goes to
Richmond (not on the map). From Earl's Court
it goes up to Paddington (a railway station) and ends at Edgware Road. St
James's Park is the Tube stop for Buckingham Palace.
It's the
Z) BROWN
This line goes from Paddington, through Baker Street and
Regent's Park and on to Waterloo.
Baker Street is the Tube
stop for
Madame Tussauds Museum
and
Regent's Park is the Tube Station for London Zoo.
Its name comes from two of the stations on the line.
It's the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
y PINK
This line goes from
Paddington to Baker Street, Barbican and Liverpool Street. The Barbican is an
area of London with a large theatre and concert hall. The Museum of
London is in the Barbican.
It's the

The London Eye
If you want to see London, the best
place to go is the Eye. The Eye is a big wheel* on the River Thames.
The Eye is very popular. Every day 1600
people go on the Eye. There are 33 capsules* and one ride takes 30 minutes.
The Eye is very tall - 133 metres. At the
top of the Eye you get a great view* of London. You can see for 25 miles (40
kilometres) but don't go if you are afraid of* heights* !
A great
view!

At the top of the Eye you can
see many places in London. Here are 5 things you can see from the Eye. Match
the word halves to make these London icons.

Trafalgar

Ben

2

Tower

Square

TAXI
Imagine you are 133 metres high in your town / city. What
places can you see?

How much
does it cost?
You want to visit the London Eye. Here is the London
Eye price list.

Look at these
five different groups of people.
How much does
it cost them to go on the Eye?

has got
The Tower of London
The Tower of
London is London's oldest castle*. It's nine hundred years old. It's got
Beefeaters, ravens, the crown jewels and ghosts...!

Beefeaters
Beefeaters don't eat beef!
They protect* the Tower. The name
'Beefeater' comes from when the Queen gave them meat, not money, as their pay.
Beefeaters like the name Yeoman Warders. Forty Beefeaters (or Yeoman
Warders) live
at the Tower.
I want to live at the Tower.
I don't want to live at the Tower.
The Crown Jewels
The Crown Jewels are in the Jewel Room. The
royal crown has got three hundred jewels on it, but the Queen only wears the
crown once* every year!

What jewellery have you got?
I've
got
Ravens*
They are scary birds. There are seven ravens here. If
they leave the Tower it is very bad luck. Every day the ravens eat meat, eggs
and biscuits with blood*. Yuk!
I like the ravens.
I don't like the ravens.
Ghosts
The Tower has got
many ghosts. There are ghosts in the Salt Tower. Dogs don't like to go in the
Salt Tower and Beefeaters don't like to go in there at night. Are you afraid of
ghosts?
Yes

Numbers search
Find these numbers in the text.
c 900

has
got
Escape from the Tower
You
are a prisoner*. You want to escape from the Tower.
Read the sentences and go to the correct
key in the Tower. Draw your route on the map.

Take key number ten.
Go to key number fifteen. Run!
There are Beefeaters here!
Go in the room. You see the crown.
Take key eighty-eight and the crown.
Go to key thirty. Open the door.
Oh
no! Ghosts! Run to key seventy-two.
You see a Beefeater. He is
sleeping. Take key ninety-nine. Open the door and run!
VOCABULARY
CHECK LIST
What is it in your language? Find
out!

castle

blood

to protect

once

ravens

prisoner

,
The River Thames
London is the home of England's most famous and
important river: the Thames.
Many important places in London are
next to the Thames. You can find the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London
and the London Eye on the riverside.
The Thames is a short
river. It's only 349 km long.
What's the name of the river The Amazon,
in Brazil is 6,437 km long!
in your capital city?
Many people think the Thames is not clean
but this is not true. More than 97 types of fish live here, for example salmon*
and eels*. Eels are a How long is it?
traditional food in East London. People make
a pie and serve it with mashed potatoes*. It's called It's . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 'eel pie and mash'.

Two years ago, a dolphin* was in the Thames!
Frogtours!
How do you go sightseeing without all the traffic? You
can take a Frogtour. A frogboat is a tank for tourists. It travels on the road
and on the river...but be careful - you get wet* on this tour!
You are on a frogboat in the Thames. Listen to your
captain, draw the route and write the letters of the places you see in the
correct boxes.

Before we go under Westminster
Bridge, you can see the Houses of
Parliament. You can hear Big
Do you like fish? Opposite The
Houses of Parliament is the London Aquarium.
Next to the Aquarium is The London Eye. You
get the best view of London here!

Now we're going under four bridges. One bridge is for walking only. On the
south side there is Tate Modern, an art gallery. On the north side you can see
St Paul's Cathedral.
We're going under two
bridges. You can see a large ship in front of us. This is HMS Belfast, it's a
museum ship.

ìiiiiii

2

"Welcome to the one and only
  Frogtour.
The best way to see the sights of
  London!"
                  4

6

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e

8
9
The Tower of London
St Paul's
  Cathedral
HMS Belfast

The London Eye

The Houses of Parliament

3
Westminstet Bridge

Tower Bridge

The Tate Modern

Opposite HMS Belfast is
the home of the Crown Jewels and the Beefeaters. This is the Tower of London.
Now we're stopping here in front of London's most beautiful bridge, Tower
Bridge.

VOCABULARY CHECK LIST What is it in your language? Find out!
salmon                              eel                      mashed
potato                  dolphin                      to get wet

London Football Clubs
What is
London's favourite sport? Football of course!
There are
twenty-three football teams* in London. The biggest and most popular are
Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham and Charlton.
Here are the
most important football teams in London.
Tottenham Hotspur
         Arsenal                                West
Ham
Club: Chelsea
Colours: Blue
Chelsea                                                                                Nickname:
The Blues Stadium: Stamford Bridge www.chelseafc.com
Charlton
Chelsea star player: Hernan Crespo
Date of birth: 5th July 1975
Height: 1.85 metres
Weight: 78 kilograms
Club: Arsenal
Colours: Red and white
Nickname*: The Gunners / The Gooners
Club: West Ham                                                                  Stadium:
Highbury
www.arsenal.com
Colours: Claret (a kind of purple) and blue

Nickname: The Hammers Stadium: Upton Park www.whufc.com
West Ham star ex-player: David James
Date of birth: 1st August 1970
Height: 1.96 metres
Weight: 91.25 kilograms
Club: Tottenham Hotspur
Colours: White and blue Nickname:
Spurs Stadium: White Hart Lane www.spurs.co.uk
Spurs star player: Robbie Keane
Date of birth: 8th July 1980
Height: 1.75 metres
Weight: 63.56 kilograms
Arsenal star player: Robert Pires Date of birth: 29 October
1973
Height: 1.88 metres
Weight: 74 kilograms
Which player
1
...is the tallest?
2
...is the oldest?
3
...is the heaviest* ?
4
.has got the longest hair?
TIMESAVER LONDON! superlatives; chants
Mascots
Most football
clubs have mascots*.
Here are four
mascots from the London clubs. Can you match them to their clubs?
a)  West Ham             c) Tottenham
Hotspur
b)  Arsenal d)
Chelsea

        Gunnersaurus Rex                   2 Stamford the Lion
3 Chirpy
Cockrell                                   Herbie Hammer
The
Fans
Here are two
West Ham fans and two Arsenal fans.
What do you think they are saying?
Football
chants*
Here are
three chants. Which clubs do you hear them at?
Carefree
Wherever you may be
We are the famous CFC
2 Come on you Spurs!

VOCABULARY CHECK LIST What is it in your language? Find out!
      team                         nickname                       heaviest                         mascot                              chant
looks like; possessives
Madame
Tussauds
There are
more than one hundred museums in London.
The most popular museum is Madame Tussauds, the
waxwork* museum.
It has so many visitors that you can wait for up to an
hour in the queue*.
At Madame Tussauds you can meet hundreds of famous people jn
one day. It's got wax models of pop stars, sports stars, film stars and
politicians. It's even got a Chamber of Horrors, with famous criminals* . ..
Don't go there if you

are afraid* !
Look at
these four wax models. Which famous people are they?
He's American.

He's a politician.
3
She's Australian.
She's a pop singer.
4 She's a Latino.
She's a singer and an actress.
He's English.
He's a football player.

Do you think the wax figures
look like the real famous people?

In
the modelling room
You are in the
wax work modelling room. You find lots of body parts. Which famous person's
waxwork do they belong to?

Buckingham Palace
Would you
like to live in a house with 600 rooms,
78 bathrooms, a cinema, a swimming pool and a post
office?

This is the Queen's London home, Buckingham Palace. The Queen has four other
palaces in Britain, but this is her most famous home. If the Queen's flag* is
flying outside the palace, it means that the Queen is at home.
If you are in London between August and October,
you can go inside Buckingham Palace. You can see the
State dining room, ballroom, the Queen's gallery with all her paintings* and
the mews where the royal coaches* and horses are. But you can't see all of the
rooms. The palace is too big!

Look at the picture of the Palace. Read the
description to find out which room it is.

colours; modal can

The London Butterfly House
The
Butterfly House is in the garden of Syon House on the River Thames in west
London. You can see tropical* butterflies from all over the world (Costa Rica,
Argentina, Tanzania, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and the Philippines).
The butterflies are in a big glass* house
and they can                comes out of the chrysalis after two or three
weeks, fly everywhere*. Visitors can walk among them as           its wings are
wet and it can't fly because it must wait they feed* and fly. Some of the
butterflies like to sit            until blood* gets into the wings. Female
butterflies on your head or shoulders! You can see the big            are
bigger than males. It's hot and damp* in the cages* where the caterpillars
live. Caterpillars have       Butterfly House because the temperature is always
strong mouths, six legs, but no eyes. Caterpillars love 280 and the
butterflies can't live in dry air or in eating and eat a lot of leaves. You can
see other       winds. They need damp air. There are lizards, cages with
chrysalises* in them where the caterpillars           iguanas, scorpions and
spiders there, too. You can 'sleep' and become butterflies. When a new
butterfly           also the world's biggest snail* - it's 25cm long!

Find the Butterflies
Follow the colour key and colour the butterflies. Then, read the
descriptions of each of the butterflies and write the names under the pictures.

VOCABULARY
CHECK LIST
What
  is it in your language? Find out!
tropical
to
  feed

cage

chrysalis

blood

damp

1 brown               blue
3 white            red 5 = yellow          grey
7 = black         green         orange
10 = pink
3
1 3
4
5     1              1              2
                                     1                                                                                3                                                3
5
                  3                 3                 5 4            5
3
- 3
4
4
3
3
4
4      Z)            3)
a)  The BANDED SOLDIER is
red with black Near the body, the wings are blue and stripes*. there are small
pink stripes on the
b)  The ROSE BUTTERFLY is
brown with four        back wings.
red spots* , three white spots and a yellow e) The RODRIGUEZ AGRIAS
BUTTERFLY spot on its two back wings. has got grey and blue back wings and
c)  The ACHILLES
BUTrERFLY is brown with a grey, blue and red front wings. large blue stripe and
small white spots on f) The MONARCH BUTTERFLY is yellow its wings. with red,
grey and yellow spots on the
d)  The SAPPHIRE
BUTTERFLY has got green, orange, black and yellow strips on its wings.

Which floor?
Hamleys has got seven floors* of toys. Look at the
floor guide*.

ordinal
numbers; Where is? / Where are?
Speaking
In
the shop: work in pairs
One of you is the shop assistant, one of you is the
customer.
Customer:
Look at the pictures 1-6. Ask where these toys are.
e.g. Excuse me, where are the computer games?
Assistant: Look at your floor guide
and reply
e.g. They are on
the first / second / third, etc, floor.
o
Every year there is a new
toy craze*.
Design
a toy that every child will want and describe it.

VOCABULARY
CHECK LIST
What is it
in your language? Find out! floor
basement
ground
floor
remote control car
craze

www.hamleys.co.uk

Rules of the store

Harrods has strict rules*. You can see lots of signs on the doors. The signs
tell customers what they can / can't do in the shop.
Look at these 6 signs and circle the correct word.

modal can; asking for a refund

Problems, problems!
If you buy something in Harrods and there is a problem with it, you can
take it back. Harrods can give you the money (a refund* ) or something of the
same price (an exchange*). But you must have the receipt.

Take it
back!
Put these
phrases in the correct speech bubbles.
It's too big.
OK. What's the problem with it?
                          That's
fine. Have you got the receipt?
Yes, it's this jumper. Yes, here it is.

O
London Markets
London has
got more than 65 street markets where you can buy everything and anything. The
two most popular markets in London are
Covent Garden
market and Camden market.

Covent Garden
Covent Garden was* the biggest fruit and vegetable
market in England but now it's got more than bananas. Now it's got hundreds of
shops, stalls* restaurants and bars. You can buy almost anything here!
Street Theatre
If you don't like shopping, you can watch the coolest*
street artists in Covent Garden. The best street artists in the world come
here. You can see jugglers* , dancers, mime* artists and people on stilts* and
unicycles*. Watch out for the fire-eaters!
Camden Market

Camden market is the fourth most popular tourist attraction in London. Camden
is like four different markets in one place. Camden is famous for its cool
street fashions, vegetarian food, music stalls and jewellery. There are more
tattoo* and piercing* shops here than in any other part of London. And if you
don't want to shop, buy music or get a tattoo, it's a great place for
people-watching!
Can you... ?
juggle with two oranges?
juggle with three oranges?
stand still without moving?
ride a unicycle? play two
musical instruments at the same time?

Here are five other famous London
  markets. Match the markets to their photos the next page.

on
Billingsgate market

(5.00 am - 8.00 am) Do you like fish?
Billingsgate is not a market for tourists.
  This market sells fish. It's the smelliest* market in London!

Columbia
Road market

Roses, carnations, they are all here.
best market to go love flowers. It smells beautiful!

daises... This is the
to if you
Portobello
Road

(7.00 am - 6.00 pm) Do you like
  collecting* things? You can buy stamps, coins, medals antiques here.

old and
Brixton market

Brixton
  market is in south London. You can buy lots of Jamaican food but you can buy
  clothes here too.

S
Petticoat Lane market

(Sundays)
This is the oldest market London. It's over 400 years old. It is famous
  for its clothes and lace* and is in
East London.

in

superlatives; How
much is / are; Can you... ?
a                                                                                c
d                                                                                Which
market would you like to go to?
I'd like to
go to

At
the market
You
are at Camden Market in London.
Look
at the questions and tick (V) the correct word (is or are). The correct answers
move you to the correct stall.

How much     the CD?

How
  much            the strawberries?

move 1
.
  10.00

is           move 2

move 1

move
  I

How much     the jacket?

How much     the old clock?

move 1

move
  4
f .

move 2

move
  1

How much     the hot dogs?

How
  much          the boots?

move 4

move
  4

f .

f .

move 3

move
  I

Now
write the correct prices in the boxes.
COOL
VOCABULARY CHECK LIST
What
is it in your language?
Find out!
was
stall
cool (coolest)
juggler (to juggle)
to mime
stilts
unicycle
tattoo
piercing
smelliest
(smelly)
to collect

SHOES
Start

London's
Theatreland
If you come to London you must spend one night at the
theatre!
In London there are 51 theatres and
every year 1 1 million people come to watch a play or a show. You can see
everything here — opera, comedy, drama, dance and musicals.

London musicals
The most popular shows in London are
musicals. Here are London's top musicals. Look at the titles of the musicals
and match them to their stories.
a) This is the story of an ugly old composer* who
lives under an opera house in Paris. He is in love with a beautiful opera
singer.

b) This is the story of a group of
  students who

The Phantom

want to sing, dance and be famous.
  They go

of
  the Opera

I H E MUSIt41

to
  the New York School of Performing Arts.

2

c)  This
  is the story of an inventor and his family. They have many adventures in
  their car that can fly.
d)  This story is in
  Africa. It's about Simba the lion.
e)  This
  story is about a simple London girl who sells flowers. She meets Henry
  Higgins who wants to teach her how to become a 'lady'.

4

f) This was a film. It's about two
  teenagers,
Sandy
  and Danny who fall in love* on holiday.
When they meet again at school,
  love is not

CATTY

so easy!
g) This musical was a film with
  Catherine ZetaJones and Renée Zellweger. It's the story of two
  dancers, Roxie and Velma in America in

6

the 1920s.

Which musical would you like to see? I'd like to see

1 st conditional; booking a ticket

At the

Booking a ticket

box office

Here are some things you say and
  hear when you are booking tickets for a show.

Musicals are very popular.
It's not easy to get a ticket.
For the most popular shows

Choose the option that is grammatically correct.

you can wait for six months

a) Hello. Theatre Royal box

a) We like two tickets in

to a year to see a show!
There are three different

office, can I help you?

the stalls, please.

types of ticket:

b) Hello. Theatre Royal box

b) We'd like two tickets in

Stalls
These are the expensive

office, can't I help you?

the stalls, please.

seats. They are on the

a) Hello. I can to book

9

a) What time does the

ground floor in front of

the stage.
Circle

ticket for The Lion King, please?

show
  start?
b) What time starts

These are above the stalls. The front rows are expensive but
  the other rows are cheaper than the stalls.
Balcony
These seats are the cheapest
  seats. They have a very good view but the seats are high. If you are afraid
  of heights, or have bad eyesight don't go!

b) Hello. Can I book tickets for The
  Lion King, please?
a)  I'd like tickets for January.
b)  I like tickets for the January.

the show?
a)  Can I pay by credit card?
b)  Can
  I paying by credit card?

They will also ask you: "Matinée or
  evening?"

4)

a)  Are
  you like stalls, circle or balcony?
b)  Would
  you like stalls, circle, or balcony?

THE LloÑ
Speaking
Now make your
own dialogue to book a ticket for a musical. Use the sentences above to help
you.

©

Dogs
in London
Battersea
Dogs' Home is a famous home for lost* or abandoned* dogs and cats in London.
It's nearly 150 years old.

Battersea Dogs Home

Every day 27 dogs come to the Home. That's about 10,000 every
year!
The Home gives dogs and cats a place to
sleep, medicine, food and love. It tries to find good homes for the dogs.
Spot the dog
Here are
three of the dogs in the Home at the moment. Match the description to the dog.

I'm Rosie Baby. I'm two years

I'm Bob. I'm eighteen months

I'm Nova. I'm very intelligent.

old. I'm small and white with

old. I'm small and black with

I'm
  big. I'm brown and black.

brown ears. I like toys, games

a white stomach. i like

I like walks.

and walks.

biscuits and
  treats* I don't like cats.

Pet Quiz!

What's the most popular pet in
  Britain?

a) rabbit

b) dog

c)
  cat

What's the most popular pet in the
  world?

a) canary

b) dog

c) hamster

How many people own dogs in
  Britain?

a) 10 million

b) 6 million

c) 8 million

Which pet lives the longest?

a)
  goldfish

c) canary

What's the most popular breed of
  dog in Britain?

a) poodle

b) Alsatian

c)
  Labrador

In which country was the first dog
  show held in 1859?

a) France

D b)
  Britain

c) America

4
6

Where's Sam?
Your dog is
missing*. You telephone Battersea Dogs' Home.

Assistant: Hello. Battersea
  Dogs' Home.
You: Oh hello. Our dog's missing. We
  want to check if it's in the Home.
Assistant: Oh dear. When did
  you lose your dog?
You: Two
  days ago. On Wednesday.
Assistant: Has it got
  microchip identity? Or a collar* ?
You: No. He's called Sam.

Assistant: OK. Describe him
  to me.
You: He's four years
  old. He's small and black with a white ear and a white tail.
Assistant: OK. We'll have a
  look. Which ear is white?
You: The left ear.
Assistant: OK. Can you call
  me back in an hour?
You: Of course. Thank you.

Look at these dogs. Can you
find Sam?

Work in
pairs. One of you works at the Dogs' Home; one of you can't find your dog.
Eating
Out: London Food
You are never
far* from a restaurant in London.
London has got more than 10,000 restaurants, so you
can't get hungry!
Here are some
of the foods you can find in London.

Look at these seven dishes. What are they?
pizza • cheeseburger • fish and chips sushi • curry •
noodles
Z)

6
Which one is your favourite?
Pie* and Mash
What is London's traditional dish? It's pie
and mash (mashed potatoes). This is a traditional East End dish.
What's in the pie? Eels* ! There are lots of
eels in the
River Thames. Not many Londoners eat eel pie
and mash though!
Fish and Chips
Not everybody tikes pie and mash but everybody loves
fish and chips! The oldest fish and chip shop in London is the Rock and Sole
Plaice. It's more than 130 years old. Most English people love to eat fish and
chips with salt and lots of vinegar*.
What do people eat with their chips in your
country? salt            ketchup               mayonnaise       vinegar
When you get your chips, the assistant sometimes says
"Open or wrapped*?"
What do you think this means?
Chinatown
In England, Chinese food is the most popular
takeaway*. The most popular dish is lemon chicken. In the centre of London
there is an area called Chinatown. There are many Chinese restaurants and
Chinese shops. In the windows you can see the chefs cooking the food.
Brick Lane
There are more indian
restaurants than fish and chip shops in London. If you want to eat an Indian
curry, the best place is Brick Lane. Brick Lane is in Whitechapel, East London.
The most popular dish is chicken tikka masala.

Restaurant names
Here are 8
restaurants you can find in London. Look at the signs. What type of food do you
think they sell?

At the restaurant

Answer
these questions. The correct answers give you the different ingredients* of a
popular dish. What is the dish?
1 You are looking for a table. You see a table. It's
got the sign "Reserved" on it.
Do
you...
      ' sit at
the table?                   > rice
• look for another table? > fish
3 You want to pay. What do you ask for?
' The bill > vinegar
• The ben > tomato sauce
Who says it?
You are in a
restaurant. Who says these phrases, the waiter or the customer? Write W or C
next to the correct phrases.
Ready to order?
I'm a vegetarian.
I'm allergic* to nuts.
Would you like some pepper?
Would you like anything to drink?
Choose a restaurant from the list
above. Find a partner to be the waiter and make a dialogue together.

Everyday
Londoners
London is the
biggest city in Europe and the 20th biggest city in the world.
London's population*
Over the centuries, people from all over the
world have come to London. They came to find freedom, to find work, to meet
people and live an interesting life. They make London an exciting and diverse*
city.
Today, more than seven million people live
in London and 46% of these are under 35 years old.
Look at this pie chart. It shows the
different ethnic groups that make London so cosmopolitan*.              a-pa,
White British
140/0 White other
(e.g. Irish / European /
Get into groups to discuss these
Australian / American) questions:
9% Black African
What's the population of your
8% Black Caribbean
town I city?
70/0 Indian

What ethnic groups are in your 5% Bangladeshi city / town?
3% Chinese
What are the difficulties for
3 0/0 Other people from different
cultures I ethnic groups living in London?
Writing home
Imagine you
arrive to live in London to start a new life.
You go to the Internet café to write home.
Complete the e-mail with your own ideas.
Dear .
How are you? I arrived in London on Tuesday.
I'm living in
.                                                               (a flat / house
/ bedsit*)
in .                                                                                (area
in London)
The most difficult thing about living in London is ..
The best thing about living in London is
Hope you are all well. I will call you next week.
Love .

Calling for a job
It's easy to find work in London,
especially if you want a summer or a part-time job.
But telephoning for a job is not always so easy. Gianni is
looking for a job, but he doesn't use the correct style of English.
Match what
his wrong way of saying things to the right way of saying things.
3D Cool. So what's it
like then? What are the hours of work like? I hope I don't

have to work late. What's the pay
  like?

I'm
  calling about the vacancy* in Monday's

I have to know about the money!

Evening
  Standard. Are you still looking for

Yeah. I've done a bit of waiting
  before

somebody?

in Italy. In the summer, I think.
  I'm

(9

Yes I have got some experience of
  waiting.

Italian, so what more could you
  want?

Last summer I worked in a small
  restaurant

E) Sure.
  I'll drop in on Tuesday at three.

in
  my home town of Pisa, so I know how to

     See                                                                                wait
and I know Italian food!
comparatives, superlatives; ago; have to, must

The Boat Race

Every country
has got its own strange historic sport or race such as the Palio in Sienna,
Italy, or the Pamplona Bull Run in Spain, but the Boat Race in London is one of
the most extraordinary to understand. It is simply a race between two boats,
one from Oxford University and one from Cambridge University. 2004 is special
because it's the year of the 150th Boat Race.
History
The first race was in 1829 in Henley, a
small town on the Thames. 20,000 people watched it and now Henley is famous for
its annual regatta - a series of boat races in July each year. People come
dressed in fashionable clothes and have expensive, luxurious* picnics on the
River during the races. After the first year, the Boat Race moved to
Westminster, but by 1845 when
Westminster became too crowded*, the Race moved six miles (9.65 km) up
the River Thames to Putney which was only a village in those days but it's a
fashionable suburb of London now.
Facts

The two long boats measure 19.9 metres and they are very light - they only
weigh 96 kg. The race lasts for 6.8 km. It takes approximately* 600 strokes (a
movement of the oars of the boat) to row the course. There are eight oarsmen
(people who row the boat) in each boat and a cox (short for coxswain - the
person who steers* the boat). The oarsmen are big and strong but the cox is
always a very small person. Every crew* member has to train for two hours for
each stroke (one movement of the oar) - that's
1,200 hours! That's a lot of training!
The Race takes place at Easter time, and the water in the River Thames
between Putney and Mortlake is very tidal*. The streams of water move very fast
when the tide is coming up the Thames. The weather, the tide, and the bends in
the River mean that the difficult parts of the River are exposed* to winds from
different directions and this adds mystery to the unpredictable* conditions.
The Spectators
400 million people in the world watch the Boat Race on TV, and 7.7
million people in Britain watch it. The Boat Race is in the top five live* TV
sports events on British TV.
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CHECK LIST
What is it in your
language? Find out! IUXUriOUS
crowded
approximately
to steer
crew
exposed
unpredictable
live (ad)
www.theboatrace.org

Boat Race Statistics
Like all
famous sports, there are lots of statistics connected with it.
Fill in the missing words in these sentences and then
find them in the word search grid.
Draw red lines through them all when you find them.
The extra words in the grid
(not coloured
red) spell the name of the oldest person to take part in the Boat Race, and
they also tell you what happened in 1912.

E

A N S

D S S

I S

E

R E G E

A

O B L

E R G

H I

E

A S A

A N U

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The fastest time for the
Boat Race is 16 minutes, 19 seconds. Cambridge did this in 1998.
Christopher Hibbert was the oarsman to row in the
Boat Race. He weighed 110.22 kg.

Alfred Higgins was the oarsman to row in the
Boat Race. He weighed 60.1 kg. He took part in 1882. But there were two tiny
coxes who took part in 1862 and 1939. Francis Archer (Cambridge) and Hart
Massey (Oxford) both weighed just 32.66 kg.
Matthew Brittin
(Cambridge) was the person to take part in the Boat Race. He
was just eighteen years old in 1987.
The  winning
margin (the distance between the two boats at the finish) was just 0.3048m.
This was in 2003. It was a very exciting race!
The . oarsman rowed for Cambridge. He took
part four times in the Boat Race: in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. He measured 2m
7cm.
70 In 1981, Sue Brown (Oxford) was the first . to
take part jn the Boat Race.
Y The  twins rowed in the
Boat Race in 1982.
90 In 1989, both Oxford and Cambridge had .
coxes.
Wimbledon:
The Home of Tennis
When people hear the word Wimbledon they think of one
thing - tennis.
Wimbledon in south-west London is a pretty,
quiet place. But for two weeks in the summer it's really busy. Wimbledon is the
home of one of the most important tennis championships* in the world.
In the last week of June and the first week
of July, more than half a million people come to Wimbledon to see the world's
best tennis players.
After two weeks, with more than one hundred
matches and 15,000 tennis balls, you have two tennis champions!
Wimbledon is more than just tennis. Here are five things
you can see at Wimbledon!

I Strawberries
If you visit Wimbledon you must have
strawberries and cream. They are expensive but it is the tradition!
S
Umbrellas

It may be the summer but it is

The traditional summer drink

traditional
  for it to rain at some

is Pimms (an alcoholic drink)

time during Wimbledon so you must take an
  umbrella!

1 biedori
Clothes

and lemonade.

4 Tents

The tennis players have

a dress code* (they Yes, at Wimbledon
it's possible to buy tickets on must wear white).
the same day, but
there are not many and the first people in the queue* get the tickets. That's
why some people camp the night before so they are the first in the queue!

                     Wimbledon rules                                   Tennis
talk!
          You are playing
at Wimbledon. You are serving*.                    Are you a tennis expert?
  Read the sentences below and chose
the correct answer.                    You hear people
Find that
answer in the tennis balls and see      talking in the crowd. how many serves
you get. What do they mean?
1    Players
must / mustn't wear white.

ACE

2    You
must / mustn't take photos during a match.       opponent
3    You
mustn't / must buy a ticket before the match.
"Wow! Roddick 4 You must / mustn't talk during a match.
hits
another ace!"
5 Lots of people drink Pimms at
Wimbledon. But you must / mustn't drink it if you are under 18.
a)  Roddick serves. The
other player can't touch the ball. Roddick scores a
b)  Roddick hits the
tennis ball into the net.

2

LOVE

stn't
stn't
"Oh no! Tim is losing two games to
love. '
a)  Tim is in love and
can't play very well.
b)  Tim has no points.
tan

SEED

xaffi
"That
player is one of the seeds. '
a) The player is
one of the best in the world.
b) The player is
one of the worst in the world.
as-a-a0
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queue

dress code

to serve

TIMESAVER LONDON! must; 1st conditional; some, any, no,
lots, a few
Theme
Parks Around London
If you love
adventure, you must visit some of the theme parks near London.
Chessington
World of Adventures
If you want to go
to Chessington, you must get a           Kumba and Kaya (the mum and dad)/
their daughter train from Waterloo Station. Chessington is south         Asili,
and Asili's daughter, Shani. There is also a big sea west of London in a county
called Surrey. There are     lion called Boris. He weighs 1,764kg! He's too
heavy lots of scary* rides*. They measure you for some of             for all
the rides but he can hear all the screams* !
the rides. Small
children mustn't go on any of the         If you love Harry Potter, wizards*
and magic, there's a dangerous rides (The Vampire, The Samurai, Dragon    scary
house called Hocus Pocus Hall. If you don't like Falls, the Black Bucaneer and
the Seastorm). Also,        scary things, you can go on the Skyway Safari. This
is very fat people can't go on some of the rides because a slow and gentle
monorail and you can look down it's difficult to close the safety bars* on the
seats if              on the theme park from the sky. And if you like lots you
are too big.              of action, you must go on the ride called Tomb One
part of Chessington is called Animal Land. It               Blaster. It's an
interactive* ride — all the people on hasn't got any rides, but it's got a zoo
with some the ride have laser guns and they can shoot all the wonderful
animals. There is a gorilla family with    baddies* they meet.
Thorpe
Park
Thorpe Park is in the west of way Out 20m
above the ground and each of London, near Heathrow Airport. If you are afraid*
of the dark, the little cages rotate (go round) It's got lots of very scary
rides. don't go on this ride! It's one of fifteen times.
Here are some of them:                                 the
first rollercoasters in the world          The Tidal Wave
Nemesis Inferno           where
you go backwards* through         This is one of Europe's highest This
rollercoaster* goes upside        the dark. There are no little        water
rides. It lasts down. It's a journey* through a          children on this ride!      136
seconds. volcano and you travel at 77km/h.               The Eclipse
Colossus                                                        Some
people prefer*
This rollercoaster climbs to 30m a quiet
ride and this then falls to the ground and goes is like the Safari up into the
sky like a rocket. It Skyway in Chessington. goes into a 3600 loop*.
It twists* You can look down on through the air over the water all the other
rides.
and does 10
loops during the ride.       The Vortex
1050 people go on
this ride every         This very fast ride is in a hour. Some brave people go
on it          part of the Park called The again and again!            Lost
City. This ride swings*
VOCABULARY CHECK LIST What is it in your
language? Find out!
                      scary                            scream                         baddies                            loop                         backwards
                        ride                               wizard                       rollercoaster                      to
twist                         to prefer
                  safety
bar                    interactive                      journey                           afraid                          to
swing
Both these parks are closed October-March.

The Tomb Blaster Puzzle
If you go to Chessington World of Adventures, where
can you find the Tomb Blaster ride?
Choose the letters next to the
correct parts of the sentences and you can find the name of that part of the
theme park.
2
are 3

4
 (any — M / a few — R) gorillas and
5
 (some — P / lots — E) of penguins.
There are 6  (no — N /
  any — A) elephants.
7  (A few — S
  / Lots — D) of people work in Animal Land because the animals are very hungry
  in the
morning. 8  (No - W / Some — N)
  people
don't like scary rides but
  there are 9
(lots — T / a few — B) of things for them to do.
10  (No — S / Some — l) people dress in
  cowboy clothes for a funny photograph; others go on the monorail trip. 11  (Any
  -C / No - 0)
visit is complete without a
  meal in one of the themed
restaurants. 12  (A few - M / Any - N)

frightening!
  Have you got 15  (any -G/
some — J) favourite rides from theme parks in your
country? 16  (Any -Y / Some - H)
  small children hate the dodgems because they can easily bump their heads when
  the cars crash into one another.
In Beanoland at Chessington
  there are 17
(a few - H / lots - F) of rides with names
  of characters from the comic, The Beano, such as Dennis's Madhouse. Dennis
  the Menace is a naughty boy in The Beano. He's got a dog called Gnasher. Do
  18  (a few A/ any - K) of you know The
  Beano? One thing is sure, if you come to Chessington, you are going to have
19                                                                                (lots
  - D / no - F) of fun.

000 ooooooooo ooooooo
     9 16 5       17 11 4 13
At many theme parks there are some
stars next to the names of the rides to warn you how scary they are. X:\No Way
Out has got five stars. Some other rides have four stars, some have three, some
have two and some have one star.
Here are the different meanings of the stars. Choose
one, two, three, four or five stars for each of them.

City Animals

There are more than 7 million
people in London, and where there are people, there are animals. Here are the
most common animals you will see in London.

Name: Pigeon
Eats:
Insects, nuts, bread,

Footprint:

chips

Fact:

How
  many?

Pigeons can live for

40,000
  pigeons fly into

35 years

Trafalgar
  Square every

Pigeons
  live in

day

my town / city

o

Name: Fox
Eats:
Small animals, insects; loves 'fast food'
  (eg

Pawprint:

hamburgers and chips)

Fact:

How many?

Foxes have a white tip*

There are 30,000 in

on their
  tails

London! A fox even

Foxes live in

lives in Downing Street!

o
my town / city
Pests!

Pigeons, foxes and rats are pests*
  that damage* buildings and spread disease*.

The Mayor of London wants to reduce*
  the number of pigeons and rats in London.

Name: Rat

For
  example, it is now against the law to feed the pigeons in Trafalgar Square.

Eats:

Here
  are six ideas to reduce the number of pigeons, foxes and rats.

Insects, fast
  food, rubbish

What's
  your opinion? 1 = the best idea 6 = the worst idea

How many?

o
  Put more litter bins in the city o Encourage people to have cats

There are
  60 million

o
  Put poison* in the streets to o Fine* people who drop litter

in the UK

                  kill
  the animals                                               on the street

Fact:

o Put traps* in the streets to o Make
  fast food shops pay a

There are more rats than people

                  kill
  the animals                                               'pest tax'

in London
  Pawprint:
Rats live in

Who are the real
  pests - people or animals?
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  LIST What is it in your language? Find out!
                                                   to
  damage                    to reduce                           trap

my town / city QD

                  pest                     to
  spread disease                  poison                            to fine

www.wildlondon.org.uk/wildinfoffoxes.htm
The London Aquarium
Fill in the missing words in the text to find a
fascinating fact about sharks.

The words in boxes
make the fact sentence.

fish
  CDU.S.

like OBY
  eating KILLED sleep ARE

facts
  THE weapon

SHARKS

shark IN

strange BEES males THAN

temperature

PEOPLE

The London Aquarium is opposite the
Houses of Parliament, on the bank of the River Thames.
In the different areas of the Aquarium you can see fish from the different
oceans of the world.
The Sharks
In the Pacific area you can see the sharks and sting
rays. You can look at them from two . floors MORE of the
Aquarium because they need very deep water.
The of the water must always be 23 0 . There are three sand tiger
sharks, three brown sharks, a nurse shark called Florence and Mazawabee, a
zebra .
. You can learn lots of
about sharks at the London Aquarium.
Sharks are the only
with their eyes open. Great white sharks
love but they don't chew their food. They rip* their food into chunks* and
swallow them whole. Tiger sharks can be dangerous because
people but the good news is they don't like the taste
and they usually stop after
FACT: More
one bite. Sharks are heavier than water and
they can easily sink if they stop swimming.
The Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the world's third largest ocean. It contains some of the
world's most dangerous fish too. Starfish are very .
creatures. They can easily push their
stomachs up through their mouths when they want to eat. Bleeaagghh!
Unusual Fish
On a coral reef* you can see lion fish, eels, bat fish,
pipe fish and sea horses. These unusual fish can swim upright, and the not the
females, give birth to the babies. The box fish can easily protect itself when
it's in danger. Its secret ..
 is poison. It squirts* poison into the
water when danger approaches, but it has to swim away quickly because it can
poison itself, too!
The electric knife fish which lives in
Venezuela has got tiny eyes and it can hardly* see. It uses electricity to hunt
for food.

Puffer fish can puff* themselves up angrily when they are in danger. Atlantic
puffer fish have got lots of spikes* on their bodies.
VOCABULARY CHECK LIST What is it in your language?
Find out!
chunk
coral reef
to squirt
to puff

n d on zoo
London Zoo is in Regent's Park near the centre of
London.
It's open every day of the year
except Christmas Day. There are 600 different species (kinds) of animals,
birds, insects and reptiles there. It has changed a lot since it first opened
in 1828, and although many people now think it's cruel to keep animals in zoos,
it's a good place to protect* animals in danger and to educate people,
especially children, about the natural world. Some of the animals became living
legends in their lifetimes.
Guy the Gorilla
Guy got his name from the day when he was born
- Guy Fawkes Day
(November 5th). He was born in 1947 and arrived at the zoo holding a little
metal* hot water bottle. He was very gentle and everyone loved him. When
sparrows* flew into his enclosure (the space where he lived), he picked them
up* gently in his hand, looked at them closely, and then let them fly away.
Signs everywhere told the visitors not to

feed the animals, but
people gave Guy sweets and he got toothache. He died during an operation* to
remove his tooth. There's a statue of Guy at London Zoo.
Belinda, the Bird-eating Spider
Belinda died in 1993 when she was 23 years
old. She was a great advert* for London Zoo because she helped hundreds of
people conquer* their spider phobia. The zoo allowed people to hold beautiful
Belinda in their hands and usually this cured them.
Winnie, the Black Bear

Winnie arrived at the zoo in 1914. A. A. Milne, the children's writer, took his
young son, Christopher Robin, to the zoo and he began to make up stories about
the bear. These were the first stories about Winnie-the-Pooh.
Goldie, the Golden Eagle
Goldie escaped in 1965 and thousands of
people went to Regent's Park to watch him flying from tree to tree. It caused
big traffic jams* around the area near the Park. He was free for eleven days
and he became a national hero.
VOCABULARY CHECK LIST What is it in your
language? Find out!
to protect
metal
sparrow
to pick up
operation
advert
to conquer
traffic jams

www.londonzoo.co.uk

The Zoo Maze
This is the story of London Zoo. Choose the correct
verb to complete each sentence.
Take the
letters next to the correct verbs to find the popular name for some

START

of the Zoo's favourite animals, the okapi.

A
  herd of sheep and

In 1850 the first

The
  Regent's Park Zoo

            F                   goats
  .                      from

hippopotamus

opened in 1828 but

London
  docks to the zoo
WOULDN'T                                                                      WALKED

(since Roman times)

ordinary people

with
  the new African

arrived.
  The number

.ço.u.l.dfi'_t__ visit it

animals
  to provide milk

of visitors to the Zoo

until 1847.

to
  feed them.

N

A

s

J COULDN'T                                                               TRANSLATEDTWICED                                                      L
DOUBLED

In 1832 zoo keepers

ARRIVED                   SAILED
Tommy, the first

In the late 1840s, excited Victorian

an elephant,

TRANSFERRED

chimpanzee,

women

an alligator, a boa,

at the

their
  parasols

an
  anaconda and 100

Zoo in a stagecoach

through the bars of the

rattlesnakes
  from the Tower of London.

with his keeper.

cages to try to touch the animals.

C CLOSED
In 1853, the world's

DYED

W WENT

POKED

M PULLED
During World War Il,

first reptile house

The first lion

keepers

DIED

of a broken heart in 1840 after the
  death of his mate.

the dangerous animals to Ireland for
  safety and people ate the edible fish.

I            OPENED
A keeper tried to

KISSED

CAME

E TOOK
After
  the War,

charm the cobra, but

The first koala bear

London
  Zoo

it .                          him

ESCAPED

to live outside

BROUGHT

their
  first

between the eyes

Australia .

giant panda and their

and he died.

to the Zoo in 1880.

first
  polar bear.

R               BIT
A giant ant eater

EAT

F HURRIED
Everyone .

BREAD

also arrived in the

A

to see Alice and

1

1850s. It . ATE Jumbo, the two new
WORRIED FINISH 50 eggs a day.       elephants who arrived in 1867.
EastEnders
Londoners
have got lots of places they can go to and lots of things they can do but
sometimes they just like to stay at home and watch television.

Britain's favourite soap opera is set in
  the East End of London. It's called EastEnders and it's about people who live
  in the East End of London. It's on BBC 1 and its the most popular TV show in
  the UK - more than

15 million people watch it. You can watch EastEnders four times a week
  on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays - and if you miss an episode* you
  can watch all the week's episodes on Sunday afternoon.

The
EastEnders live in Albert Square, Walford. Walford is not a real place in
London. Here is a map of Walford. Label the nine places.

1      The 'Queen Vic' pub
2      A laundrette
3      A market stall

a
i
4      The café   Evans & Son
Cars
      Walford East Underground Station           8 The Arches
motor repairs

6 Angie's Den (a nightclub)                                  The
Bed and Breakfast

There are 30 - 35 characters in EastEnders. Here are
some of the favourites:

Alfie Moon

Kat Slater

Phil Mitchell

Alfie
  lives and

Kat works in the pub.

Many people are afraid of Phil.

Janine

works in
  the pub.

She gets angry very

He owns the car repair* shop,

He is in love with

quickly. She often falls

the
  café and the pub. People

Janine likes money...

Kat but he is very

in love with the

say he is horrible and arrogant*

and trouble. She

shy.

wrong men.

but he loves his baby daughter.

often uses people for money. She works for
  Evans' Cars.

Jim
Branning

Jim is married to Dot.

He works in the pub. He likes to drink and gamble* , but only if
Dot doesn't know!
Dot Cotton
Dot is married to Jim. She is always smoking and loves
talking about other people. She works in the laundrette*
Make your own EastEnders episode
You need a dice for this activity. Get into
You then have ten minutes to decide what groups and decide which character you
happens and make a dialogue. At the end

want to be. Roll the dice to give you a
  you can act it to your class or roll the dice place, a situation, a phrase
  and a prop* again. To finish the activity, write up your dialogue as a
  script.

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Find out!
episode
repair
arrogant
to gamble
laundrette
prop

Dice number

Places

Situation

Prop

Say it!

1

The 'Queen Vic'
  pub

There's a birthday

A bag

Come on!

2

The
  laundrette

There's a wedding

A mobile phone

Get lost!

3

The market

One of you needs
  money

An address book

Shut up!

4

The café

There's an accident

Some keys

Alright,
  mate?

5

Walford East
  underground station

One
  of you has got an exam / test

A pair of scissors

No way!

6

Evans and Son

One of you is in love with two people

A
  train ticket

You're joking!

www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders

The London Marathon
If
you see thousands of people running in London in April it can only be one
event* - The London Marathon* !

Every year, in the second week of
April, more than
35,000 people come to London to run in the London
Marathon. The Marathon is 26 miles (42km). It's not only for professional
sports people - anybody can run in the Marathon. The oldest person to run in
the
113
True (T) or False (F)?
Use the text above to help you.
The
Marathon is held twice a year. F It's held...e.v.e.ry..yea_r....
Only Londoners can enter the London
Marathon.
You can run in the London Marathon
at any age.

You don't have to be a
professional sports person to run in the Marathon.
Professional sports people often
run in costumes.
The mini-Marathon is for children
and teenagers.
London Marathon was 91 years old
and the youngest was 18. If you are under 18 years old, you can run in the
mini-Marathon. Many people run in costumes and collect money for charity*. One
year, a couple got married* in the race too!
Work in pairs. Discuss.
Is there a
Marathon in your country? If so, when is it and where?
Would you
prefer to watch the Marathon or run in it? Give reasons.

Are you fit enough for the Marathon?
Answer the questions about your daily
life to find out how far you can run in the London Marathon.
When do you get up?
a)  I get up before 7
0'clock.
b)  Late! I get up ten
minutes before school starts.
What do you have for breakfast?
a)  I don't have time for
breakfast. I have a bar of chocolate at eleven o'clock.
b)  Eggs, muesli and a
glass of orange juice or milk.
How do you travel to school?
a)  I go by bike or on
foot.
b)  I go by bus, train or
car.
What do you do in your free time?
a)  I sit in front of my
TV or computer.
b)  I don't have any free
time, I am always busy.
5) How often do you run?
a)  Only when I am late
for the bus.
b)  All the time, when
I'm doing sport.
Now see how far you run in the London Marathon!

                                    going
, to future
Notting
Hill and the Carnival
Welcome
to Europe's biggest street festival - The Notting Hill Carnival!
August
is carnival time in London. In Notting Hill, West London, there is a big party
for two days in August. Nearly two million people come to look at the costumes,
listen to the music and dance in the streets.
The costumes
It takes a long time to make a costume
for the carnival, sometimes a year! Some of the costumes have got 200,000
sequins* on them. The best costumes win a prize*.

What costume are you going to
wear?
The food
The traditional food at the
carnival is Caribbean. There are 300 food stalls* and every year people eat
16,000 coconuts and a tonne of chicken!
You can try one of these dishes.
What are you going to eat?
Saltfish fritterS*
Curried*
goat*
Coconut
The music
The carnival is noisy! There are 40
sound systems*. They play more than 30,000 records during the carnival!
You are a DJ at a street party.
What records are you going to play?

                  Party
people                          Notting Hill carnival route

TIMESA VER LONDON! a great deal of; a couple of; plenty
of; a few; several; a bit of; allowed to

Film
It's a bit a special allowed to

Leicester
Square:                                       Certificates
London Cinemas                                                                                scary
- so are you allowed to see it? Each film has
'certificate' which means only certain people are
22 million people visit Leicestersee it. Match the
certificates to the definitions:
(pronounced 'Lester') Square                                          a)
You are not allowed to see it if you
U certificate
every year.
It's near Piccadilly                                                                                are
younger than fifteen
Circus and there are several big b) You are
not allowed to see it if you cinemas in the square itself plus PG certificate
are younger than eighteen lots more nearby.
12A certificate  c)
Everyone is allowed to see it You can go to Leicester Square when there's             d)
Children under twelve are not a première* of a big new film and you will allowed
to see it unless they are 15 certificate
see plenty of famous film stars walking
accompanied by an adult along the red carpet* to the cinema. You'll
e) Children under twelve are allowed see lots of
photographers and you might  18 certificate
to see it if their parents think it's OK even pick
up* a bit of celebrity* gossip*.
Here are some famous British actors. Take
the two letters after their names and put them in the correct order to discover
the title of a successful
British film.

n

ag VOCABULARY
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Find out!
Which British actor... had a few scary
moments in cold première has been in a few Star Wars films? water with
Leo DiCaprio?
Ewan .M.QG.r.e.ø.Qr..carpet
     has spent
a great deal of time in                 . wore a couple of pointed ears in
Hogwarts School?                                                    three
very successful films?                                                         to
pick up
celebrity has got lots female fans
because his has had plenty of experience of name is "Bond, James Bond"?
playing a shy, aristocratic Englishman?
gossip
The name of the film is:
http://movies.yahoo.com/upcoming

Music in London
London is a
great place to hear live music.
These famous
British pop stars are all singing about the future in their hit songs. Fill in
the missing words, and take the correct letter to spell the name of London's
most popular rock concert venue. Choose from these words:

YOU
  • IMPOSSIBLE • MAYBE • SAVES • HEART
DREAM • WITH • MAN • I'LL • FEED •
  STRONG • AT

Though the sea will be . .. STRONG

Well, I won't go down  this ship

I know we'll carry on, 'cos if there's somebody calling

And I won't put up my hands and surrender*

me on; she's the one.

(first
  letter =

)

(third
  letter = ... R.... )
She's the One (Robbie Williams)

White Flag (Dido)

19

Every bond* you break,

Give me just a second and I'll be alright

Every step you take,

Surely one more moment

I'll be
  watching

couldn't
  break my

(first
  letter =

)

(second letter = ........... )
Gotta Get Thru This (Daniel Bedingfield)

Every Breath You Take (Sting)
You're gonna be the one who  me

Will you still need me,

And after all, you're my wonder wall.

will you still  me

(second
  letter = ..... ...... )

When I'm sixty-four?
(third letter = ... ... ..... )

Wonderwall (Oasis)

When I'm Sixty-four (The Beatles)

For now  have to wait,
But baby, if you change your mind,
  don't be late,

I'm flying high,

(third letter = ..... ...... )

like the
  wind, reaching the                 I'll never doubt again.

Whole Again (Atomic Kitten)

                                                         (tenth
  letter =           )
Anything is Possible (Gareth Gates)

ooooooo
9         3       6       7      12      2      10

And I think it's going to be a
  long, long time
to
  find

00000

Till
touchdown* brings me round again
I'm not the  they think I am at home.
(third letter = .... ... .... ) Rocket
Man (Elton John)
6 You'll always be thethat fills my head
                                                                   (fifth
letter               )
Never had a Dream Come True (S Club 7)
Wanna take my
time for me, all me so  tomorrow I'll find my way home.
(fourth letter ..... ...... )
Maybe Tomorrow (Stereophonics)
Look  the stars, look how they shine for
you
And all the things that
you do.
(first letter = ..... ...... )
Yellow (Coldplay)

past perfect tense; too + adj + infinitive / not + adj
+ enough + infinitive
Party in the Park
Every July,
100,000 people go to Hyde Park in London for the Party in the Park.
Pop stars from
all over the world take part in a concert to raise money for the Prince's
Trust. In 2003 the Party in the Park raised £1 million, but the Prince's
Trust needs to raise £53 million every year. Why? And what is it?

The Princes's Trust

people who
  join the projects are                 helped over half a million young
  people.
ambitious enough, they can sometimes             If
  you are between 18 and 25 and if you get help from the Prince's Trust to
  start     have musical talent, you can go on a their own small businesses*. The
  Trust               one-week music course organised by the helped two
  ex-prisoners to start a fishing   Trust. You learn how to set your own club;
  it helped to train lifeguards* on the music goals, play new styles, play in a
  beaches in Cornwall, and it built a      band, perform 'live' on the last
  night of community centre on a poor housing   the course, and you get
  specialist estate*. Since 1976, the Prince's Trust has          instrument
  tuition*. It's very popular.

Who's that girl?
1
  She's a singer.
2
  Her birthday is on 21st January.
3
  She's a
  Prince's Trust Ambassador. 4 She used to be in a famous pop group.
5
  She's met Nelson Mandela.
6
  One of her best friends is married Prince Charles always goes
  to the Party in the world-famous footballer. to a
Park and sits with the performers. Who
  did he next to a few years ago? If you guess after 7 She's got blonde hair.
one clue, give yourself 10 points. If you
  guess 8 She's very rich. after two clues, give yourself 9 points, after 3
9 Her nickname used to be Baby.

It's been running since 1976. The 'prince' in the title is Prince Charles. He
realised that many young people (aged 14 - 30) were not rich enough or skilful*
enough to reach their full potential* in life. Some of them came from poor
homes and weren't rich enough to go to university. Others had been in trouble*
with the police or simply had not been lucky enough to have chances to develop
their skills. The Trust helps young people to get training and experience*.
It's got special links with sport, music and fashion, and it organises
workshops to give disadvantaged* young people some useful experience. If some
of the young
sit
clues 8 points, etc. Don't cheat! Now make up 10 clues about another
famous person. See if your friends can guess who it is.
10 Her friends' nicknames were
Ginger, Sporty, Scary and Posh.

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The
Lord Mayor's Show
It takes
place on the second Saturday in November every year. Half a million people
usually watch the procession* on the streets and three million people watch it
on TV. It was the first event* to be broadcast 'live' on television.
During the
Show, the new Lord Mayor is taken from   eighteen horse-drawn carriages. There
are fireworks

the Mansion House in the centre of the City of London,
past St Paul's Cathedral built by Sir
Christopher Wren, and on to the Law Courts in the
Strand. There he makes a promise* to serve
the Queen faithfully* for his year as Mayor, and then returns to the Mansion
House.
There is always a splendid procession. Four hundred
years ago a camel walked in the procession when the Mayor went to meet Queen
Elizabeth l. The State
Coach (the beautiful
golden carriage* carrying the Lord Mayor) is preceded by two hundred soldiers,
two hundred horses and sixty-five floats (big lorries with people in carnival
costumes). Forty-three tonnes of sand are put on the streets to protect* the
horses' feet. There are also sixteen marching bands and

The Lord Mayor's             Add the following numbers:
in the evening. The State Coach was built in 1757, but
there has been a Lord Mayor of London (and a Lord Mayor's Show) since 1 189.
You can read about it in three of Shakespeare's plays, and Canaletto and
Hogarth both painted the procession.

Legendary Londoners
Dick Whittington                           Samuel
Pepys

Read these statements about Dick
  Whittington and match the correct question tags to each one. Look at the
  alphabet letter

Match
  up the halves of these words and then find where they go in the text about
  this legendary
Londoner. The numbers on each half combine to make a new
  number between 11 and 21.

in front of each question tag
Look at the alphabet key and and put it in the space over the then put
the letters in the correct correct number in the TAG BOX places in the text and
they will to find the name of the hill spell out the name of the street where
Dick Whittington heard where the Fire of London started. the church bells.
                                                                                1
PE                8 LED
1 Dick was born in the 1350s,
....Wâ6tq't he?                            1 BE                       6
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MAR

4

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= L

= 1

Dick gave
  Mr Fitzwarren his cat instead*, and asked

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2

CAME

= A;

= D

him to sell it. Then Dick decided
  to return to

DES

9

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= E

2 EXEC 1  3 *EENTI+
2 He went to London to find
work,                                                                                5
TROYED

3 He didn't have any money,

1 FAM

7 EAT

Alphabet key

4 Mr
  Fitzwarren asked Dick to invest* money in a

1

1 RIAGE

1 1 = D;        12 = N

sailing voyage, but Dick wasn't a
  rich man,

2

14 = G,

1

o UTION

15 = N;    16
  = U

Gloucester, but the
church bells started ringing,
6     The
bells were speaking to him, saying: "Turn again, Whittington!" So
Dick turned round and went back to London where he found that Lord Fitzwarren's
ship had returned from its voyage. There had been thousands of rats in one of
the countries it had visited,
7     The
brave cat had killed all the rats and the reward*
was huge,  . So at last Dick
became rich and married Alice Fitzwarren. He was Lord Mayor of London
three times and he left all his money to the poor people of London when he
died.
8     We
all know this story because there is a famous pantomime based on it,
                             H -
didn't he?              T - didn't they?
TAG
E - isn't there?
BOX
                           G —
hadn't there?      I - was he?
A- did he?              G - wasn't it? 000@oooa
           2       4       7       1       6       3       5      8

Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle invented* the character of Sherlock
Holmes in 1887. He wrote sixty stories about his famous detective and his
friend Dr Watson between 1887 and 1927. He even tried to 'kill' Holmes in 1893,
but all the readers protested and he brought him back again in 1901 for a story
called

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

We never learn much about Holmes himself in the stories, except that he was
tall, thin, had piercing* eyes and a hawk*-like nose. He played the violin, and
was also good at fencing and boxing. He had a passionate interest in chemistry.

Conan Doyle studied medicine in Edinburgh University and this is why Holmes
uses forensic* science to solve crimes. Everyone recognises Holmes because of his
famous deerstalker hat, his magnifying glass and his pipe. Holmes lived in 221B
Baker Street. Some people think he really existed because you can visit Holmes'
'house' which is a museum dedicated to Conan Doyle's hero.

Look at these four groups of objects. Which
group comes from 221B Baker Street? Under each group of objects write either:
These
can't be from 221B Baker Street because Holmes didn't play ... / smoke ...

Cockney
Rhyming Slang
What is a Cockney?        works
by having two words or a                also by criminals* who didn't want Most
people think that a Cockney phrase. For example: Daisy Roots            the
police to know what they is anybody who is from or lives in boots). The last
word in the pair               were talking about. Because the London, but this
is not true!     rhymes with its meaning, Roots =             police had to
understand this
Cockney traditionally means a Boots. code, they had to
write it down, Londoner who lives within five However, to make this more and
that is how it became widely miles of St Mary's Church in Bow, confusing, the
rhyming slang is known.
East London. often shortened to the first word Some
Cockney rhyming slang is in the phrase. For example: Where common all over the
UK. Here are What is Cockney are my daisies? two examples:
rhyming slang?                                                Cockney
rhyming slang is                   Are you going to rabbit all night!
Cockney rhyming* slang is a slang           confusing
for a reason. It was used         (Rabbit and pork = talk) form of language
from London. in the 1800s as a code by East End           Use your loaf and think
next time!
     Most
Cockney rhyming slang         London street traders* and then        (Loaf of
bread = head)

Body parts?

Cockney rhyming slang today

Can you label the parts of

Cockney rhyming slang has recently
  become fashionable with

the body on this person using

many young people in the UK, perhaps
  because it was used in

Cockney rhyming slang?

two gangster* movies Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
  and Snatch. In fact, many young people have started making up

1

Hampstead Heath

their own modern rhyming slang. It
  makes them look cool, and

2

Mince pies

like the criminals and street traders
  before, allows them to talk

3

Plates of meat

about things without their parents
  or teachers understanding.

4

Ham and
  eggs

Modern
  rhyming slang often uses the names of famous people.

5

Boat Race

Here are three
  examples. Look at the sentences below. What do you think they mean?

1     Britney Spears

I'm going out for a few Britneys at the pub later.

Fancy coming?
Meaning =
2
Tony Blair
Hey, nice Tony. Did you get it cut?
Meaning =
3
Claire Rayner
(She's a popular agony aunt in the UK - a
person who answers people's problems in magazines.) Wow! You've got new Claire
Rayners. Are they Adidas?
Meaning =
www.
cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk
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The British Museum
Put the correct compound adjectives
  which are missing from the text into the grid to learn the name of one of the
  most famous exhibits in the British Museum.

The British Museum is the
oldest museum in the world and it covers two million years of world history and
culture. Its (1)          collection of statues, carvings, mummies* , jewels
and coins makes it a number one attraction for tourists. It has taken scholars
many years to decipher* the (2) .
hieroglyphics
(pictures and symbols) on the Egyptian tombs. Amongst the British exhibits from
the first century A.D. is Lindow Man, the
(3)          body of a man which was found in a bog*.
Lindow Man was poor, unlike the
Egyptian mummies which are (4) and
surrounded by expensive possessions. From Roman
Britain there is a wonderful (5) .
mosaic floor; from the twelfth century, the
Lewis chess men are probably the Museum's
(6) items; they are on lots of postcards and
you can buy copies of them in the Museum shop. In the African galleries you can
see a beautiful (7) Nigerian head
of a woman. But most people's favourite
items are the mummies. The Egyptian queens have
(8)
names such as
Seshepenmehit. Their bodies were found in ornate
(9)
coffins deep inside the
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
well-dressed • multi-coloured • well-read hand-carved
• strange-looking • hard-working ginger-haired • gold-painted • well-preserved
best-known • unusual-sounding • world-famous
Pyramids which were built by thousands of slaves*. The
most famous Egyptian in the British Museum is nicknamed* 'Ginger' because you
can still see the original skin and hair on this 5,000-year-old (1 1) farmer
whose body was found in the sand along with his burial goods. If you don't like
dead bodies, you can visit the
Reading Room where some of the world's most
thinkers, writers and philosophers such
as Karl Marx, Ghandi and Dickens used to sit and study.
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The .                                                              is
a wonderful treasure from the year 196 B.C.
The text in three
'languages' (Hieroglyophics, Demotic and Greek) honours Ptolemy, the Pharaoh at
that time. It was discovered in 1799.

2nd conditional
Hampton
Court

If you could travel in
  time

roast
  peacock* would probably be on

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and return to the
  sixteenth

the menu for dinner. You would be
  able

What is it in

century* , you would
  probably*

to visit the famous maze* which
  still

your
  language?

like to visit Hampton
  Court

exists*
  today. It's as much fun getting

Find
  out!

Palace which is west of
  London

lost
  in the maze now as it was then.

century

and on the banks of the
  River

Henry
  Vlll is famous for having six wives.

Thames.
  If you did, you would

probably

see that things were
  very

Elizabeth I

different in those
  days. You

Elizabeth
  went to live in Hampton Court

to
  marvel

would be surprised how
  busy

Palace
  one year after she became queen

the
  River was, and of course,

in 1558. She spent
  Christmas at the

there
  were only a few roads

Palace
  and life was wonderful. They all

deer

and you would only see
  people

enjoyed
  banquets, balls, plays, music,

on horses or going on
  foot

dancing,
  tennis, shooting and hunting.

along them. You would
  be able

The
  Great Hall of the Palace is the oldest

to marvel* at the huge
  parks

theatre in England. Explorers*
  such as

fit for

around the Palace and
  the

Sir
  Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake

deer* walking in them
(although you can still
  see

were
  often guests of Elizabeth.

peacock

them there today!).

Later Years

The
  Palace continued to have an interesting history. Sir Christopher Wren

maze

Henry Vill

built
  some new parts and both Charles I

to
  exist

Thomas
  Wolsey built the Palace with its

and
  Oliver Cromwell lived there. Samuel

280
  guest rooms and he then had to

Pepys
  was a regular visitor, and rich

explorer

give
  it to Henry Vlll as a present! As a

people
  went there to escape the Plague

time traveller, you would see
  long

in 1665.

beware
  of

galleries*
  , beautiful paintings, libraries

If
  you visited it today, you would be

full
  of books, a chapel, and 500 servants

astonished
  at how magnificent it still

rushing
  everywhere preparing meals 'fit

looks...but
  beware of* the

for*
  a king'. Roast deer, roast swan and

ghost
  of Kathryn Howard!                    www.hrp.org.uk/webcode/hampton_home.asp

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, tense
The Six Wives of
Henry Vlll
This is the rhyme which we use to remember what happened
to Henry's wives:
Divorced, beheaded, died;
Divorced, beheaded, survived.
Read the text and see if you can identify each of the
queens.

Anne of Cleves was only married

1

She married Henry in 1509;

to Henry for a few months.
Neither Katherine Parr nor Anne

she was divorced in 1533.

Boleyn were Henry's first wife.

2

She married Henry in 1533;

Jane Seymour died after giving birth to
  Henry's son, Edward.

they cut
  off her head in 1536.

She wasn't his last wife.

5 She married Henry in 1 540;

Anne Boleyn and Kathryn Howard

3

She married Henry in 1536;

they cut her head off in 1542.

were executed.
Catherine of Aragon was married

she died in 1537.

to Henry
  for twenty-four years.

6 She
  married Henry in 1543;

4

She married Henry in 1540; she

she
  died in 1 548. (Henry died

Kathryn Howard was married to Henry for two years.

was divorced in the same year.

the year before.)

Anne of Cleves

The Maze
Using the same numbers for the six wives as above, which
wife would you find if you followed these instructions?
Go to the centre of
the maze.
Follow the path out and around. When you
have to make a choice between left or right, choose right.
Follow the path round the corner and she is
standing in front of you.
The London Dungeon
The
London Dungeon is near London Bridge. It's London's scariest museum. It tells
people about London's darker past. Although it's scary*, you can also learn a
lot about history, including Boudicca, the Great Plague and Jack the Ripper.

Boudicca
In AD61 thousands of Roman soldiers and their families
were living in Britain. Boudicca (sometimes called Boadicea) was queen of the
Iceni, an English tribe*. She led the Iceni in a revolt* against the Romans.
She was very brave, but her tribe lost the war. The Iceni burned three cities
including London.
The Great Plague
In 1665 more than 100,000 people
died in the Great Plague*. The disease was carried by fleas* which lived on
black rats. The rats came off ships which sailed into London. It wasn't known
how the disease was passed from one person to another. At first it was thought
that all the dogs and cats in the city were to blame* , so 40,000 dogs and
80,000 cats were destroyed. However, the problem was made worse because the
fleas jumped straight from the rats onto people! Rich people were advised to
leave London and move to their country houses to avoid* the Plague. One third
of all those people left in London died. A red cross was painted on the door of
each house where it was known that there was a person dying of the Plague. All
the dead bodies were taken and buried in large Plague pits*. Men with carts
walked through the streets, and the shouts of "Bring out your dead"'
were often heard.

Jack
the Ripper
One of London's scariest inhabitants was Jack the
Ripper. The streets of London used to be very dangerous in Victorian times
because there was a lot of poverty*, homelessness* and crime* especially in the
East End near Whitechapel. Five women were brutally* murdered in ten weeks in
1888 by a man known as 'Jack the Ripper'. 600
policeman tried to solve the crime, but he was never caught. Several famous
people were suspected* including Queen Victoria's son, the Queen's doctor and
Walter Sickert, a well-known artist.
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The
Prime Suspect
Many
theories have been put forward about the identity of Jack the Ripper.
Choose
the correct verb to complete each sentence below, and join the appropriate dots
on the grid. It will spell a word.

2) Patricia Cornwell, the
famous American detective              Some people say that the royal doctor
was

writer,
  is known (6 - 9) / is convinced ((íÛ) that the Ripper was
  Walter Sickert, the artist.
She
  has even spent her own money on DNA tests  which were carried out (4 — 5 ) /
  were taken out (12 - 13) on letters written by the Ripper.
Some
  letters were sent (1 1 - 1 2) / were brought (4 — 7) to the police by the
  Ripper but others were fakes, written by journalists.
          One letter was signed (3 - 6) /
  was chosen
(1 1 —
  13) with the words: "Catch me if you can."
The
  Ripper was told (9 — 11) / was described (1 — 2) by witnesses as being a
  short man with a beard who spoke with a foreign accent.
Queen Victoria's son, was
  inspected (5 - 8) / was suspected (12-14) of being the Ripper.
7)
  There was a rumour that he had been married (5 - 6) / has married (13-1 6) in
  secret to a working-class girl in Whitechapel.
                       4            7            9

persuaded (8 - 10) / was given (2
  - 3) to kill the girl's five friends to keep the secret safe.
9)
  The doctor had been blessed (7 - 9) / had been knighted (7 - 8) by the Queen,
  and received the title 'Sir'. His first name was William.
People
  say that he wanted the marriage to be taken (5 — 7) / to be kept (1 - 4)
  secret because the girl had had a baby.
Jack was
  spoken (3 - 4) was called (2 - 5) 'the Ripper' because he ripped (cut) the
  bodies of his victims.
Another suspect was a schoolteacher
  called Druitt, but his body was found (9 - 10) / was appeared (1 — 5) in the
  Thames in December 1888.
If
  the dots below have been joined (15 - 16) / have been left (1 1 - 14)
  correctly, you can see the surname of the royal doctor. You already know his
  first name and his title.
    11                        13

9)
O)
      3            6            8           10          12          14          15          16

Westminster and the Houses of Parliament
The Palace of
Westminster, as it used to be called, is one of the oldest buildings in London.
It's now the centre of British politics*. Complete the multi-word verbs in the
text using words from the list.

at • on • place
• out on • at • -about- • after place • on • up • around down • up • up •
around up • on • away • down
How
Did it All Come (l) . ..A.bout ?
In 1014 the Anglo-Saxons and the Norwegian
Vikings sailed (2) the River Thames. Danish Vikings stood (3) London Bridge and
threw spears* and stones (4) them, but the Norwegians pulled
(5)          roofs from
houses to protect their boats. They used ropes to pull the bridge down.
Finally, after many battles, a fierce Danish warrior* called Canute became King
of England in 1016. He called (6)     everyone to live in peace. After he died,
King Edward the Confessor carried (7) with his good work and built London's
first great building*: Westminster Abbey. An earlier church (St Peter's) stood
(8)   the site* before. While the new Abbey was going (9)              Edward
could look (10) it from his home - the Palace of Westminster which was nearby.
Sadly, he passed . a week after the Abbey was finished.
Re-building the Abbey
200 years later, Henry
Ill pulled it (12)    and built a new abbey. Monks looked (13)          the
farmland around it and grew herbs* (for medicine). You can still go (14)               the
900-year-old Abbey garden.
Every king or queen since
William the Conqueror (1066) has been crowned in the Abbey. The last royal
coronation* took (15)             in 1953. Lots of kings, queens and other
famous people are buried there too. When Henry V died, his battle horses were
led (16)         to the altar* with his body. Visitors can walk (17)             the
Abbey when there are no church services and can see the memorials put (18)        to
people like Shakespeare and Chaucer.
The Houses of Parliament
Royal Christmas feasts* ,
coronation banquets and trials* have taken (19) in Westminster Hall which is
the oldest part of the palace still remaining. In 1834 a terrible fire wiped
(20) a lot of the old palace. It was rebuilt, and contains 1,000 rooms. It
contains the House of Commons (the main parliament) and the House of Lords
where people with noble titles (Lord, Lady, Sir, etc) discuss laws
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building
site
herbs
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altar
feast
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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes
was one of the group of men who plotted to blow up the

Houses of Parliament in 1605.
The Roman Catholic plotters wanted the Protestant
King James to
be more tolerant to Catholics. One plotter sent a letter to warn a friend not
to go the Houses of Parliament. The King found out and his guards searched the
cellars of Parliament and found Guy Fawkes.

Go through the maze joining up the

multi-word verbs which complete the

     It
  was late at night when Guy Fawkes .                                       to

sentences. If you join them up
  correctly

the cellars of the Houses of
  Parliament. He looked round for

and take the alphabet letters in the corners of the squares
  you will see the

    somewhere
  to sit. At first he .                                       on one of the

name of the leader of the plotters.

barrels, but then he felt tired so he
  - on the floor. He fell asleep for a few minutes but when he heard a noise.
  He
. quickly and hid
  behind a barrel. A voice . "Who's there?! "
Suddenly a group of guards ..
and one of the barrels.
  They the corner and saw something move. Guy almost . as he tried to but they
  him and caught him. He was .
tortured and executed and
  a few days later all the other plotters were caught and killed too. Now
  English people burn a 'guy' on a bonfire each
November 5th to remind everyone of
  that moment

START

in history.

went

sat

lay

lay

put

down

down

down

in

on

got

got up

woke

off

sat

passed

called

called

came

carried

out

out

on

gave

burst

knocked

came

ran

up

in

over

round

after

came

broke

brought

run

across

down

up

over

used to
London
Parks
London has
more parks and big gardens than almost any other capital city.
Put the
correct missing words in the sentences and then put the words into the trees
and you can find the name of the London park which has an open air theatre.
During the summer you can watch Shakespeare's plays when it isn't raining.

Hyde Park
Hyde Park is
the 1              largest. . central
London Park. It used to be a royal hunting forest and
sometimes 2 used to go there to 3 .
duels*. There's a big lake in the middle of Hyde Park
called the Serpentine. Some people swim in the Serpentine on Christmas Day.
Kensington Gardens
Part of the lake is in Kensington Gardens. 4 wild bulls*
and wild
boar* used to live there a long time ago. Speakers'
Corner is in Hyde Park near
Marble Arch. It's a place where
5 . can go to make a speech on a Sunday afternoon.
There's a 6 of Peter Pan in the park
and also a tree full of carved* elves* called The Elfin
Oak.
St James's Park
There is an old French game called paille maille. It's
like croquet* and Charles Il used to play this game in St James's Park. The
road next to it is now called Pall Mall.

Tree 1

Regent's Park
Regent's Park also used
to be a hunting forest. Over one hundred 7        ago people used to 8      things
on canals.

You can still hire boats on the Regent's Canal and sail to Camden in north
London. And of course there's the Zoo in Regent's Park where people used to
visit Guy the gorilla.
Holland Park
Holland Park is a pretty little park near
Notting Hill and it's full of bluebells* in spring time.
Richmond Park King 9    the First
used to enjoy hunting and he made Richmond an enclosed*
park in 1632. It's one of the largest enclosed parks
in 10      There are 600 deer in this huge 11 and ducks
and swans on the ponds. 600,000 years ago lions and rhinoceroses used to live
there.

Tree 2

statue years people anyone
  fight transport

park
Britain Charles wolves

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duel
bull
boar
carved
elves
croquet
bluebell
enclosed
www.royalparks.gov.uk

Art
in London
Pick the
correct passive verbs in the text to discover what has made the ten British
artists on the bottom half of this page famous.
Most people 1
....ar.e...ve.ry..j.mp.reseed           are very interested (j) / are-veg Tate
Modern impressed (f) by the amount of art on display in London. The
National Gallery in Trafalgar Square has one of the largest collections of
pictures in the world. Paintings by Da Vinci, Titian, Velasquez, Holbein and
many others 2  are exhibited (c) / are extended (a)
there. The National Portrait Gallery 3 . has found itself (i) /
is situated (a) just around the corner from the National Gallery. Tate Britain
is on the River Thames and it's near the Houses of Parliament. There are a lot
of modern paintings there as well as pictures by Turner and Constable, but many
of the very recent ones 4 .. have been borrowed (j) / have been taken
(g) to Tate Modern. Tate Modern used to be a power station with a gigantic
turbine* hall which is now a gallery, and it's
                          5 .                      linked
(h) / lined (b) to St Paul's

1 Stubbs (1724-1806)

a)
  his paintings of sea, sky, ships

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is best known for

and landscapes

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2 Constable (1776-1837)

b) his paintings of ladies in big

your
  language?

is best known for

long
  dresses with large curly

Find
  out!

3 Turner (1775-1851)

silver wigs

turbine

is best known for

c)
  his paintings of English country

4 Blake (1757-18270

landscapes

wobbly

is best known for

d)
  his paintings of British northern

industrial towns full of

responsible for

5 Hogarth (1697-1764)

'matchstick* men'

is best known for

e) his paintings of Californian

matchstick

6 Gainsborough (1727-1788)

swimming pools and 1960s people

is best known for

mystical

7 David Hockney (1937-)

f) his paintings of horses

is best known for

g)
  his mystical* religious paintings

satirical

8 Lowry (1887-1976)

h)
  his satirical* drawings of 18th

is best known for

century London life

Cathedral by a bridge 6 . called (c) / known (b) as 'The Wobbly*
Bridge' because it used to move when a lot of people walked on it. Tate Modern
7 . . was engineered (d) / was designed (e) by Giles Gilbert Scott who was also
the architect responsible for* Liverpool's new cathedral and London's red
telephone boxes. Art enthusiasts 8 . . are transported (d) / are translated (j)
from Tate Modern to Tate Britain by a boat service called 'Tate to Tate'. In
Tate Modern you can see paintings by modern artists such as Andy Warhol,
Picasso and Lichtenstein and 'op art' (optical illusions) by Bridget Riley.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
allowed to;
irregular past tense
Pubs and Clubs
Many
of the pubs in London have been there for hundreds of years.
The 'club scene' is more recent. You
can dance to all kinds of music: garage, techno, hip hop and rock. Many of the
clubs have age limits* and rules about how you are allowed to dress.

You
  are not allowed to buy an alcoholic drink in

closes.
  You aren't allowed to take children into a

agreed

a pub if you are under eighteen.
  Recently* the

pub
  unless the pub has a restaurant. Some pubs

fell

laws
  have changed and some pubs are allowed

have
  beer gardens and families are allowed to

stood

to serve drinks all day. Before
  the pubs close, the

sit
  outside. People enjoy sitting round a table

was

landlord*
  shouts, "Last orders!" and people are

with
  a drink telling jokes and clever stories like

smiled

allowed
  to buy one more drink before the pub

this one. Put the correct verbs
  into the spaces.

poured

came

A
philosophy professor (1)                     before his class and
(2)
filling a large glass jar with rocks. The students (3) that the jar (4) full.
So the professor (5) and picked up a box of small pebbles* and poured them into
the jar. The pebbles, of course,
(6)
into the small spaces. Then the professor (7) a box of sand into the jar, (8)
it, and the sand completely filled the jar.
"This
jar represents your life, " said the professor. "The rocks are the
important things - your family, your health; if you
(9)
everything else, your life would still be full, The pebbles are the smaller
things that matter — your job, your house, your car. The sand represents the
trivial* things. If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for
the pebbles or the rocks, just like life. Take care of the rocks first— the
things that really matter. The rest is just sand. "
Then a
student (10) to the front of the class and poured a can of beer into the jar
and it was easily absorbed*. The moral of this tale is: No matter how full your
life is, there is always room for beer.

began lost shook
Ae 017
Cheshire
Cheese
[BUILT 1661
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in your language? Find out! limit
recently
landlord
pebble
trivial
to absorb
www.pubs.com

Greenwich
The best way to visit Greenwich is to go by boat
  from Westminster pier.
Greenwich
  is the home of the National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum (designed by Sir
Christopher Wren) has got a big collection of maps, manuscripts, models of
famous ships and portraits of famous sailors and explorers.
The Royal Observatory was built in 1678 to solve the
problem of finding longitude - a ship's exact position east and west while at
sea and out of sight of land. Early sailors used the stars to help them navigate
and they could tell the time from the position of the sun.
However, they needed to know
and the Royal Observatory.
what the time was at a fixed
reference point* because time moves forwards and backwards every 1 50 one
travels (east or west). Clocks were not accurate* at sea, and each country had
its own zero meridian*. In 1884, at a conference in Washington, USA, most
countries in the world agreed to make Greenwich the source* of the prime*
meridian (00).
You can also find out about the
night sky at the planetarium in Greenwich.

Put
the times on the clocks and use the semaphore code to find out a fact about a
very cold planet.

Charles
Dickens
Charles
Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and died in London in 1870. He is buried
in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Victorian
London
Dickens spent most
of his life in London and often used to walk between ten and twenty miles* all
over the city when he was unable to sleep and was thinking about the plot of a
new novel. While walking, he used to observe the sights, sounds and smells of
London in order to write about them. In 1800 there were one million people in
London, but by 1880 there were four and a half million! Because of the
Industrial Revolution, Britain, and especially London, grew very quickly.
People used to travel through the streets of
London in horse-drawn carriages. Every hour at least one thousand carriages
crossed London Bridge, so there used to be a lot of mess* on the streets from
the horses!

It also used to be a noisy city because people who were selling things used to
shout to advertise their goods. People used to drink water from the Thames so
it's not surprising that many of them used to get very ill and many people died
of cholera. The city used to smell and it was also very dirty. Smoke used to
pour from the chimneys of thousands of houses and factories; the streets were
dark because there only used to be gas lamps, and the dark alleys* were full of
beggars*, thieves* and people who were drunk.
Poverty
London used to be a terrible place for poor people,
especially children. In 1839 nearly half of all the funerals* in London were
for children under the age of ten. Those who survived had little or no
education and Dickens believed that education was the way to break the cycle of
poverty as it had done for him. In his books he used to expose all
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alley
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thief
funeral
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installment
soap opera
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these awful social* problems.                      www.dickens/dickens'
london map.html
Dickens' novels

Dickens used to publish all his stories in serialised form. People used to read
weekly installments* of his novels in magazines and he became a publishing
phenomenon. Each installment used to end with a 'cliff-hanger' - a dramatic
moment which left everyone desperate to know what happened next, just like
today's modern soap operas*. Dickens said: "l make them laugh; I make them
cry; I make them wait." Solve the clues below, write them in the grid, and
you will see the name of all Dickens' novels. In the shaded squares you will
also see the name of one of his most famous characters. When you see CAPITAL
LETTERS, just copy them into the grid.

A number between 1 and 3 (P4)
Shared by two or more people (H2)
Miserable, gloomy (B 1)
A place where you buy things (1<4)
An organ which takes poison from the body (A2)
English name for the Christmas saint (J 1)
You use a timetable to find the - of trains (Q)
A reddish-brown coloured metal (N2)
To think something is going to arrive (02)
A verb often confused with make (M2) Farm
building where cows live (DI) Preposition meaning near or next to (D3)
A girl's name and Christmas song (1.3)
A meadow where cows live (N3)
Preposition meaning near or next to (J3)
Pages of a book are made from it (13) Fibre
or cord in a candle which burns (12)
A conjunction, eg fish — chips (O)
A fascinating object or desire to know things (1<3)
A big December holiday (1.2)
Where people live (B2)

Opposite of soft (G 1)
Definite article (K 1)
Indefinite article (PI ) Humour (F4)
Short for Edward (El)
Large towns (P5)
A pal (H3)
I (04) OOD (E4) s (06)
Opposite of new (1<2)
Short for Doctor (E3) A cheap metal (F2)
story (P2) MAR (Fl)
Opposite of lose (Q)
MBEY (Q)
A cup - tea (P3)

Indefinite article (L 1)
Very big (01)
Opposite of big (Ml)
RUDGE (D4)
Mother, father, daughter O (Al)
To turn (A3)
How do you - ? (C 1)
A (D2)
CHUZZLE (F3)
I get up — seven o'clock (03)
I sleep late — Sundays
(05)
DAVID (NI)
RRIT (M3)
NICKIE
02)
Belonging to us (HI )
To take or choose (Il)

Answers
Pages 8 & 9                                                                                Buying
a travel card I ticket.
Arriving in London                                                                                Tourist:
A one-day travelcard to London, please.
1   1 Heathrow, 2 Gatwick, 3 Luton, 4
Stansted, 5 City                (Not please a one-day travelcard)
Travel assistant: That's
£4.90 please.
2   You go to passport control
Tourist: Here's £5.00.
3   You go to baggage reclaim
Travel assistant:
Thank you. Here's your ticket and change. Tourist: Thank you.
Pages 12
& 13
Going
by Tube
1 — Central, 2 - Circle,
3 — Piccadilly, 4- Victoria,
5 — Northern, 6 —
District, 7 — Bakerloo,
8 — Hammersmith and City,
9 — Jubilee, 10 — Metropolitan, 1 1 - Waterloo and City, 12 — Docklands Light
Railway
Finish these sentences:

a three, b Paddington and
Notting Hill Gate, c Piccadilly
5 You go to the Exit                                                                               Pages
14 & 15
6The London Eye

Name of airport

Where do you arrive?

How long
  does it take?

How much
  does it cost?

Heathrow

Paddington

15 mins

Gatwick

Victoria

30 mins

Stansted

Liverpool Street

45 mins

Luton

London Bridge

30 mins

A great
view!
1 Trafalgar
Square, 2 Tower Bridge, 3 Big Ben, 4 St Paul's Cathedral, 5 A black taxi
How much does it cost?
1 £16.50, 2 £100.00, 3 £20.00, 4
£22.00, 5 £40.00
Pages 16
& 17
The
Tower of London
Numbers search
A = three
hundred (in the Crown Jewels paragraph)
Pages 10 & 11                                                                                B
= seven (in the ravens paragraph)
London
transport C = nine hundred (in the introduction) Help the tourist! D = forty
(in the Beefeaters paragraph)
1 = bus 1 e,
2 = bus 88 c, 3 = bus 42 d, bus 159 b, bus 1 1 a            Escape from the Tower
Travelcard

Pages 18 & 19
The River Thames
Frogtours

Pages 20 & 21
London Football Clubs
Which player?
1 = David James; 2 =
David James; 3 = David James;
4 = Hernan Crespo
Mascots

Football chants:
1 Chelsea; 2 Tottenham; 3
= West Ham
Pages 22 & 23
Madame Tussaud's
1 George Bush, 2 Kylie
Minogue, 3 David Beckham,
4 Jennifer Lopez
In the modelling room
1 It's the Queen's hair.
2 It's James Bond's arm. 3 It's Charlie Chaplin's moustache. 4 They're Marilyn
Monroe's legs.
Page 24
Buckingham Palace

Page 25
The London Butterfly House
Find the butterflies

Pages 26 & 27
Hamleys
Which floor?
1 fifth floor, 2 basement, 3 first floor, 4 third floor,
5 second floor
Speaking
1 basement, 2
second floor, 3 first floor, 4 first floor, 5 ground floor and third floor, 6
the ground floor and the fifth floor
Pages 28 & 29
Harrods
Rules of the shop
1   can't, 2 can't, 3 can, 4 can't, 5
can, 6 can't
Problems, problems 1 It's too big.
2   They are too short.
3   My mother already has one of these.
4   It's got a hole in it.
5

It's broken (The zip is
broken).
Take it back
Shop Assistant: Can I
help you?
Customer: Yes, it's this
jumper.
Shop Assistant: OK.
What's the problem with it?
Customer: It's too big
Shop
Assistant: Would you like an exchange or refund? Customer: I'd like an
exchange. I'd like this jumper in a smaller size.
Shop Assistant: That's
fine. Have you got the receipt? Customer: Yes, here it is.
Pages 30 & 31
London's Markets

At the market
1 is £10.00, 2 is £25.00, 3 are
£1.50, 4 are £0.30, 5 is £60.00,
6 are £20.00
Pages 32 & 33
London's Theatreland
London musicals

Booking a ticket

Pages 34 & 35
Dogs in London
Spot the dog

Pet Quiz!

Pages 36 & 37
Eating out: Food in London
Food dishes
1 fish and chips, 2
noodles, 3 curry, 4 cheeseburger, 5 pizza,
Fish and chips: "Open or wrapped?"
If you say 'open' you can
eat your chips immediately. If you say 'wrapped'. They will put your chips in
paper to keep them warm so you can eat them at home.
Restaurant names
1   Planet Hollywood = American,     5
Wok Wok = Chinese,
2   Masala Zone = Indian,    6 The Chippy
= English
3   Yo! Sushi = Japanese,      7
Café Rouge = French,
4   Pizza Express = Italian,    8 Noodle
Time = Chinese
At the restaurant
The dish is traditional
fish and chips with vinegar.
Who says it?

Ready to order? (W)

Table for two please. (C)

I'm a vegetarian. (C)

I'd like to pay please. (C)

I'm allergic to nuts. (C)

Where would you like to sit? (W)

Would you like some

Can I have another fork? (C)

pepper? (W)
Would you like anything to drink?
  (W)

I'd like the green salad. (C)

Pages 38 & 39
Everyday Londoners
Writing home: suggested answers
Dear Mum / Dad
How are you?
I arrived in London on Tuesday.
I'm living in
a bedsit in Clapham / Kensington. The most difficult thing about living in
London is finding a place to live and understanding the transport system.
The best
thing about living in London is the nightlife.
Hope you are
all well.
I will call you next week Love Anna.
Calling for a job
Gianni is too casual and
chatty.

Suggested answers for Mr Briggs Yes,
speaking, How can I help?
Yes, we're still looking
for people.
Yes, of course. It's a part-time job. We are looking
for somebody who can work evenings from 5pm -1 Ipm, six days a week. It's
£550 an hour. Have you got any experience of waiting?
That sounds great We're
having interviews this Tuesday at 3pm. Would you like to come?
Pages 40 & 41
The Boat Race

graaaaamaa

Boat Race statistics
1 fastest,
2  heaviest,
3  lightest,
5  smallest,
6  tallest,
7  woman, 8 first,
9 female.

The oldest person to take part
in the Boat Race was ANDY PROBERT who was 38. He was the Cambridge cox in 1992.
In 1912 both boats SANK
Pages 42 & 43
Wimbledon: The Home of Tennis
Wimbledon rules
1 must, 2 mustn't, 3
must, 4 mustn't, 5 mustn't
Tennis talk

Pages 44 & 45
Theme Parks Around London
The Tomb Blaster Puzzle
The correct choices spell
the words: The Forbidden Kingdom.
Five stars
extreme — five stars, intense - four stars, thrilling — three stars, fun for
the family — two stars; for little children — one star.
Page 47
The London Aquarium
The correct
choices spell out the sentence: More people in the U.S. are killed by bees than
sharks.
Pages 48 & 49
London Zoo
The zoo maze
couldn't , transferred, arrived, walked, doubled, poked, died, opened, bit,
ate, hurried, came, took, bred. The okapi are also known by the popular name of
jungle giraffes
Pages 50 & 51
EastEnders

Pages 52 & 53
The London Marathon
True or false?
2 False. 3 False. You
have to be over 18. 4 True. 5 False.
People collecting money
for charity run in costumes. 6 True.
Pages 54 & 55
Notting Hill and the Carnival
Party people
1   = She's going to win the costume
competition.
2   = He's going to be sick.
3   = She's going to have a headache.
4   = He's going to steal the mobile
phone. 5 = He's going to get sunburn.

©

Notting Hill Carnival Route
The carnival is on August the 23rd. The date of the
carnival can vary from year to year, but is always on the bank holiday weekend
at the end of August.
Page 56
Leicester Square: London Cinemas
Film certificates
U -c, PG -e, 12A- d, 15 - a, 18 - b.
The correct answers in
the film star puzzle spell out the name of the film: Love Actually.
Page 57
Music in London
The missing words are:
1 strong, 2
heart, 3 feed, 4 impossible, 5 man, 6 dream, 7 maybe, 8 at, 9 with, 10 you, 11
saves, 12 1'll.
The name of the concert
venue is WEMBLEY ARENA.
Page 58
Party in the Park
Who's that girl?
The mystery person
sitting next to Prince Charles is Emma Bunton who used to sing with the Spice
Girls.
Page 59
The Lord Mayor's Show
The correct figures in
the maths problem are:
(Total A):
16, 2, 3, 18, 1757, 65, 43, 200 = 2104. (Total B): 200, 52 = 252. Total A minus
Total B = 1852, the year of the Duke of Wellington's funeral.
Pages 60 & 61
Legendary Londoners
Dick Whittington:
The correct choices spell
HIGHGATE. This is a region in the north of London, near Hampstead Heath.
Samuel Pepys:
The correct missing words
are: seventeenth, diary, marriage, execution, ruled, became, famous, great,
people, destroyed, built. The letters in the grid therefore spell out the name:
PUDDING LANE.
Sherlock Holmes:
1     These can't be from 221B Baker Street
because Holmes didn't play tennis.
2

These can't be from 221B Baker
Street because Holmes didn't play the trumpet.
3     These must be from 221B Baker Street
because Holmes played the violin, wore a deer stalker hat, used a magnifying
glass, was a fencer and liked chemistry.
4     These can't be from 221B Baker Street
because Holmes didn't wear a baseball cap, he didn't like painting and he
didn't play football.
Page 62
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Body parts
1   Hampstead Heath = teeth
2   Mince pies = eyes 3 Plates of meat =
feet
4  Ham and eggs = legs
5  Boat Race = face
Modern rhyming slang
1   Britney Spears = beers
2   Tony Blair = hair
3   Claire Rayners = trainers
Page 63
The British Museum
1   world-famous,
2   strange-looking,
3   well-preserved,
4   well-dressed,
5   multi-coloured,
6   best-known,
7   hand-carved,
8   unusual-sounding,
9   gold-plated,
10 hard-working, 11 ginger-haired, 12 well-read.
The shaded letters
therefore spell 'Rosetta Stone'.
Pages 64 & 65
Hampton Court
The Six Wives of Henry Vlll
1   Catherine of Aragon;
2   Anne Boleyn;
3   Jane Seymour;
4   Anne of Cleves;
5   Kathryn Howard; 6 Katherine Parr.
The Maze

The wife you would meet in the
maze is Catherine of Aragon, wife number 1 .
Pages 66 & 67
The London Dungeon
The prime suspect
1 is
convinced; 2 were carried out;
3  were sent;
4  was signed;
5  was described;
6  was suspected;
7  had been married;
8  was persuaded; 9 had been knighted;
10  to be kept;
11  was called;
12  was found;
13  have been joined.
When all the dots have
been joined correctly, they spell out the word: gull. Sir William Gull was the
name of the royal doctor who was a possible suspect in the Ripper murders. It
is said that he was covering up for the Queen's son.
Page 68
Westminster and the Houses of
Parliament
1 about; 2
up; 3 on; 4 at; 5 down; 6 on; 7 on; 8 on; 9 up; 10 at; 11 away; 12 down; 13
after; 14 around; 15 place; 16 up; 17 around; 18 up; 19 place; 20 out.
Page 69
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder
Plot
The correct choices of
verb spell out the name Robert
Catesby

Page 70
London Parks

Page 71
Art in London

Page 72
Pubs and Clubs
1 stood, 2 began, 3
agreed, 4 was, 5 smiled, 6 fell, 7 poured, 8 shook, 9 lost, 10 came.
Page 73
Greenwich
Pluto takes 248 years to
go round the Sun.

Pages 74 & 75

Writers: Sarah Johnson and Jane Myles
Design: Christine Cox
Cover design: Eddie Rego Illustrator:
Steve Lillie
Picture research: Emma Bree
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photocopy the pages you need! A full answer key is included.
Other titles in the
Timesavers series
Here is a selection of some of the latest books to be published in this
series.
You can download sample pages from our books from the Teachers'
Resource Centre on our website:               www.link2englishcom

Language and Culture

FESTIVALS AND
SPECIAL DAYS IN BRITAIN
(Pre-intermediate -
Upper-Intermediate)
An enjoyable and interactive introduction
to British culture with lots of photocopiable exercises and activities. Many
traditional celebrations are covered such as Pancake Day, Christmas and Guy
Fawkes Night, as well as the more contemporary face of British culture
including Ramadan and the Notting Hill Carnival. This book provides a rich and
detailed picture of multicultural Britain in the third millenium.
ISBN: 1-900702-40-1

Language Practice

TIMESAVER VISUAL GRAMMAR
(Elementary -
Intermediate)
A comprehensive collection of the main
grammar points covered at elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate levels,
practised through a series of fun and lively picture prompts. Ideal for
consolidation and further practice of recently acquired structures, either in
class or for self-study.
ISBN: 1-904720-01-3
TIMESAVER RAPS!
(Elementary —
Pre-intermediate)
ELT songs and jazz chants are brought right up to date with
25 cool raps to support lexical and grammatical development. Fun activities
extend the language points with a comprehensive index to help the teacher find
the right rap.
ISBN: 1-900702-21-5

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Для учащихся среднего и старшего звена.
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Содержит в себе актуальную, современную информацию о жизни ЛОНДОНА.
Благотворно влияет на словарный запас, благодаря современным текстам, позволяет учить "Живой" язык

доп. образование детей

group: Другое

title: ВСЕ О ЛОНДОНЕ