Webquest - A Business Trip to London

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The Jubilee Walkway

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The Jubilee Walkway is a London walking trail and is an ideal way of getting to know London.

London - Slide Show

London Quiz 1
London Quiz 2
London Quiz 3
London Quiz 4



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You&Me 3 - Unit 4

Postcards from London: Gap-Fill-in-Exercise
Study and Change: Text Reconstruction
some/any and Compounds: Gap-Fill-in-Exercise

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Shopping in London

London has lots of shops and big stores. There are also street markets which are really interesting.

Portobello Road is a great antique market which is open on Saturdays. You can find old furniture and vintage clothes there.



Petticoat Lane is the Cockney market. It is open on Sunday mornings and perhaps you can see a "Pearly King" and a "Pearly Queen".


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Covent Garden was once the old fruit and vegetable market.
Now Covent Garden is a busy, but expensive place. There are lots of shops and cafes. The best time to go there is Saturday afternoon. Lots of people, mostly tourists watch the funny shows of artists and musicians.

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Harrods is London's most famous department store. It is situated in Knightsbridge and very expensive. You can buy everything there, even an elephant.



Oxford Street is London's most popular shopping mall. This street is more than a mile long. The biggest shops are Selfridges, John Lewis and D.H. Evans. Carnaby Street is a great place for young people. It’s not expensive to shop there and there are lots of music shops, boutiques for young fashion, leather and souvenirs.

Parks in London

Hyde Park

People walk in that large park or sit in the grass. There is a lake called Serpentine where you can swim.


At Speakers' Corner people meet on Sunday morning and talk about anything.


Regent's Park

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In Regent's Park there is the London Zoo with more than 6000 animals. In summer you can see theatre plays there.

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St. James's Park

St James's Park is the oldest and smallest park. It is near Buckingham Palace. Its lakes and gardens are beautiful.

Mind the Gap

The Tube - The London Underground

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The London Underground, or the Tube, as it is known to Londoners, is normally the quickest and easiest way of getting around London with 275 stations. Most people in London use the Tube.
The first section of the London Underground Railway was opened on January 10, 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon Street. Today London is served by 12 Tube lines. Underground trains on all lines run every few minutes between 5.30 until 00:30 Monday to Saturday, and between 7.30 - 23.30 on Sundays.





You can get a map for the entire Underground system free of charge from all train station ticket offices. No smoking is allowed on the Underground, either on trains or stations themselves. Smoking is also not allowed on buses.

Trains and platforms are described as Eastbound, Westbound, Northbound or Southbound depending on the direction of the line. The front of the train, and the platform indicator, will show the ultimate destination of the train - usually, but not always, the last station on the line.

If the station you are travelling to is not on the same line as the one where you start your journey, you need to change trains at any stations where two lines meet. For some journeys you may need to change lines twice.
Each line has its own unique colour, so you can easily follow them on maps and signs throughout the system.

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London - Introduction and History

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INTRODUCTION

London is the biggest city in Britain. More than seven million people live and work there.
London is also one of the most important cities in the world. It is a centre for business and for tourism.
In London you can find some of the best theatres and museums in the world. You can find old and new buildings, and many beautiful parks.


HISTORY of LONDON

The Romans
The Romans came to England in AD 43. They built a town on the River Thames. The name of the town was Londinium. The Romans chose a good place for the town.

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William the Conqueror
In 1066, William the Conqueror came to England. William came from Normandy in France. He became King of England and lived in London.
But William was afraid of the people of London. He built a big building for himself - the White Tower. Now it is part of the Tower of London.

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Shakespeare's London
Shakespeare was bom in Stratford-on-Avon in 1564. Later, he lived in London. Shakespeare wrote thirty-six plays. They are still read and acted all over the world.
The plays were acted in the Globe Theatre. The theatre was demolished in 1644.


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The Great Fire
The houses in Shakespeare's London were built very close to one another. They were made of wood. Sometimes there were small fires.
On Saturday 2nd September 1666, there was a big fire. lt started in the house of the King's baker, in Pudding Lane, near London Bridge.
The baker's wífe woke up in the middle of the night. The house was burning. Soon the next house started burning. Then the next and the next ... The fire fumed until Thursday.
Most of London was burnt. A quarter of a million people lost their homes.

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Dickens' London
People built houses again after the Great Fire. But they built them of stone and brick.
The city grew larger and larger. By 1830, there were more than one and a half million people in London.
The railways came. There were factories all over the city. London became richer and richer.
But there were also other changes. The city became dark and dirty. The air was full of smoke. People lived in very bad houses. Some very poor people did not have houses. They slept in buildings with beds for homeless people.
Charles Dickens lived from 1812 to 1870. He lived in London for many years. In his books we read about London at that time.

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We read about the rich people in their big houses. And we read about the poor people. Many of the London poor had little to eat.
Most children did not go to school. Some of them worked all day in factories. Other children lived in the streets. Every day children died in the streets of London.
But London is better now. The city is much cleaner. And many Londoners work in offices or shops. But a lot of people still work in factories.

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London Sights

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