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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.

4 5 6

9 10

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.

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 >

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.

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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.

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"Welcome to the one and only Frogtour.

The best way to see the sights of London!"

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The Tower of London

St Paul's Cathedral

HMS Belfast

The London Eye

The Houses of Parliament

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.

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 28⁰and 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.

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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

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.

Every year there is a new toy craze*.

Design a toy that every child will want and describe it.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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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

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

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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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.

A N S

D S S

I S

R E G E

O B L

E R G

H I

A S A

A N U

E A

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

"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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championship	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 360⁰loop*. 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*

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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.

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? VOCABULARY CHECK 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

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

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.						VOCABULARY CHECK LIST What is it in your language? 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!
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.

ag VOCABULARY

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What is it in your language?

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.

VOCABULARY

CHECK LIST What is it in your language? Find out! skilful

potential

in trouble

experience

disadvantaged

small business

lifeguard

housing estate

tuition

www.princes-trust.org passives; , numbers and dates

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 ARY

	MAR	4	OUS	= L	= 1
Dick gave Mr Fitzwarren his cat instead*, and asked	-SE¥Ee+	2	CAME	= A;	= D
him to sell it. Then Dick decided to return to	DES	9	OPLE	= 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

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

trader

criminal

gangster

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

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.

VOCABULARY

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What is it in your language? Find out!

mummy

to decipher

bog

slave

to nickname

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	CHECK LIST
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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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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tribe

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pit

poverty

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crime

brutally

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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

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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spear

warrior

building

site

herbs

coronation

altar

feast

trial

suggested by Members of Parliament in the House of Commons. www.bonfirenight.net/index.php

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
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.

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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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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	VOCABULARY
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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.

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recently

landlord

pebble

trivial

to absorb

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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 5⁰one 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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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.

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






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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.

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

Cover photos: Imagestate; A. Meridith / Aviation Library; S. Barbour, J. Watson / Getty Images; Photodisc; Visit London.

Photos: Pages 8-11, 25, 32, 36, 42, 47-49, 71: Hemera. Pages 8-10, 11, 14, 16, 36, 38: Photodisc.

Pages 10, 14-16, 18, 24, 28, 31, 64, 65, 68, 70-73: Visit London. Pages 11 & 14: Imagestate. Page 16: Historic Royal Palaces. Pages 20 & 21: C. Mason, J. McDonald, P. Cole, B. Radford, R. Kinnaird, M. Ashton, S. Forster, C. Brunskill,

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Escape from the Tower You are a prisoner*

Frogtours! How do you go sightseeing without all the traffic?

Welcome to the one and only

London Football Clubs What is

Weight: 74 kilograms Which player 1

Football chants* Here are three chants

He's English. He's a football player

In the modelling room You are in the wax work modelling room

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

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Rules of the store

Problems, problems! If you buy something in

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Covent Garden market and Camden market

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Dogs in London Battersea Dogs'

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Contents

The levels

Using the map

How to use the map

Yes / No questions game

LONDON w4

Arriving in London

Luton Airport

London Transport

Tickets and Travelcards

Going by Tube

Z) YELLOW

C) LIGHT BLUE

S) GREEN

Z) BROWN

The London Eye

The Tower of London

Beefeaters

The Crown Jewels

Ghosts

Numbers search

Escape from the Tower

VOCABULARY CHECK LIST

The River Thames

London Football Clubs

Club: Tottenham Hotspur

Mascots

The Fans

Football chants*

Madame Tussauds

In the modelling room

Buckingham Palace

The London Butterfly House

Speaking

Rules of the store

London Markets

Covent Garden

Street Theatre

Camden Market

At the market

VOCABULARY CHECK LIST

London's Theatreland

London musicals

Speaking

Dogs in London

Spot the dog

Eating Out: London Food

Pie* and Mash

Fish and Chips

Chinatown

Brick Lane

Restaurant names

At the restaurant

Everyday Londoners

London's population*

Writing home

Calling for a job

Boat Race Statistics

Wimbledon: The Home of Tennis

Theme Parks Around London

Chessington World of Adventures

Thorpe Park

The Tomb Blaster Puzzle

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City Animals

The London Aquarium

The Sharks

The Indian Ocean

Unusual Fish

n d on zoo

Guy the Gorilla

Belinda, the Bird-eating Spider

Winnie, the Black Bear

Goldie, the Golden Eagle

The Zoo Maze

EastEnders

Make your own EastEnders episode

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