A day trip to London: part I

TEST TOUR AROUND LONDON

LONDON: a city with a difference

1. What is meant by cosmopolitan metropolis?
2. What is the meaning of the word sprawling in the expression ‘a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis’?
3. Find a word meaning ‘to walk in a slow relaxed way’?
4. What is a high street?
5. Find a synonym to the words ‘magnificence, grandeur’.
6. Find a synonym to the word ‘to impose’.
7. From the list of synonyms choose the one(s) that is/are closest in the meaning to the word dramatic as used in the text: striking, vivid, effective, breathtaking, powerful, exciting, sensational, melodramatic, sudden, startling.
8. What is meant by remnants of the past? What is meant by a countrified past of London’s suburbs?
9. Find a phrase meaning to disappear.
10. Read out the following expression to wind one’s way
11. Find a synonymous expression to the phrase ‘a city with a character and atmosphere of its own’
12. What is the English for непревзойденное разнообразие of museums and galleries?

Statements to agree or disagree on: → London has not changed much since the 18^th century.

→ London has kept its heart.

→ London is not a sprawling cosmopolitan city, is it?

→ London is a city with a difference.

A DAY TRIP TO LONDON: Part I

1. What kind of a thing does London warn us about?

a) to be well worth + …………………, b) to start to go somewhere= ……………..

2. What are the possible ways to discover London

a) open-top bus rides, b) to cover …… attractions, c) to get one’s bearings,

d) to make one’s way ……., e) to get off = ……….

*Piccadilly Circus n

Ø What is meant by the word “circus” in Piccadilly Circus?

Ø a) within a few yards … sth; b) very expensive, beautiful and comfortable night-clubs;

Why is Piccadilly Circus called the center of London?

Ø a) over-enthusiastic someone who are having fun, singing, dancing, etc. in a noisy way;

What is there in the middle of Piccadilly Circus?

Ø a) to be crowed with=………………….; b) If a group of people or things is a motley one, are they all different or of the same kind?; c) to be made up of =…………………………

Why are there so many people in the Circus in the evening?

* Trafalgar Square

What makes Trafalgar Square so praised worldwide among tourists?

a) What’s the opposite of “give a glimpse of sth”? …………………………………………………

b) What is a “rag night”?

c) to do sth to show that you remember and respect someone important or an important event in the past

d) to drawn … the crowds; to flock … all seasons

e) What is the meaning of the word score in “scores of carol singers”?

We don’t have to search … history in London, since there is history at virtually every turn. The obvious landmarks are the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.

1. ravens with their подрезанными крыльями

2. являться домом (пристанищем) королевских регалий / драгоценностей из королевской казны

3. What is a walk of life?

4. to be started … William the Conqueror

5. the grave of the Unknown …

6. the spirit of a dead person that some people think they can see in a place

7. sad, pathetic

8. являться открытой исторической книгой …

9. to conjure up images of sth=………………………..

10. a grave, especially a large one above ground

11. What is the meaning of the word elaborately in the expression to be elaborately commemorated?

12. a place where coins are officially made

13. to attack, to occupy

14. Who are Beefeaters?

15. to be worth/worthy/worthily remembered

16. to be похороненным in magnificent tombs

Which expressions can we use to describe the Tower of London or Westminster Abbey?

→Why is the Tower of London called an open history book?

What legend is associated with the Tower of London?

→What people are commemorated in Westminster Abbey?

What is Westminster Abbey famed for?