Ex. 5 Answer the questions

1. What is meant by the word 'Circus' in Piccadilly Circus?

2. When we go for a stroll, are we in a hurry?

3. What is meant by the expression to get your bearings?

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

5. What is the difference between worth and worthy?

6. What is a rag night?

7. If a group of people or things is a motley one, are they all different or of the same kind?
What can be motley?

8. What is the meaning of the word score in scores of carol singers?

9. What is a walk of life?

10. What is the meaning of the word poignant? What can be poignant?

Ex. 6 Say in other words.

a) easy to notice or understand;

b) to start to go somewhere;

c) very expensive, beautiful and comfortable;

d) something that is easy to recognise;

e) someone who is having fun, singing, dancing, etc. in a noisy way

f) a place where coins are officially made;

g) to do something to show that you remember and respect someone important or an important event in the past;

h) the spirit of a dead person that some people think they can see in a place;

i) a grave, especially a large one above ground;

 

Ex. 7 Find synonyms in the text.

a) to be made up of; f) sad, pathetic;

b) to go for a walk; g) correct, usual, customary;

c) practically, nearly; h) first-rate, marvellous;

d) to attack, to occupy; i) to be crowded with;

e) view; j) get off.

Ex. 8 Supply prepositions or postpositions where necessary.

— to search_______ history;

— to depart______;

— to be tronged_________ people;

— to be composed_________;

— to be surrounded_________ carol singers;

— to be started _________ William the Conqueror;

— to bring_________ the visitor's mind;

— to draw_________ the crowds;

— to cover________ the obvious attractions;

— within a few hundred yards______ something;

Ex. 9 Without looking back at the text try to supply the missing word that com­pletes these expressions.

— to be_____ in magnificent tombs;

— you could do______ than;

— make your_____ around;

— to catch a_______ of something;

— the grave of the Unknown_______;

— from every_____ of life;

— to be_______ remembered;

Ex. 10 Complete the sentences using the words from the text. To help you the first letter of each word is given.

1. The streets were t________ with Christmas shoppers.

2. The hotel suite looked very I_______ in the brochure.

3. What a beautiful s________ these roses make!

4. London has s________ s of museums - many absolutely free.

5. He conjured up a v_______ of the future.

6. I only caught a g______ of the thief, so I can't really describe him.

7. His friends were a m________ crew.

8. Famous s_________ s like St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, the Houses of

Parliament will always be popular visitor a_________ s and a 'must' on your itinerary.

9. Nearby is Tower Bridge, one of the River Thames' more famous I___________ s.

Ex. 11 Answer the questions.

1. What is the best way to see London?

2. Why is Piccadilly Circus called the centre of London?

3. What is there in the middle of the Circus?

4. Why are the so many people in the Circus in the evening?

5. What makes Trafalgar Square so popular with tourists?

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

7. What legend is associated with the Tower of London?

8. What people are commemorated in Westminster Abbey?