Come and see the sights!

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o  Look at the map.

 It shows the part of London where you find elegant shops, theatres, cinemas, expensive hotels and clubs (The West End) as well as buildings for government (Westminster).

·       Can you find these places?       

 – HP… Houses of Parliament. – PC… Piccadilly Circus. 
– SC… Speaker´s Corner.     – BP… Buckingham Palace. 
– DS… Downing Street.       – HG… Horse Guards Parade.
– WA… Westminster Abbey  – CG… Covent Garden. 
– LS… Leicester Square.      –TS… Trafalgar Square.
– MA… Marble Arch.          – MT… Madame Tussaud´s
– VR… Victoria Railway Station  - RE... Royal Exchange
- SP... Saint Paul´s Cathedral - BE... Bank of England
- TL... Tower of London      -TB... Tower Bridge
- M... The Monument     - SC... St Cathrine´s Dock
 

·       Find the main streets: 

Piccadilly, Baker Street, Regent Street, Oxford Street, 
Charing Cross Road, Park Lane, Petticoat Lane,
Liverpool Street... and the River Thames. 

·       What are the names of the parks on the map?

“When a person is tired of London he / she is tired of life”

The map shows different parts of London: The West End where you find elegant shops, theatres, cinemas, expensive hotels, clubs as well as buildings for Government (Westminster) and The City. The two are not the same! The City is where you can find the “typical English man” wearing a pin-striped suit and carrying umbrella, briefcase, and the Times newspaper, because this is where the banks and insurance companies are. The City is the oldest part of London, but only one of the buildings below is very old. Which one is that?  Many buildings in The City are quite new-about forty years old. Why?

GAME
Guess the names of the buildings or places corresponding to these descriptions.

1-   The buildings include the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The clock tower, housing Big Ben, is 320 feet high. -…

2-  An open place laid out in 1829 to commemorate Admiral Nelson´s victories over Napoleon. -…

3-  A large church founded in 1065. Many British sovereigns have been crowned here. - …

4-  The Prime Minister lives at No 10 and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) at No 11. -…

5-  The London home of the Queen. The Changing of the Guard ceremony takes place outside this building every day at 11.30 a.m. (Earlier on Sundays). -…

6-  You can see the Queen´s Life Guard on horseback in front of this building. - …

7-  The national meeting place with Eros (the God of Love). - …

8-  The Sunday platform for free speech. - …

9-  It was erected in Pudding Lane to commemorate the Great Fire of London in 1666 (it was here the fire broke out). - …

10-  It is a 900 year old fortress in which you find the Crown Jewels. Everything is guarded by the Beefeaters. - …

11-  It was built about 100 years ago, it has become the symbol of London. Its central parts can open to let ships through. - …

12- It was built by Sir Christopher Wren. Its beautiful dome contains the Whispering Gallery. - … 

ON THE RIVER

The river THAMES

The river Thames is where and why London came to be. By creating London, it changed the face and the map of the world. The Thames is London´s river, and it is pure history. The Celts, the Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Vikings all sailed up it. It has been a witness of England history: the building of Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London, the traders and pirates, the Great Fire of London, the riots in Trafalgar Square, the construction of railways, the digging of the underground, the  public executions, the suffragettes, the installation of electric street lamps, the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the crowds running for air raid shelters as the Thames served as a flight path for German bombers blitzing London during the second World War, the building of the high office blocks, the immigration from the old colonies, the invasion by tourists and language students…

The stretch between London Bridge and Tower Bridge was once a forest of masts. Now it is deserted. And the dock arena below Tower Bridge, that used to be the treasure chamber of the Empire, has gone from teeming life to tumble-down warehouses, and it is now a brand new area of flats, offices and parks, The New Docklands. Every time you look at the river Thames you have a look at England´s history and you smell the atmosphere of the old river.