We will make a circle. Dancing merrily. What a happy sound! Let us sing together. As we dance around

What a happy sound! Let us sing together, As we dance around.

H. O. PAT"HA,

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come to London". I hope you were friendly and helpful while you were working on this project. And 1 hope the results will be excellent. You should be very attentive today and at the end of the lesson you will have to fill in the blanks in the "London. Sightseeing" quiz.

A group of Russian tourists (R T) is in London for the first time. They want to see the most famous sights of London. This gentleman is a group leader (GL). And that one is a correspondent (C). He always asks many questions. And these gentlemen are guides (G) from the London Tourist Information Office. This gentleman is a director (D) of the office. And I am a Russian tourist too. And now you should present your project. I think we'll start with a visit to the London Tourist Information Office. Let's begin.

GL: Good morning!

D: Good morning! Can I help you?

GL: I am the leader of a group of RusSian tourists. We are in London for the first time and we'd like to see famous London sights. What could you suggest?

D: can suggest a double-decker bus tour about London and a boat tour along the Thames from Tower Bridge to the Houses of Parliament. Which of these tours would you prefer?

GL: I think we'll go on both tours. And we'd like to start with the boat trip along the Thames.

D: That's OK. Here you can see some leaflets about the most famous London

GL: Thanks a lot.

G : Dear guests! You are welcome on board. As you know, London stands on the river Thames. London, the capital of Great Britain, is a very old city. It is two thousand years old. Many years ago London was a small town on the Thames. Now London is a big port and a beautiful city with large squares and parks. About seven million peo live here. London is one of the biggest cities in _ the world. The Thames is not a long river. It is three hundred and thirty kilometres. long and it flows into the sea.

The English people call it "The Father of inndon". London began on the Thames. When we go on a boat up the Thames we pass under Tower Bridge, London Bridge and others.

G : And now we start our tour from Tower Bridge. Tower Bridge is the only Thames bridge which can be raised. The road over the bridge is built on two central sections, they open two or three times a week to let ships through. Up the bridge there are walkways with good views of London.

On the right bank of the. Thames you can see the Tower of London. The Tower of London is a very old building. It is nine hundred years old. In the early days of the history of England the English kings lived here. Then it was a prison where many people died. Black ravens had much food near the walls of the Tower in those years. Black ravens live outside the Tower now. The English people like them very much. A- man looks after the ravens and gives them food in the morning and in the evening. The Tower of London is a muse: um now. The walls of the Tower are five metres thick. In the museum you can see many old guns. At ten o'clock every evening the guards lock the big doors of the Tower for the night.

Gr• Now we are coming to London Bridge. it is two thousand years old. The first bridge was wooden. Then people built a bridge of stone and called it London Bridge. There were houses and shops on it and people paid money when they crossed thebridge. In 1831 a new bridge rose in the place of the old one. But -the city grew very quickly and in 1960 the people of London wanted to build a large new bridge at that place. A very rich American bought the old London Bridge. The American brought the parts of the bridge on a ship to Arizona in the USA. In 1973 new London Bridge was opened on the site Of the old bridge over the Thames.

 C: Excuse me. I've got a question. Why did that rich American buy the old London Bridge?         

Gr• He wanted to show it to people for

money.

C: Thanks a lot.

G • Here we can get off the boat to visit St. ûll's Cathedral. St. Paul's Cathedral is the greatest work of England's greatest architect Sir Christopher Wren. The Cathedral was begun in 1675 and was finished only in 1710. The Cathedral is second in size only to St. Peter's in Rome. Christopher Wren was buried there.

      G • And now we are                   our way up

the Thames to the Houses of Parliament. The Houses of Parliament are the seat of the British government. There is the Clock Tower and the clock in the Houses of Par• liament. The. clock has four faces and a very big loud bell. The bell weighs 13 tons. The Clock Tower is 318 feet high. The clock's face is 23 feet wide. The minute hand is 14 feet long. The hour hand is 9 feet long. The man in charge of building was Sir Benjamin Hall. This man was very tall and the workers and his friends called him Big Ben. So they called the bell Big Ben too.

 Dear guests! Our boat tour is over. I hope you liked it. And now we can take a double-decker bus to make our second tour.

 GF We start our bus tour from Covent Garden. It was a big fruit and vegetable market. It is now a tourist shopping centre with cafés and restaurants