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LONDON

London is a big city. In big cities, there are modern

buildings, modern shops and stores, hotels and cinemas.

But what is different in London? What things can you seeonly in London? In London -the different city- you find

Beefeaters (the soldiers at the Tower of London) and

Bobbies (friendly policemen), Covent Garden and Madame

Tussaud's Museum, the Houses of Parliament with Big Ben

next to them.


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Buckingham Palace

The British king or queen has that palace in

London. Queen Elizabeth lives there now. Tourists

can see the Changing of the Guard. Every day a

new guard of thirty guardsmen marches to the

palace and takes the place of the old guard.


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Buckingham Palace

The British king or queen has that palace in

London. Queen Elizabeth lives there now. Touristscan see the Changing of the Guard. Every day a

new guard of thirty guardsmen marches to the

palace and takes the place of the old guard.


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Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament

They are beside the River Thames. Tourists in

London always want to visit Westminster and seeBig Ben. They want to see the clock and they want

to hear the bells. Big Ben is really a bell.


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The Tower of London

The Tower is old, and it has a long and cruel history. It used to

be a prison. There are several buildings, the White Tower, theBloody Tower. People say there are ghosts in the tower. It is a

very frightening place. You can see Beefeaters there and the

Crown Jewels and many ravens.


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Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge is one of the most famous bridges

across the Thames. It is near the Tower ofLondon.


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on on s c urc esYou can see a number of famous churches from the

river. St Paul's Cathedralhas 627 steps from the floor

of the cathedral to the top. Westminster Abbey is

near the Houses of Parliament. It is old (1042-1065)

and very big (158 metres long). This is a very

interesting website about ST Pauls Cathedral:

http://www.stpauls.co.uk/La-catedral-de-San-Pablo


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Markets

In London there are several street markets. In Portobello Road

you can buy old things. It is a collector's market. Camden

Town market is quite a big market. You can buy many things

there, from leather jackets to awful hats. This are a very

interesting websites: http://www.camden-

market.org/http://www.camdenlock.net/stables/index.html


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Museums

Madame Tussaud's Museum is a famous waxworks museum in

London, opened in 1835 by Marie Tussaud. The museum

contains wax figures of famous and notorious characters. Thereis a Chamber of Horrors.

The British Museum contains one of the world's richest

collection of antiquities. The National Galleryis an art gallery.

There are very famous pictures in it. Another website is

http://www.madametussauds.com/London/BuyTickets/TicketO

ptions/Default.aspx

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London's parks and gardens

Londoners like the parks. Office workers often sit in them and eat their

lunch. Hyde Parkis a very big one with its Speaker's Corner. The nearest

Tube Station is Marble Arch (Central Line).

For over 150 years, Speaker's Corner has been one of London's most unique

and eccentric attractions. On any given Sunday morning, anyone who has anopinion to air and anyone who will listen will gather at the point where

Oxford Street and Hyde Park meet, in the shadows of Marble Arch and carry

on an oral tradition that is becoming somewhat lost to a modern culture of

email and online chat rooms.

Regent's Parkhas the London Zoo. Green Parkand St. James's Parkare verynear Buckingham Palace. Kew Garden is the most famous and the biggest

garden in London. You can find plants from all over the world.

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Interesting places: Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Soho.

Piccadilly Circus is in London's "West End" and there is a very famous statue in the middle. It is

called Eros, the Greek God of love. Piccadilly Circus is a very busy place day and night because

there are many shops and pubs, restaurant and discotheques. You can get food from twenty

different countries in West End restaurants. You can also go to theatres. You can buy cheaper

tickets in Leicester Square near Piccadilly Circus. And there are many cinemas and theatresnear Piccadilly Circus. Soho is also near, and there are many restaurants, pubs, clubs, bars, sex-

shops in that area. Being the center of Londons gay district (centered around Old Compton

Street) and red light district (various adult shops and strip clubs are sprinkled around the

whole area). Theres also a large amount of bars, pubs and clubs, and people are out on the

street at all hours of the night. There all kind of people in Soho and on Soho Square: tourists,

prostitutes, restaurant workers, shoppers, drug dealers, club goers You can also go thereand enjoy life. People are very open-minded and not narrow-minded. Do you think you are

open-minded?


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QUESTIONS

1.- Who is the Queen of Great Britain?

2.- Write the names of several London's parks.

3.- What is Buckingham Palace?

4.- What is Eros? 5.- Where is the Speaker's Corner?

6.- Where do people say there are ghosts?

7.- Write the name of a famous clock in London

near the Houses of Parliament. Which is the British currency?

English typical food


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