10. In pairs think of the appropriate word combinations to the words given below.

1. to fly		9. private
2. to grant a lease		10. to come
3. memorial		11. veined
4. to offer		12. to grant
5. gilded		13. musty
6. to host		14. Royal
7. to run		15. open
8. attended		16. a graduate of

11. Close the book and try to remember as many facts from the text as you can. Speak by turns with your partner.

12. A/ Work in pairs. Student a interviews b to write an essay on Buckingham Palace. Using the appropriate prompts given below, student b gives answers to a’s questions.

b/ Student B interviews A to write an essay on Whitehall. Using the appropriate prompts given below, student A gives answers to B’s questions.

a graduate of Harvard University	sumptuous apartments
annual memorial services	the First Lord of the Treasury
attended by the sovereign	the Royal Mews
ballroom block	to chain oneself to the railings
cascading water	to come to the throne
ceremonial duties	to fly the royal standards
Cromwell’s commonwealth	to grant a knighthood
open to the public	to grant a lease on the land
prevailed by a musty smell	to host a dinner with smb
private suits	to offer as a gift
royal treasures	to run the household
setting for state processions	veined Carrara marble
stately rooms	wild life
subject to receive awards	working setting

c/ Write an essay on Buckingham Palace/ Whitehall (100 – 130 words).

GRAMMAR FOCUS

13. Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. The group went to Buckingham Palace so that they … (learn) more about a mixture of old and new.

2. It looks as if the Queen … (leave) on ceremonial duties such as the State Opening of Parliament in early winter.

3. It’s high time that we … (see) the Royal Mews with the Queen's horses, their trappings, the breathtaking State Coach.

4. The suggestion is that we … (visit) its sumptuous apartments, containing generations of royal treasures.

5. It is possible that the Queen's Gallery … (house) changing exhibitions taken from the Royal Collections.

Westminster Abbey

1. Read the information below about Westminster Abbey and discuss the answers to the questions below with your partner. Make up the most suitable heading for each part of the text.

1.

The wonders of Westminster Abbey owe much to a succession of kings and queens beginning with Edward the Confessor, a saintly man who came to the throne in 1040. Sadly the church he built on the site was consecrated on December 28, 1065 when he was too weak to attend. He died eight days later. The next year a new king, William the Conqueror was crowned there on Christmas Day setting a precedent which continues. Westminster Abbey has been the setting for every monarch’s coronation and, since 1308 they have used the Coronation Chair designed to hold the ancient Stone of Scone seized from the Scots in 1296. It was stolen by some Scots in 1950 but replaced the following year.

2.

Henry III added a Lady Chapel in 1220 and began rebuilding the old Abbey – a process which lasted some 300 years to create most of the building we know today – though the West Towers were not finished until 1745.

3.

The Abbey presents a pageant of noble, military, political and artistic history. It has the graves of kings and queens, of poets /Chaucer was the first to be buried, in 1400, in Poets’ Corner/, politicians and churchmen. Sir Winston Churchill is remembered with a marble slab placed near the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

4.

Elizabeth I is buried in the same vault as her half-sister, Mary, and is portrayed in a white marble effigy. She lies in the north aisle of the Henry VII chapel, under its spectacular vaulted roof. Among recent additions is the Royal Air Force Chapel with memorial window, while the founder is remembered in the Chapel of Edward the Confessor.

5.

Westminster Abbey, under the jurisdiction of a Dean and Chapter, is subject only to the Sovereign. It has its own choir and choir school and adjoining the cloisters is Westminster School, founded by Queen Elizabeth I.

1. Who came to the throne in 1040?

2. When was the church consecrated?

3. Who was crowned in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day in 1066?

4. In which way was the Coronation Chair designed?

5. When was the Chair stolen?

6. Who added a Lady Chapel in 1220 and began rebuilding the old Abbey?

7. What does the Abbey present?

8. Where is Elizabeth I buried?