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2. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases to your partner then use them to speak about Westminster Abbey:

1. to owe

4. to set a precedent

7. half-sister

2. succession

5. pageant

8. vaulted roof

3. to be consecrated

6. a slab

9. cloister

3. Make use of the words and word-combinations given above to write down sentences of your own.

4. Translate the following words and word-combinations into Ukrainian. Then transcribe them to avoid possible mispronunciation and miscommunication in future:

succession; be consecrated; set a precedent; seize; present a pageant of noble, military, political and artistic history; be remembered with a marble slab; vault; be potrayed in a white marble effigy; cloister.

5. Translate into English:

красоти Вестмінстерського абатства; сісти на престол; освячувати церкву; коронація Вільгельма Завойовника послужила прецендентом, який триває досі; поховати під одним склепінням; північний неф; імпозантний склепистий дах; яскрава картина дворянської, воєнної, політичної історії та мистецтва Англії.

6. Translate the sentences into English:

  1. Вестмінстерське Абатство було збудовано Едуардом Сповідником у 1040 році.

  2. Освячення церкви відбулося у 1065 році.

  3. Вестмінстерське Абатство – місце коронації англійських монархів.

  4. У 1220 році Генріх III збудував каплицю Божої Матері та почав перебудову старого Абатства, яка тривала 300 років.

  5. У Вестмінстерському Абатстві знаходяться могили поетів, політичних та церковних діячів.

7. Match the years with the events :

Event

Time

Edward the Confessor came to the throne

in 1400

Westminster Abbey was consecrated

in 1220

They have used the Coronation Chair

in 1308

The ancient Stone of Scone was seized from the Scots

on December 28, 1065

Henry III added a Lady Chapel

in 1296

Chaucer was the first to be buried in Poet's Corner

in 1040

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

PICCADILLY TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE

1. Read the information below about Westminster Abbey and discuss the answers to the questions below with your partner.

Piccadilly Circus was formed in 1819 at the intersection of Piccadilly and the fashionable Regent Street, whose gracious curve was modernised with new facades 60 years ago. Here is the Cafe Royal, a haunt of literary figures and artists earlier this century. The Circus – a meeting point favoured by Londoners – has been the subject of numerous planning schemes and remains in the throes of change. Eros, the winged figure of an archer with his bow, is taking up a new position after restoration. The aluminium sculpture is properly titled the Shaftesbury Memorial, having been wrought by Sir Alfred Gilbert in 1892-3 as a tribute to the Earl of Shaftesbury, a Victorian Philanthropist.

In Trafalgar Square, Nelson stands atop his 145 foot high monument. The legendary admiral, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar 1805, and here poised on a classical column, is guarded by a quartet of lions modelled by Sir Edwin Landseer and cast by Marocchetti in 1867. Four bronze reliefs near the base are cast from French cannon captured at the naval battles they illustrate.

Trafalgar Square, with the National Gallery on the North Side and Whitehall to the South, is frequented as much by pigeons as by people. A Christmas tree is sent as a gift each year from Norway and on New Year's Eve crowds gather around the tree and the lions to herald in the New Year.

  1. When was Piccadilly Circus formed?

  2. What position is Eros taking up after restoration?

  3. What is the height of the monument?

  4. Who were the lions modelled by?

  5. What do four reliefs illustrate?

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