6. Answer the questions:

1. What is the London’s largest and most fashionable park?

2. What street has been the home of the British Prime Minister since 1735?

3. What is one of London’s greatest museums?

4. Where can you see the famous waxworks?

5. Where is the Royal Observatory situated?

St. Paul’s Cathedral

7. Complete the text with the given words. Write down these words into your vocabularies and learn them:

Monument England

Memorials lunchtime

Church architect

Tomb monarch

Dome symbol

Horse bell

1. St. Paul’s is the most famous ___________ in London.

2. St. Paul’s serves as the center of the church of ________.

3. The great English _______ Sir Christopher Wren built this church between 1675 and 1710.

4. His epitaph translated from Latin reads: ‘If you seek his ________, look around you’

5. The church’s huge ______ towers 111 meters above the ground.

6. Its dome has become a _______ of London throughout the world.

7. Big Paul is the heaviest ______ in the country.

8. Big Paul rings every weekday at 1 p.m. to let people know that it is _________.

9. Another bell, Big Tom, tolls when a ________ or important churchmen die.

10. Here you can see many _______ to famous people. Lord nelson is buried here.

11. There is a huge monument to the Duke of Wellington on his favorite _______ Copenhagen.

12. Also there is the _______ of Lord Nelson beneath a black marble sarcophagus.

The Tower of London

8. Complete the text with the given words. Write down these words into your vocabularies and learn them:

Crown fortress

Coronation zoo

Landmark gates

Tradition ravens

Jewels uniform

Ceremony humanist

1. The Tower of London is London’s oldest _________. It was begun by William the Conqueror in 1078.

2. The Tower of London served as a ________, a palace, a zoo, a royal mint and a prison.

3. English statesman and _______ scholar Sir Thomas More was imprisoned in Tower in 1534.

4. The _________ Jewels are kept in the Jewell House at the Tower.

5. Saint Edward’s Crown is used for the ________ ceremony.

6. The Imperial State Crown has 300 _________, and the biggest diamond in the world the ‘Star of Africa’.

7. The Beefeaters guard the Tower. They wear a Tudor-style _______________ of blue or red.

8. Every night at 9.53 p.m. the Chief Warder of Beefeaters lights a candle lantern and locks the ____________.

9. Queen’s Elizabeth’s keys _______ dates back 700 years.

10. For centuries a Royal ________ was kept in the grounds.

11. A group of ________ live at the Tower.

12. The _______ goes that if they disappear the building will collapse.

Westminster Abbey