The United Kingdom（Period 3 Reading and Writing）
2.i beg your pardon？3.please, can you speak more slowly?4.what did you mean by...?5.i’m sorry but could you repeat that?6.i didn’t understand...research and activitiesadvertisement-competitionafter class, each pair should try to finish their introduction to the chosen attraction and make it into an advertisement.they can go to the library or surf the internet for some further information or pictures.then each pair should put up their advertisement on the wall.every student will act as a tourist and choose one place that he or she wants to visit most after reading the advertisements.and everyone is asked to put one flag under the advertisement that he or she has chosen.the one that gets the most flags will be the best advertisement and the makers will be supplied with a prize.
reference for teaching
the city of londonnearly all the old city of london was burned down in the fire of 1666.it started on a sunday evening in a bread shop.on tuesday evening, a quarter of a million people had no homes, and the fire was still burning.the old st.paul’s cathedral, there for a thousand years before that, went in the fire.the cathedral you see today was built by sir christopher wren.there is also a monument to the fire, near eastcheap, where there fire started, and you can climb up it and look down on the city.or, if you feel like climbing, you can go up the 627 stairs to the top of st paul’s and look at the new city from there.after the fire of london, some londoners made new homes in new parts of london.others wanted to come back, but found the new houses too expensive.the city started to lose its people and then, when the railways came, it was even easier to work in the city and live outside it.in the second world war, many homes in the city were destroyed by bombs.so now the city has very few shops and homes.the streets are full of thousands of offices, and only the street names make you think of the people who used to live there, and bought their food in fish street and bread street and milk street.some people do live in the new big blocks of flats near the barbican (one of the old roman gates), but often they only sleep there, and go away for weekends.the shops are shut on saturdays, and the restaurants and pubs shut at six o’clock in the evening.if you go into the city at eight o’clock at night, you feel you are in dead city, while a kilometer away; the streets of the west end are full of people.it seems a sad end.
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