Interview to a London traveller

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A powerpoint made by students of 1st ESO last week

OK, batxillerat students. This is a powerpoint made by two students in 1st ESO -yes, 1st ESO, it is not a mistake- last week. They made an exposition about London to the rest of the class. There are a few mistakes, but it is a good, very good start for you.


Powerpoint and presentation made by Luke B and David A (1st ESO)

History of London

Tags: history London 

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OK students. Now you will see a new section. You will find London divided in sections, with a plan and the names of sites, museums and monuments that you can visit in these areas. Ask Javier which areas you are going to walk around.

In pairs, and using your blog, you must upload a document (information- timetable and price, history, anecdotes, description, photos, etc) on the site your teacher tells you. Try to make it simple and interesting (don't cut and paste), bring the text to class to be corrected and upload it in your blog. Remember: you will have an exam on reading the blog before the London Calling trip!!!!

Instructions:

1st.- the text must be short, but not too short (16 lines) with important information and photo/s
2nd.- you will have a mark on this task. You must give it to your teacher to correct
3rd.- Sign it with your first name + first letter of your surname+class group For example, Alejandra M. 1st bat C
4th .- Don't use links. Embed your texts directly in your blog (to make it easy for everybody)


Enjoy

Section 2. The Thames. part 1

From Westminster Bridge to Blackfriars Bridge

North side of the river:

• Westminster
• Banqueting house
• Charing Cross station -in a postmodern complex of shops and offices
  
• Embankment Gardens -there are many free music concerts (in the summer)
• Cleopatra's Needle - an Egyptian obelisc donated to England in 1819
  
• Shell Mex House - the oil company offices
• Savoy Hotel
• Somerset House -from 1786 with 3 art galleries
• Temple and Inns of Court - the lawyer buildings for 500 years.
  
• Saint Paul's Cathedral

South side of the river:

• County Hall - the London aquarium is inside
• British Airways London Eye - Impressive views of the city. You'll like it.
• The South Bank - A complex that includes The Royal Albert Hall, The National Theatre and the Hayward Gallery
• Gabriel's Warf - arts and crafts market
• Oxo Tower
  
• Doggett's Coat and Badge - A pub with the name of a famous regatta
• The Tate Modern
  

Section 2. The Thames. part 2

North side of the river:

• Fishmongers' Hall - 1834 (la llotja)
  
• The Monument -remember the Great Fire?
• Billingsgate - old fish market
• The Customs - in a 1825 building
• Tower of London
• Tower Bridge - London Bridge
• Saint Katharine's Dock - nowadays a sporting yatch dock

South side of the river:

• Globe Theatre
• Southwark Cathedral - Some parts of the building date back to the 12th century. It has several monuments dedicated to Shakespeare
• Saint Olave's House - art déco building
• Hay's Galleria - old dock under roof with shops and restaurants
• HMS Belfast - World War II ship, currently a museum
  
• Tower Millenium Pier - impressive new townhall building with government and mayor offices
• Butlers Wharf - old Victorian warehouses, currently appartments
• Design museum
  

Section 2. Whitehall and Westminster

These areas have been the centre of political and religious power in England for a thousand years.

Sites to visit:

• Houses of Parliament
• Big Ben (it is the bell, not the clock!)
  
• Jewel Tower (this and Westminster Hall are the only remains of the old Palace of Westminster)
  
• Westminster Abbey
• Dean's Yard (Dryden and Ben Johnson -the writer, not the athlete- used to walk around it)
  
• Saint Margaret's church (Margaret, not Margarit; we're ogres in my family, not saints)
• Parliament Square
• Cenotaph (monument to the dead of World War I)
• Downing Street (the Prime Minister's residence; you need important contacts to visit it)
• Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum (World War II cabinet rooms)
• Banqueting House (First building to adopt the Paladian architectural style from Italy in London)
• House Guards Parade
• Trafalgar Studios
• Queen Ann's Gate (big elegant houses from 1704. The M15, the British Secret Service, is supposed to have organised its activities in here until recently)
• Guards Museum
• Saint James's Park Station (it holds the London Transport Company and has works of Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore)
• Blewcoat School
• Westminster Cathedral
• Saint John en Smith Square (English baroque masterpiece, today an auditorium)
• Tate Britain
  

Section 2. Picadilly and Saint James's

Picadilly is the main artery of the West End. The name comes from the 17th fashionable pickadillstan (remember the white piece of clothing round their necks??). Saint James's still preserves buildings from the 18th century, when it was full of Royal palaces and the court gathered and shopped in the area. Two shops in Saint James's Street remind us of this time: the hat shop Lock and the wine shop Berry Bros. & Rudd. Fortnum and Mason, in Picadilly, has served quality food for almost 300 years. In the north, Mayfair, is still the most elegant suburb in London.

Sites to visit:

• Picadilly Circus (Eros, the Greek God of Love, has become a symbol of London)
• Saint James's Church (a favourite of Wren's)
• Albany (Lord Byron, Graham Green, two Prime Ministers , William Gladstone and Edward Heath, and the actor Terence Stamp lived in this appartment building)
• Royal Academy of Arts
• Burlington Arcade (it still has caretakers that throw out the people who don't keep the site clean)
• Ritz Hotel
• Spencer House
• Saint James's Palace
• Saint James's Square
• Royal Opera Arcade
• Pall Mall (150-year-old elegant clubs only for men where they fleed from their wives)
• Institute of Contemporary Arts
• Saint James's Park
• The Mall
• Marlborough House
• Queen's Chapel
• Clarence House
• Lancaster House
• Buckingham Palace
• Queen's Gallery
• Royal Mews
• Wellington Arch
• Apsley House
• Shepherd Market
• Green Park
• Faraday Museum (reconstruction of Faraday's, the pioneer of the 19th century in the use of electricity, scientific items and personal objects)