Match the sights of London with their descriptions.

The City of London	was built after the Great Fire of London
Buckingham Palace	is for Queen Elizabeth’ home where she often stays at Christmas and Easter
Trafalgar Square	was a fortress, a palace, a prison, a zoo, and now it is a museum
Royal Opera House	is where the Queen lives
St. Paul’s Cathedral	was built to remember the battle of Trafalgar
Oxford Street	is London’s biggest art museum
The National Gallery	is the lake in the middle of Hyde Park
Windsor Castle	is one of the most famous libraries in the world
Westminster Abbey	is Britain’s main banking centre
The Speaker’s Corner	is London’s main shopping centre
The Tower of London	is in Covent Garden
Regent’s Park	is famous for its lake as well as for London Zoo
The Serpentine	is the largest private collection in the world
The Queen’s Gallery	is in Hyde Park where anyone can make a speech
The British Museum	is famous for the Poet’s Corner

7. a) Complete the diagram using information from the text London.

b) Tell about London on the bases of the diagram.

8. a) Unscramble the words below. The first letter is a capital one:

naaFcnlii

rqCnouero

nEhxcega

aeervlS

aoylR

olacireCmm

orsFters

utasgOtnndi

enCootlcil

ceensRdei

sencsiStti

elinSddp

b) Make up a short story using the words from a).

Part 2 «THE SIGHTS OF LONDON»

 

1. Have you ever heard about Madame Tussaud? What is she famous for?

 

2. Read the beginning of the text about Madame Tussaud’s Museum and say why this museum is so popular:

Madame Tussaud's is the most popular wax museum. There are wax models of the famous and infamous, both living and dead people here. There is no other place where you can see the celebrities at once: Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Marilyn Monro, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, the British Royal family, Margaret Thatcher, Jack the Ripper.

 

3. Working in groups or pairs. Read the part of the jumbled text, put the sentences into the right order and find the heading:

 

The Grand Hall

The Camber of Horror

The Spirit of London

a) First you visit an Elizabethan theatre, then an old tavern where the great Shakespeare is working at Hamlet. You'll go through the Plague and the Great Fire; you'll see St Paul's Cathedral being built.

b) The museum is situated not far from the house of the great detective in fiction, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. There is usually a long queue in front of the museum. There are several halls at Madame Tussaud's: the Grand Hall, the Chamber of Horrors and «The Spirit of London». The wax figures are sitting, standing and sometimes even moving and talking. They look realistic and when they look at you, you feel uncomfortable in their company. Computer-controlled figures are very popular with the visitors.

c) The Chamber of Horror is the most terrible place of the whole museum. Visitors are always quiet here. Count Dracula greets you at the entrance to the dark cellar – full of villains and their victims.

d) «The spirit of London» exhibition covers a period of more than 400 years and presents London's history from Elizabethan times to the present day. Sights, sounds and even smells combine to tell you the colourful story of Britain's capital. Visitors sit into a «Time Taxi» and begin their historical journey.

e) The earliest figure from the history is William the Conqueror. Here you can see many politicians: Winston Churchill, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Margaret Thatcher, and Michael Gorbachev. There is also a special place for the Royal family here too.

f) There are more than 70 figures in this hall and many of them are animated: they can talk and move.

g) In the Grand Hall you will find all kinds of celebrities, from Bill Clinton to Michael Jackson. You will meet people who made the influence on our lives and whose memories still live on.

h) Here you can see the reconstruction of one of the streets of London, where Jack the Ripper killed his victims. Here you can also observe Madame Tussaud's original exhibition of the death masks of French nobility of the French Revolution, and the guillotine.

 

VOCABULARY

wax models

famous

infamous

celebrity

to look realistic

computer-controlled figures

animated

terrible

to greet

entrance

exhibition

original

sound

smell

to combine

politician

to move

to observe

nobility

Jack the Ripper

 

4. Agree or disagree with the statements:

a) This museum is famous for its wax models.

b) Celebrities is the synonym for outstanding.

c) The museum is made up of several halls.

d) Wax models can talk in this museum.

e) You can meet models of people with bad reputation.

f) The model of any person can be presented in the exhibition.

g) The most terrible hall of the museum is «the Spirit of London».

h) Jack the Ripper greets you in the Chamber of Horror.

i) You can see Buckingham Palace being built.

a) You can see the exhibition travelling by a «Time Train».

 

5. Match each word with a hall in Madam Tussaud’s museum on the basis of any logical connection:

celebrities history combination of sights and sounds guillotine terrible reconstruction of London streets the biggest British royal family people influenced our life Great Fire

William the Conqueror Jack the Ripper death masks victims Time Taxi paparazzo Count Dracula Madam Tussaud’s figure Shakespeare computer-controlled figures

 

6. Video. Watch the video and answer the questions about the history of museum. Make notes while watching the film:

a) Who was Madame Tussaud?

b) Why did she begin to make wax models?

c) Where was the museum situated in the beginning?

d) Were the wax models popular at that time?

e) Where is the museum now?

f) Is it difficult to make a wax model?