English Practice
English Practice
English Practice
Vocabulary:
Professional skills:
Case study:
Vocabulary
CULTURAL HERITAGE
1 Underline the odd word in each group. Explain your choice. Use a dictionary to
help you.
1 parliament I courts of justice I prime minister's residence I city hall I square
2 science museum I big wheel I concert hall I art gallery I wax model museum
3 palace I mansion I theatre I country house I castle
4 pillar I fa~ade I dome I bridge I roof
5 wooden I stone I Baroque I iron I glass
6 Roman I Medieval I Renaissance I the sixties I Post-modern
Reading
THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT LONDON
2 Work in pairs. Read some historical facts about London. Then cover the facts. How
many do you remember?
3 Study the Grammar box. Underline the verbs in the past simple tense in the
historical facts in Exercise 2.
4 Complete the article with the correct past simple form of the verbs in brackets.
Historic London
Hampton Court in Richmond, London The British Museum first 6_ _ _ (open)
1_ _ _ (be/not) originally a royal in 1753 and is the oldest public museum
palace. lt 2_ _ _ (be) Cardinal Wolsey's in the world. The museum covers 4 km
country house but Wolsey then 3 _ __ and has Greek, Roman and Egyptian
(give) it to King Henry VIII in 1528. Later collections. Famous figures like Karl
Hampton Court was 4_ _ _ (rebuild) Marx and Mahatma Gandhi once
7_ _ _ (read) in the Reading Room. In
by the architect, Christopher Wren, so
its architectural style is a mix of Tudor 1845, a visitor 8_ _ _ (break) one of
and English Baroque. Hampton Court is the exhibits, the Portland vase, into 200
famous for the maze in its gardens and pieces. The vase 9_ _ _ (be) over 2,000
the indoor royal tennis court. People say years old but the museum 10_ _ _ (put)
tennis 5_ _ _ (invent) by Henry VIII. it together again.
Vocabulary Speaking
A TWO- HOUR TOUR