Презентация по английскому языку Travelling around London

Travelling around London ShapovalovaE. P.
The planPreface – The united Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland London mapLondon transportDouble-decker buses The TubeSights of London TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 2 THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELANDThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is situated (расположены) on the British Isles. The British Isles consists of (состоят из) two large islands: Great Britain and Ireland, and about five thousand small islands. The United Kingdom is made up of four countries: England (London), Wales (Cardiff), Scotland ( Edinburg) and Northern Ireland (Belfast). TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 3 4TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON The easiest way to get around London is by public transport . . . 5TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON London transportTRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 6London is very big, so you can’t walk everywhere.People travel by carbike


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Double-decker buses A double-decker bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks. Double-decker buses are used for mass transport in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and many former European possessions, the most iconic example being the red London bus.Double-deckers are primarily for commuter transport but open-top models are used as sight-seeing buses for tourists. TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 8 Famous London red buses are called double-deckers. In London some older buses have no doors and people can hop on and hop off, but it is not very safe. TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 9 TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 10 TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 11The bus:it’s historyToday TomorrowYesterday
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TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 12The London underground The underground is called “the Tube”It has got 12 different lines and more than 275 stations.Every hour, 150,000 people go on the tube. TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 13Many people travel on the London underground. Parts of the London underground are very old. It was the first underground system in the world. TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 14The Tube Map Sights of London TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 15The Queen lives here when she is in London. The palace has got 600 rooms but the Queen only lives in 12 of them. Buckingham Palace “ The Changing of the Guard”


TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 16The British Parliament and Big Ben
TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 17The London Eye If you want to see London, the best place to go is the Eye. The Eye is a big wheel on the River Thames. The Eye is very tall – 133 metres. At the top of the Eye you get a great view of London.

TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 18The Tower of London… …is London’s oldest castle. It’s nine hundred years old. The Tower of London was a palace, but it was also a prison. Beefeaters don’t eat beef! They protect the Tower. The name “Beefeater” comes from when the Queen gave them meat, not money, as their pay.


TRAVELLING AROUND LONDON 19Trafalgar Square The name of the square comes from a famous battle in 1805. The man at the top of the column was a captain in the battle. His name was Horatio Nelson. The column is 52 metres tall. Nelson’s Column


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