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Exercises

1. Practice reading the following: [o] clock, conqueror, office, god, shop, historical, column, modern, bronze; [o:] course, importance, form, store, lord, restaurant, bored, wall; [r] borough, Romans, remain, round, great, royal, crown, red, ruby, narrow, remember; [w] west, within, wall, which, Westminster, well, world, woman, William; [ŋ] including, king, living, building, starting, along, changing, interesting, banking.

2. Match the appropriate preposition from the list given below:

1. London is a collection … once separated towns and villages which … the course of time have grown together. 2. That it was a town … some importance is shown … the remains of the wall … it. 3. The hours are struck … the largest bell, well-known as "Big Ben". 4. … the other side of the Houses of Parliament is Westminster Abbey, beautiful … its architecture. 5. Trafalgar Square is a good starting point … any tour … London. 6. The monument … the centre of the square is surmounted … the statue of Nelson. 7. Every day a new guard … thirty guardsmen marches … the palace and takes place … the "old guard". 8. The Tower of London … its Beefeaters and Crown Jewels is a very interesting place. 9. The queen wears the Imperial State Crown … state occasions. 10. The office people come … the City every day … Monday … Friday. 11. Five important streets meet … Piccadilly Circus. 12. People come here … the shops … the day time, and … night they come …a night out. 13. They can get food … twenty different countries … West End restaurants. 14. It may be unattractive … appearance but very important … the country's commerce. 15. London is packed … interest and it's all … colour. (in, from, for, by, at, with, on, round, of)

3. Find synonyms for the following words in the text: male/female monarch, a number of, to be sure, trip, in the middle, daily, to defend, for instance, dull/gloomy, to be of certain significance, to return, before, high contemporary construction, inn.

Find antonyms for the following words in the text: except, alone, to destroy, flood, alike, dead, closing, wide, to forget, hatred, local people, to lose, boring, buyer, future.

4. Complete the following sentences:

1. London suffered two …g c…: a terrible Plague and the …t Fire. 2. In London you f… Bee… and …ly Kings and Queens. 3. Many great …men such as D…, …n, Dar… are buried there. 4. Tourists … see the every… ceremony …ed "the Chang… of the Guard. 5. City offices a… in tall modern …ings, or in old build… in narrow …ts. 6. Five …tant streets meet at …ly C…s in …'s 'West End". 7. …ners, and visitors, can go to a th…e in the … End, or to a concert, to an op… or a …t. 8. Every …day morning it becomes … of the …ts of …n. 9. The British …ng or …n has a palace there - …ham palace. 10. The Tower of …n, built by William the …or to protect the city, is an in-… place. 11. L… is a city, but to L… "the City" is a place in L… . 12. Clock … of the Houses of …ment is …ed to be one of the finest time- … in the w… . 13. Modern b…s, modern sh… and st…, hotels and cinemas look …like in …'s …s.

5. Find the words to satisfy the following definitions: a town with a corporation; an assemblage of dwellings in the country; to put in a grave; anything that commemorates; certain British regiments, soldiers protecting anything; the official residence of a king; a monarch's head-dress, a wreath for the head; a solid carved or cast image of a person; an eating house; that cannot be done, not feasible; state of destructive burning, conflagration.