Give derivatives of the following words: history, distribute, architecture, provide, compare, locate, centre. 4 LONDON Exercise 3. <...> Find information on any country and share it with your group-mates. <...> The best part of it is taken up by the West End, which includes Oxford Street, Soho and Covent Garden, as well as the elite areas of Mayfair and St James’s. <...> On its south side are the royal and political powerhouses of Whitehall and Westminster, to the east Bloomsbury and the British Museum. <...> As Samuel Johnson, compiler of the fi rst English dictionary, said, “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford”. <...> A good starting point is Trafalgar Square, the strategic heart of London and an impressive public open space. <...> The square, laid out in the 1830s and 1840s by Sir Charles Barry, was dedicated to the memory of Admiral Lord Nelson and his decisive victory over Napoleon’s fl eet off Cape Trafalgar in 1805. <...> Every Christmas a 70ft (20-metre) Norwegian spruce is erected in the square, a gift from the city of Oslo in recognition of the protection given by Britain to members of the Norwegian royal family in World War II. 6 LONDON Trafalgar Square acts as a transportation hub, traversed by several bus and tube lines. <...> Along the north fl ank of Trafalgar Square is the National Gallery (www.nationalgallery.org.uk). <...> Around the corner, established in 1856, is the superb National Portrait Gallery (www.npg.org.uk). <...> To the right of the National Gallery is St Martin-in-theFields church, the oldest surviving structure on Trafalgar Square, built along simple but elegant lines by James Gibbs in 1722–1726. <...> St Martin’s is still the parish church for Buckingham Palace, with royal boxes at the east end. <...> Why does the author call Whitehall and Westminster political powerhouses? 4. <...> Why did Samuel Johnson say that “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”? 5. <...> Speak on: a) Nelson’s column, b) the National Gallery, c) the National Portrait Gallery. <...> Find information on Nelson’s biography and share it with your group-mates <...>
London_Учебное_пособие_для_обучающихся_в_бакалавриате_по_направлению_подготовки_«Педагогическое_образование».pdf
УДК 42
ББК 81.432.1-923.3:26.890(4Вел)
К619
Рецензенты:
А. Р. Белоусова, кандидат
филологических наук, профессор
Е. Л. Фрейдина, доктор
филологических наук, профессор
К619
Колыхалова О. А., Махмурян К. С. London: Учеб.
пособие для обучающихся в бакалавриате по направлению
подготовки «Педа-гогическое образование». – М.: Прометей,
2013. – 86 с.
Учебное пособие London для обучающихся в бакалавриате
по направлению подготовки «Педагогическое образование» ставит
своей целью развитие у студентов навыков устной речи и предполагает
усвоение большого объема лексики по теме London.
ISBN 978-5-7042-2405-1
© О. А. Колыхалова, К. С. Махмурян, 2013
© Издательство «Прометей», 2013
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Оглавление
Text 1. England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Text 2. Central London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Text 3. Covent Garden and Theatreland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Text 4. Books and Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Text 5. Gentlemen’s Clubs and Royal London . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Text 6. Westminster’s Grandeur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Text 7. The Houses of Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Text 8. Westminster Cathedral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Text 9. Shopping and Waxworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Text 10. Piccadilly Circus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Text 11. Bloomsbury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Text 12. Legal London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Text 13. North London Attractions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Text 14. The City and Southwark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Text 15. Britain’s Financial Heartland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Text 16. The Tower of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Text 17. Murder in the Bloody Tower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Text 18. Bankside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Text 19. The South Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Text 20. The East End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Text 21. West London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Text 22. Belgravia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Text 23. The Victoria and Albert Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Text 24. The Natural History Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Text 25. The Science Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Text 26. The Albert Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Text 27. Palaces and gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Text 28. Notting Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Text 29. Day Trips Along the Thames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Text 30. Tropical House in Kew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Text 31. King Henry’s Tudor Palace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Text 32. The Residence of Sovereigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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