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e-lesson Week starting: 28th April 2008

1. London
The subject of this weeks lesson is the capital of England, one of the biggest cities in
Europe, and arguably the most cosmopolitan place in the world: London.
Level
Pre-intermediate and above (equivalent to CEF level A2-B1 and above)
How to use the lesson
1. Brainstorm on the subject of London. If any of your students have ever been there,
ask them to describe their experiences. You could perhaps also touch on some of the
topics mentioned on Worksheet A.
2. Divide students into pairs and hand out Worksheet A. Give them at least five
minutes to put the mixed up pieces of information back together again. Note that in
purely grammatical terms there is more than one option in a couple of places, but
there is only one way of maintaining the sense of the text.
4. When the time is up, check answers in open class.
5. Ask the students to turn over their copies of Worksheet A or temporarily hand them
back to you. Hand out Worksheet B, and keeping the students in their pairs, give them
plenty of time to find and correct the mistakes. Each piece of information contains
three mistakes. Point out that the mistakes are all grammatical or lexical, and that
most corrections only require the students to change a word. No correction requires
them to write more than one additional word.
6. Check answers in open class.
7. If you wish, finish by handing out copies of Worksheet C, which contains corrected
versions of all the pieces of information.

2. Related Websites
Send your students to these websites, or just take a look yourself.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/londonguide/
A comprehensive tourist guide to London on the website of the BBC World Service.
Intermediate level and above.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6750000/newsid_6751600/6751627.stm
A BBC Newsround article (2007) on the controversial logo for the London 2012
Olympics. One of the links on the right-hand side of the page is to a forum containing
the opinions of numerous young people on the decision to award the games to
London. Challenging for pre-intermediate level.
http://www.visitlondon.com/
The Visit London website. Some parts are accessible to pre-intermediate level, but
mostly intermediate and above.

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Answers (Exercises 1 and 2; corrections for Exercise 2 in bold)

1. The city of London has existed for almost 2,000 years. The Romans built the small
town of Londinium in about AD 47, shortly they after invaded Britain.

2. The British parliament building is in the centre of London, by the river Thames.
The famous Big Ben clock tower is part of the building.

3. With an area of more than 1,500 square kilometres and about eight million people,
London is one of the biggest cities in Europe.

4. Londons underground train system is the oldest in the world, and probably has the
most famous map. There are eleven different lines, and 268 stations.

5. In 2012, London is going to host the Olympic Games for the third time. The other
times were in 1908 and 1948. No other city has hosted the event more than twice.

6. London is perhaps the most cosmopolitan city in the world. Almost 2.3 million of
the citys people were born abroad, and Londoners speak a total of more than 300
different languages.

7. London has five international airports. The biggest, Heathrow, which is about
25km west of the city centre, now has five terminals and is one of the busiest airports
in the world.

8. London is a good place if you like pubs, as there are about 3,800 of them.
However, many of them close at 11pm, so it isnt always easy to find a public place to
socialise after that time.

9. There are more than a hundred parks in London, including two very big ones,
Hyde Park and Regents Park, in the middle of the city.

10. The West End of London has a huge number of shops. It contains Europes
busiest shopping street, Oxford Street, and also one of the worlds most famous
department stores, Harrods.

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