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1 How much do you know about London? 3 Watch the video and put these places in the
Choose the correct answers in the following order you see them on the video.
quiz.
a. Tate Modern e. Trafalgar Square
1. What’s London’s most famous department store? b. The City of London f. Westminster
a. Harrods
c. Piccadilly Circus g. St. Paul’s
b. Macey’s
c. Lord Byron d. London Eye h. Tower Bridge
2. What are the traditional guards in front of The
Tower of London called? 4 Watch again and answer the following
a. The Beefeaters questions.
b. The Queen’s Guards 1. How long did Nelson’s column take to build?
c. The Royal Regiment
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3. Which square has a statue commemorating 2. What do people celebrate here in large numbers?
Napoleon’s defeat in 1805?
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a. Leicester Square
3. How can you get a good view of London from a bus?
b. Times Square
c. Trafalgar Square .........................................................................................................................

4. What line runs through Greenwich? 4. How many journeys are made every year on
a. The Meridian Line London’s buses?
b. The Northern Line of the Tube .........................................................................................................................

c. The Trans European Shipping line 5. What’s the real name of the statue in Piccadilly
5. Where does the UK Prime Minister live and work? Circus?
a. 10 Buckingham Palace Road .........................................................................................................................
b. 11 Bishop’s Street 6. Who designed the Tube Map and when?
c. 10 Downing Street .........................................................................................................................
6. Why was Carnaby Street popular in the 1960s? 7. What happens if you don’t buy a ticket on the
a. It was London’s main shopping street. underground?
b. It had the best restaurants. .........................................................................................................................
c. It was full of trendy clothes shops. 8. What happens to the Tower Bridge at least once a
7. What is Madame Tussaud’s? day?
a. A theatre
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b. A famous restaurant
9. What was the Tate Modern before becoming a
c. A wax museum
museum?
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2 Match the words/expressions and their
definitions. 10. Why did they initially close the Millennium
Bridge?
1. deck a. floor of a boat or a bus .........................................................................................................................
2. gather b. a place where electrical 11. What’s the alternative name for the City of
energy is produced London financial district?
3. power station c. famous or representative .........................................................................................................................
4. crowd d. money you have to pay 12. What happens to the City of London at weekends?
for doing something .........................................................................................................................
wrong/illegal 13. What is the basis for the design of the London Eye?
5. fine e. a large number of .........................................................................................................................
people meeting together 14. How old is Big Ben?
6. iconic f. meet together
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15. What are the names of the Parliaments at
Westminster?
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London

After watching 7 Read www.italiansinlondon.co.uk/

italiansinlondon/practicalinfo.htm and
5 Read the lyrics to Michael Bublé’s Foggy
write a ten point summary of things you
Day in London Town at www.metrolyrics.
should or shouldn’t do when going to
com/a-foggy-day-in-london-town-lyrics-
London.
michael-buble.html and translate them into
Italian. Then listen to an extract of the same
song on the same page.

6 Listen to and watch the video of the song

London Town by Light of The World and
write a list of all the famous places you see
in the video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=
h3rFMUn7olc).

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