Lesson 61. New impressions

Цілі: вдосконалювати лексичні навички і навички вимови; вдосконалювати навички читання, аудіювання й усного мовлення; розвивати логічне мислення і пізнавальний інтерес до вивчення англійської мови; виховувати зацікавленість у розширенні своїх знань і повагу до культури інших народів.

Procedure

1.Warm-up

Write all the words you remember which are connected with:

• going to the theatre

• going to the cinema

• going sightseeing

2. Listening

Listen to the text and say what new things have you known about the British Museum.

Use the following words as a plan:

• the size of the building

• beautiful collections

• Greece

• a Manuscript Room

• library

• the Reading Room

• famous readers

There are a lot of interesting places in the capital of Great Britain. One of them is the British Museum which is in Great Russel Street. It is a large, light-grey building. There are a lot of beautiful collections in the British Museum: drawings, ceramics, paintings, sculptures and coins. Many things came to the museum from the Greece. In this museum you can see a Manuscript Room where there are the most important English documents.

The museum is famous for its library. It is one of the richest libraries in the world. It has more than 6 million books. You can go to the Reading Room in the British Museum, it is circular in shape. Some greatest people such as Dickens, Thackeray, Bernard Show, Karl Marx and others sat in the Reading Room. If you visit the British Museum you’ll be impressed.

3. Speaking

Do ex. 1, p. 167.

4. Reading and speaking

Do ex. 2, p. 167.

They

have haven’t

already

visited

St Paul’s Cathedral Downing Street the Houses of Parliament Madame Tussaud’s the Tower of London the Royal Observatory in Greenwich

yet.

5. Writing and speaking

Use the following information and the facts from the previous lessons and do ex. 3, p. 167.

Once a royal palace the Houses of Parliament are now the seat of the Government and the heart of the Commonwealth. In 1834 the Houses of Parliament were destroyed by fire. The new building was built between 1840 and 1852 and contains over 500 apartments as well as the Central Hall, Clock Tower (320 feet) known as “Big Ben”, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. The Houses of Parliament stretch for nearly 1000 feet along the north bank of the Thames.

Built in the first half of the 19th century, the British museum is one of the largest museums in the world. Its famous exhibits include the works of man from prehistoric times to the present day.

Madame Tussaud was a wax modeller who made death masks of victims of the French Revolution. The museum was founded in Paris in 1770. It came to England in 1802 and settled in London in 1835. Nowadays it is one of the oldest, largest and best Wax Exhibitions in the world.

Trafalgar Square was designed between 1829 and 1840 in honour of Nelson’s victory at the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.