Hyde Park

New words and word-combinations to be remembered:

hunting полювання

royal королівський

place of rest місце відпочинку

Hyde Park is London's largest and most fashionable park. It was once a royal hunting forest. Now it is a place of rest with restaurants and bars at each end of the lake.

Answer the following questions:

1. What places of interest in London do you know?

2. What is the best place in London to start the sightseeing with?

3. What is Trafalgar Square famous for?

4. What monuments to famous people of London do you know?

5. What Houses does the British Parliament consist of?

6. What is the residence of the British Queen?

7. How much time did it take Ch. Wren to build St. Paul's Cathe­dral?

8. What can you tell about the Reading Room in the British Museum?

9. Why is Trafalgar Square called so?

10. Where is the residence of the British Prime Minister?

7. Britain's prominent people

New words and word-combinations to be remembered:

prominent видатний

customs звичаї

to use використовувати

outstanding видатний

abilities здібності

Independently самостійно

by and by поступово

to achieve досягати

educated освічений

to include включати

to be buried бути похованим

discovery відкриття

The United Kingdom is a great country with a rich history, traditions and customs. It gave birth to many talented people in different spheres: literature, art, science, music, sports.

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton is a famous mathematician who worked out a basic formula, or rule, which has been used ever since in mathematics. Now we call it the binomial theorem. Being a student at Trinity College he heard lectures in Greek, Latin, mathematics, theology and began to show his outstanding abilities. He mastered many subjects inde­pendently because he was interested in them. By and by his interests began to centre more and more on physics and mathematics. If, in his life-time, Isaac Newton had gone on to achieve nothing else than the binomial theorem, he still would have earned an honoured name in scientific history. And at that time he was only twenty-two years old.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is a well-known English writer. He was born in 1812 at Portsmouth where his father was a clerk at Navy Office. He was the oldest of a large family. His mother was a well-educated person. One day in his room Charles found many books: "Robinson Crusoe", "Tom Jones" and others and thus he got the key to the treasure house of English literature. His family moved to London where he worked at a lawyer's office. He made some reports for newspapers. Soon he entered the "Morning Chronicle" and his work of writing really began. He went all over the country, got news, wrote stories, met people. His novels were "Little Dorrit", "Nicholas Nickleby", "Oliver Twist" and above all "David Copperfield". In 1836 he became famous. He wrote novel after novel. At the same time he was working as a newspaperman, visited America, Italy, Switzerland, Paris. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren is a well-known English architect. He designed many palaces, fine houses, beautiful churches including St. Paul's Cathedral. It took him 35 years to build this cathedral and when it was finished he was an old man. After his death he was buried in it.

Joseph John Thomson

Joseph John Thomson is a discoverer of the electron. He was born in Manchester. First a student and then a lecturer in mathematics at Trinity College he was appointed Professor of Physics when he was only twenty-eight years old. And in the closing year of the 19th century J.J. Thomson, professor of physics at Cambridge, discovered the electron. The discovery of the electron, and the investigations into its nature which followed, led to a revolution in physical science.