Reading (8-9) Buckingham Palace
Посилання: текст Buckingham Palace
(Headway Elementary, Student's book, Oxford University Press, 1993 p.38 )
Read the text and do the tasks after it
Buckingham Palace
There are two addresses in London that the whole world knows. One is 10 Downing Street, where the Prime Minister lives. The other is Buckingham Palace. This famous palace, first built in 1703, is in the centre of London.
It is two places, not one. It is a family house, where children play and grow up. It is also the place, where presidents, kings and politicians go to meet the Queen.
Buckingham Palace is like a small town, with the police station, two post offices, a hospital, a bar, two sports clubs, a disco, a cinema, and a swimming pool. There are 600 rooms and 3 miles of red carpet. Two men work full-time to look after 300 clocks. About 700 people work in the Palace.
When the Queen gets up in the morning, seven people look after her. One starts her bath, one prepares her clothes, and one feeds her Royal dogs. She has eight or nine dogs, and they sleep in their bedroom near the Queen’s bedroom. Two people bring her breakfast. She has coffee from Harrods, toast, and eggs. Every day for fifteen minutes, a piper plays Scottish music outside her room and the Queen reads the Times.
Every Tuesday morning, she meets the Prime Minister. They talk about world news.
When the Queen invites a lot of people for dinner, it takes three days to prepare the table and three days to do the washing up.
During the first and second courses, the Queen speaks to the person on her left, and then, she speaks to the person on her right to the end for the rest of the meal. When the Queen finishes her food, everybody finishes, and it is time for the second course.
Task 1. Write true or false
Buckingham Palace is four hundred years old.
Task 1. Write true or false
There are six hundred rooms and three miles of red carpet.
Task 1. Write true or false
About seven hundred people work in Palace
Task 1. Write true or false
When the Queen invites a lot of people for dinner, it takes a week to prepare the table and three days to do the washing up.
Task 1. Write true or false
Two men work full-time to look after three hundred clocks.
Task 1. Write true or false
Every day for a quarter of an hour, a piper plays Scottish music outside her room and the Queen reads the Times.
Task 1. Write true or false
During the first and second courses, the Queen speaks to the person on her right, and then, she speaks to the person on her left to the end for the rest of the meal.
Task 2. Finish the sentences….
She has...
Task 2. Finish the sentences….
Every Tuesday morning, the Queen….
Task 2. Finish the sentences….
Buckingham Palace is like a small town...
Task 2. Finish the sentences.
This famous palace, first built in 1703...
Task 3. Match the word with the definition:
a palace
Task 3. Match the word with the definition:
post office
Task 3. Match the word with the definition:
to meet
Task 3. Match the word with the definition:
to build
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