Презентация ''London. Places of interest''

London

Places of interest

S.V.Nikiforova

The River Thames

• London became an important city because of the River Thames.
• The first London Bridge was built by the Romans and was made of wood.
• The first stone bridge was built 800 years ago.

Tower Bridge

• Tower Bridge is the only Thames bridge which opens.
• The middle of the bridge has two sections that can be raised to let ships through.

Tower Bridge

The Tower of London

• William the Conqueror built the first building of this fortress, the White Tower, in 1078 to protect the city and guard the approach to London by river.
• The Tower grew over 400 years. It is ringed by two protective walls with towers and by a moat.

Buckingham Palace

• The Palace was built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703. The court architect John Nash rebuilt it in the early 1800s. In 1837 Queen Victoria moved in.
• There is a memorial to Queen Victoria in front of the Palace.
• Changing of the Guard is the ceremony which is held on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace at 11:30.

St James’s Park

• King Henry VIII acquired marshy land for a garden and deer park.
• St James’s Park has a large lake with an island in the middle.

Westminster Abbey

• Westminster Abbey is one of the oldest buildings in London. The first Abbey was built nearly a thousand years ago by Edward the Confessor.
• Nearly every king or queen of England has been crowned in the Abbey since 1066 and many English monarchs are buried there.

The Houses of Parliament

• The Houses of Parliament, the home of the British Government, were built in 1840.

Victoria Tower

The Clock Tower

• Big Ben is the huge bell in the Clock Tower

London Zoo

• London Zoo, started in 1828, is one of the oldest and most famous zoos in the world.

London Zoo

London Zoo

The British Museum

• The British Museum displays historic objects from many cultures, including ancient Egypt, Greece and Roman Britain.
• It opened in 1759 and is the oldest public museum in the world.

The British Museum

• The British Museum is famous for its Egyptian mummies.
• You can see mummies of kings and queens and important animals, like cats, dogs and falcons.
• Mummies were often buried with treasure and household goods to use in the afterlife.

Madame Tussaud’s

• Madame Tussaud’s is the world’s most famous wax museum.

Madame Tussaud’s

Madame Tussaud’s

The Natural History Museum

• The Natural History Museum has a huge collection of animals, plants, rocks and fossils.

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum

• The Dinosaur Gallery is full of life-size dinosaur models.

The Natural History Museum

• You can see real fossils of dinosaurs’ bones, teeth and eggs.