Αppendix VII
Lesson 2
Tasks for the lesson
Task 1(8 min)
a. What do you know about the Tower of London? Now look at the
pictures and the map. Where is it? How could you describe it?
b.
c. What would you like to learn about it? Write your questions on the
board.
Task 2 (5 min)
There are three paragraphs in this text. Put them in the right order.
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Later on king Richard I dug a big ditch around it and filled it with water from the
River Thames, and he called that a moat. Maybe some of you have built a sandcastle
and scooped out the sand around it and filled it with water. That’s what they did at the
Tower of London. This made it a very good place for the kings and queens lo live
because their enemies couldn’t get into the fort to attack them.
Paragraph…………….
The Tower of London is quite large, and lots of neat things have happened here. It
was built a long time ago by a Frenchman called William the Conquerer who came
over to England in the year 1066—that’s almost 1,000 years ago! He wanted to build
a castle inside a big fort so that future kings could live here. After he died other kings
built smaller towers and walls around the castle William had built, and all the
buildings together became known as the Tower of London.
Paragraph……………..
Nobody could get into the Tower of London unless they had permission from the
people who were inside. If they wanted to let someone in they would lower a wooden
bridge on chains across the moat, and then the people could just walk across. This
bridge was called a drawbridge. If they didn’t lower the drawbridge the only way a
person could get into the castle would be to swim across the moat. Since that was
usually filled with nasty smelling water filled with garbage and old potato peelings,
people didn’t want to swim across. Besides, with the drawbridge up the door was
closed, so even swimming across wouldn’t really work. The moat is no longer there
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