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Homework for Tuesday, 12.03.19: read and translate the text:

London and its history

1. London is the capital of the UK.

2. London is also a political, educational, scientific and cultural centre of the country.

3. This city consists of four parts: the East End, the West End, the City and Westminster.

4. The financial and business centre is called the City.

5. The shopping and entertainment centre is the West End.

6. The government centre is Westminster.

7. The East End is the centre where working people live.

8. The population is more than 8 million people.

9. The Romans founded a settlement on the river Thames 2000 years ago.

10. They built a seaport and called it Londinium. In Celtic “londin” means “wild”.

11. In 410 AD the Romans left Britain and the native Britons who had moved to London kept the settlement alive as a trading centre.

12. Then Germanic tribes attacked London. The Saxons began to control this city.

13. The Saxon king Edward the Confessor built a church. This church became Westminster Abbey.

14. In 1066 William the Conqueror was crowned in Westminster Abbey. He built a castle and called it the White Tower. Today the White Tower forms the central part of the Tower of London.

15. London grew rapidly and developed into a world trading centre in the Medieval Ages.

16. The Civil war, the Plague and the Great Fire broke London in the 17 century.

17. The Plague, a terrible epidemic, was spread by infected rats. More than 100,000 people died at that time.

18. After the Great Fire most of the City lay in ashes because the houses were made of wood but Londoners rebuilt the City with bricks and stones.

19. Since that time it has continued to grow in size.