COUNTRY STUDIES QUIZ

1.  London was born hundreds of years before our era. Here, on the banks of the Thames, was a small settlement named Llyn-din, which means a lonely port. To this place in the year 55 before our era      came from Rome.

2.    was the first name of London and the city was founded in the times of    .

3. The oldest part of London is    .   It can still show the remains of the defensive wall and some other signs of Roman times.

4. In 1066 William, the Duke of Normandy, or   ,  and his people went to England from   in France.

5. The Lord Chancellor sits on the "   ", because in the old times    made England rich and powerful.

6. This is Downing Street. At No 10   live. And have lived for the last two hundred years.

7. This is Whitehall. There used to be a palace here once , the White Hall, where from the twelfth to the sixteenth century the English kings and queens lived. Now it is just    of government offices.

8. The Londoners call the Bank of England “  ” .

9. Every   the Queen meets the Prime Minister.

10. In Great Britain compulsory schooling begins at the age of    .

    Your day will start at Buckingham Palace, the official London    of Queen Elizabeth II where you    be able to see the Changing of the Guard. From here,    will take you on a tour of some of the city's famous   ,   before     you at Hyde Park, one of London's most famous parks. In the afternoon, having passed by the    Royal Albert Hall, you will   in Knightsbridge and have the chance to visit one of the most famous    in the world, Harrods.   up Brompton Road and   right into Exhibition Road, you will then visit   the Science Museum or the Natural History Museum.