The British Museum, in the Bloomsbury area of London, England, is a public

institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of
some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in
existence, having been widely collected during the era of the British Empire. It
documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. It was the
first public national museum in the world.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the
Irish physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. It first opened to the public in 1759,
in Montagu House, on the site of the current building. Its expansion over the
following 250 years was largely a result of expanding British colonisation and has
resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the Natural
History Museum in 1881.
In 1973, the British Library Act 1972 detached the library department from the British
Museum, but it continued to host the now separated British Library in the
same Reading Room and building as the museum until 1997. The museum is a non-
departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media
and Sport, and as with all national museums in the UK it charges no admission fee,
except for loan exhibitions.
Its ownership of some of its most famous objects originating in other countries is
disputed and remains the subject of international controversy, most notably in the case
of the Elgin Marbles of Greece and the Rosetta Stone of Egypt.

Exercise
1. Call
2. Ring
3. Will tell
4. Would listen
5. Take
6. Were
7. Could have died
8. Wouldn’t be
9. Will eat,like
10. Will fly
11. Has
12. Would go
13. Studies
14. Ate
15. Will clean
16. Didn’t be so careless
17. Doesn’t put
18. Were
19. Handn’t been
20. Practice
21. Would cut
22. Called
23. Will get
24. Will arrest
25. Will bring
26. Paied
27. Would have enjoied
28. Gave
29. Will borrow
30. Wouldn’t make
31. Were
32. Didn’t be
33. WOULDN’T BE
34. Would punish
35. Would read
36. Need
37. Stop
38. Accepted
39. are
40. Didn’t be
41. Is
42. Receive
43. Didn’t find
44. Shone
45. Will know
46. Finishs
47. Would move
48. Would be
49. Orders
50. Fasten
51. Would cause
52. Didn’t find
53. Would become
54. Kept
55. Wished
56. Would kill
57. Will feel
58. Won
59. Would go
60. Didn’t feel
61. Had lived
62. Knew
63. Didn’t are
64. Would be able