Famous landmarks in Europe Talking about facts

and figures
The Tower of London, London The Eiffel Tower, Paris
Dates
The Tower of London is a The Eiffel Tower was built
famous royal building in the in eighteen eighty-nine We say …
UK. It’s over nine hundred (1889). It’s three hundred eighteen eighty-nine
(900) years old. and twenty-four metres
(324m) high and it’s got one twenty twenty-six
There’s a ceremony every
evening at nine fifty-three thousand six hundred and eleven seventy-three
pm (9:53pm) to lock the sixty-five (1,665) steps.
doors. The Queen can live in There are also lifts to the
We write …
the tower if she wants to! second (2nd) floor so that It was built in 1889.
people in wheelchairs can
It will be finished in 2026.
go up.
It was started in 1173.

The Sagrada Familia, Barcelona Measurements

The Sagrada Familia was designed by
We say …
Antoni Gaudí. The builders started building
on the nineteenth of March eighteen one thousand six hundred and sixty-five
eighty-two (19th March 1882) but it isn’t fourteen thousand five hundred
finished yet! Seventy percent (70%) of
it is finished, but we have to wait until one point four million
twenty twenty-six (2026) before it’s finally
We write …
complete!
It’s got 1,665 steps.
It weighs 14,500 tonnes.
It gets 1.4 million visitors.
Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa Neuschwanstein is a very beautiful
castle. Every year, more than one
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is interesting point four (1.4) million people visit it!
because it leans! The tower was started One part of the castle has got space
Find out where in Europe
in eleven seventy-three (1173) and took for two hundred (200) rooms, but these famous landmarks
over two hundred (200) years to finish! only fifteen were finished.
are. What information can
It’s got two hundred and fifty-one (251) A Lego model of the castle was
steps inside and it weighs fourteen made, and it needed more than three you find about other famous
thousand five hundred (14,500) tonnes. hundred thousand (300,000) bricks! landmarks in Europe?
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 Practising English together

Dos and don’ts

Do:
• encourage your classmates to
speak English.
• listen when someone else is
speaking.
• help if someone is finding their
work difficult.
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Spend time
teacher or classmates.
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your classm e r est s and Choo s e a n
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Can you think of other

ways you can practise
English together?

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