Номер 12, страница 136, часть 1 - гдз по английскому языку 4 класс учебник Верещагина, Афанасьева

Часть 1. Town life. London. Lesson 27 - номер 12, страница 136.

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12 Read the text and name its parts. Here are some more facts about the history of London.

I At the beginning of the 11th century England was already a great country and London was a very important city. In 1066, William the Conqueror³ and his people came to England from France [frɒ:ns].

William the Conqueror became King¹ of England. The King lived in London. Many of his people lived in London too. But William was afraid of the people of London and he built the White Tower² to live in it. Now it is one of the most important and beautiful buildings of the Tower of London.

II In those days people usually built houses of wood. Sometimes there were fires in the city, but they were usually very small. 1666 was the year of the Great Fire of London.

On Saturday, 2nd September, 1666, there was a strong wind from the river and a big fire began. It started in the house of the king's baker,³ near London Bridge.

The baker's wife woke up in the middle of the night because the house was on fire. Soon the next house started burning and then the next and the next ... The fire burnt until Thursday.

Many houses in London were burnt. The fire burnt for four days. More than 250 thousand people didn't have home any more.

After the Great Fire people built a new city. It became larger and larger. By 1830, there were more than one and a half million ['mɪljən] people in London. The railways¹ came and London became richer and richer.

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