b. Maybe some of you have built a sandcastle and scooped out the sand and filled
it with water.
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a. If they wanted to let anyone in they would lower a wooden bridge on chains…
Task 8 (8 min)
Use the words given to complete the summary of the text
grass, walls, nasty, moat, drawbridge, enemies, permission,
A big tower was built in 1066 by William the Conquerer. Later other kings and
queens built smaller towers and ………… and this is what is now known as the
Tower of London. Later King Richard I made a ………. around the walls of the
Tower so that the ………. could not get in to it. You could get into the Tower only
if you had ……….. If the people from inside did not want to let people in, they
lowered a wooden ………… across the moat. The enemies could not swim across as
the moat was full of ………. smelling things. The moat is no longer there, now
there’s ………. where the water used to be.
Task 9 (homework)
a. If you would like to learn how people in England lived when the Tower of
London was built, read the text: “Can we imagine what it would be like to live
1000 ago in England?”
Task 10(homework)
Read the text that was suggested for further reading in task 9.Then write an essay
with the following topic: “Would you like to live in England 1000 ago?”
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