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Activity 6
Below you can see the text from the internet, again. This time, some words
have been coloured. Work with your partners. Can you find out where these
coloured words refer to? Use the same colour each time to link the words
together. The words in pink are provided as an example.
The Tower of London is quite large, and lots of neat things have happened
here. It was built a long time ago by a Frenchman called William the Conquerer who
came over to England in the year 1066—that’s almost 1,000 years ago! He wanted to
build a castle inside a big fort so that future kings could live here. After he died other
kings built smaller towers and walls around the castle William had built, and all the
buildings together became known as the Tower of London.
Later on king Richard I dug a big ditch around it and filled it with water from
the River Thames, and he called that a moat. Maybe some of you have built a
sandcastle and scooped out the sand around it and filled it with water. That’s what
they did at the Tower of London. This made it a very good place for the kings and
queens lo live because their enemies couldn’t get into the fort to attack them.
Nobody could get into the Tower of London unless they had permission from the
people who were inside. If they wanted to let someone in they would lower a wooden
bridge on chains across the moat, and then the people could just walk across. This
bridge was called a drawbridge. If they didn’t lower the drawbridge the only way a
person could get into the castle would be to swim across the moat. Since that was
usually filled with nasty smelling water filled with garbage and old potato peelings,
people didn’t want to swim across. Besides, with the drawbridge up the door was
closed, so even swimming across wouldn’t really work. The moat is no longer there
because it was very smelly, and they probably didn’t want people falling in (…hehehe
…) now there’s just grass where the water used to be.

Activity 7

This activity asks you to fill in some words to make to make a summary of
the reading text. If you need help at any moment, you can refer back to the
text

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