Narrator: Part Four. Listening Exercise 4.1. Listen to the following sentences, pausing your machine aftereach sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard:
a. London is the capital city of Great Britain.
b. The Romans established what they called Londinium in 43 AD.
c. The city is by far the largest in Europe covering an area of approximately 620 square miles.
d. London is the political and financial heart of the nation.
e. The Houses of Parliament building stands on the banks of the River Thames.
f. Members of Parliament representing their electors debate changes to law within the House of Commons.
g. The City of London, also called the Square Mile, has been the financial centre since the Middle Ages,h. The Bank of England was built in 1694 to fund the war with France.
i. Most of the important money markets had their origin in sixteenth-century coffee shops.
j. Much of the architecture of London was built in the nineteenth century during the reign of Queen Victoria. |