Welcome to all the students who are going to London. This is YOUR blog too! You have one week to share your suggestions for last-minute things to do, for example, what to put in the suitcase! I'm looking forward to your comments too.
Jane
June 7, 2009 (Happy Mother's Day...in France!)
Here you can read the information you heard in Posts 50 and 51.
Post 50
The Tower of London Vocabulary:
1. fortress
2. palace
3. prison
4. ravens ----- LOOK the word UP in your dictionary
5. Beefeaters ----- LOOK in your dictionary
6. crown jewels
7. armoury
8. executions
9. torture
10.The White Tower
Post 51
There is more of London's history in the Tower of London than anywhere else. It is the oldest surviving building in London. It goes back to the Norman Conquest, and before that the site had been used by the Romans and later by the Saxons as a fortress. The Tower has been a fortress, a royal palace, a prison, a treasury, a mint, an arsenal, a royal observatory, and for 300 years there was a royal zoo!
The oldest part is the White Tower, built as a fortress and a family residence by William the Conqueror in 1078.
