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  1. 0:00 Hi Georgie.
  2. 0:01 Hi Phil.
  3. 0:01 How are you?
  4. 0:02 I'm good, I'm good.
  5. 0:04 I wanted to ask if you've been to any famous places or landmarks in London recently.
  6. 0:10 It's funny you should ask, because I did.
  7. 0:13 A few days ago, I went to the Royal Albert Hall, which is a famous concert hall in London.
  8. 0:20 OK.
  9. 0:20 So, Georgie, today we're talking about landmarks - British landmarks.
  10. 0:27 Now, those are famous buildings like the Royal Albert Hall or like...
  11. 0:32 like Big Ben in London.
  12. 0:33 That's a really famous landmark that everyone knows.
  13. 0:36 Yeah, that's a famous clock tower, but before we start talking about landmarks, I need to remind people that they can download a free worksheet to test the vocabulary they learn in this programme,
  14. 0:48 at bbclearningenglish.com.
  15. 0:56 OK.
  16. 0:56 So, Georgie, you just said you'd been to the Royal Albert Hall, which is a famous concert hall in London.
  17. 1:05 Why did you go there?
  18. 1:06 I went to a classical music concert, but this was not the first time I've been to the Royal Albert Hall.
  19. 1:14 No?
  20. 1:15 No, I actually performed there with my choir last year.
  21. 1:20 It was...
  22. 1:21 it was amazing.
  23. 1:22 Oh wow!
  24. 1:23 Phil, have you visited any famous landmarks in London?
  25. 1:28 Yeah, I think...
  26. 1:29 I think I've probably visited most of the famous ones.
  27. 1:32 I've been on the London Eye.
  28. 1:34 That's the big wheel.
  29. 1:37 I've been to Tower Bridge lots of times.
  30. 1:40 I've been in the Houses of Parliament.
  31. 1:43 That's right by Big Ben, where the government is.
  32. 1:46 Phil, why have you been in the Houses of Parliament?
  33. 1:49 It was just something for work, so it wasn't that interesting, but it's good to see the building.
  34. 1:55 You see it from outside all the time, and it's kind of interesting to see it from the inside.
  35. 2:00 It's really...
  36. 2:00 it's a very beautiful building as well, I think.
  37. 2:03 Yeah, it is.
  38. 2:03 So, you've been to a lot of landmarks in London.
  39. 2:06 Do you have a favourite one?
  40. 2:08 My favourite one is actually the river.
  41. 2:13 I love going up and down the river on a boat.
  42. 2:16 Yeah, I really like the river too.
  43. 2:18 My favourite landmark in London is the Tower of London.
  44. 2:22 I went with my dad.
  45. 2:25 It's a very, very old building.
  46. 2:27 I think in history a lot of people died there, so it has a kind of spooky...
  47. 2:34 a spooky feeling there.
  48. 2:36 But it's quite a large area you can walk around and, yeah, it all just feels really old and quite special.
  49. 2:42 OK.
  50. 2:43 So, we've been talking about London, but what about the rest of Britain, Georgie?
  51. 2:48 What's your favourite landmark in the rest of Britain?
  52. 2:51 Ooh, I can't wait to talk about this!
  53. 2:53 One of my favourite places in the UK is Edinburgh, which is the capital of Scotland.
  54. 2:58 And in the city, they have - in the middle of the city, they have a big black rock, like a hill.
  55. 3:06 And on the top, there is the castle, Edinburgh Castle, and it's so beautiful.
  56. 3:12 I used to live there when I was at university and every time I walked past it, I was...
  57. 3:17 I felt like a tourist every day.
  58. 3:19 I was always taking photos of it because it looks unreal.
  59. 3:23 It doesn't look...
  60. 3:25 It looks like it's from a storybook.
  61. 3:28 It's magical, I love it.
  62. 3:30 Yeah, I love Edinburgh.
  63. 3:31 I went there one year for New Year and it was...
  64. 3:33 It's amazing.
  65. 3:34 You can feel the history.
  66. 3:37 There're so many old buildings and it's...
  67. 3:40 yeah, it's very dramatic.
  68. 3:42 I did a guided tour there actually once.
  69. 3:44 It was around Halloween, so it was a kind of spooky-themed guided tour.
  70. 3:51 They took us to a graveyard and they told us stories about witches, and that was really exciting.
  71. 3:59 I like guided tours.
  72. 4:00 Oh yeah, that sounds exciting.
  73. 4:02 So, Phil, do you enjoy sightseeing?
  74. 4:04 So, when you see lots of different landmarks in a city or a country.
  75. 4:09 I do, yes.
  76. 4:11 I think usually when you go sightseeing you see lots of old buildings, usually.
  77. 4:19 And they often give you an idea of how people used to live, how people lived in the past, and I find that really interesting.
  78. 4:29 So yes, if I visit a new city, I almost always go sightseeing at some point.
  79. 4:36 Yeah, I really like sightseeing as well.
  80. 4:39 You can see lots of a city, or it's the best way to see a place, I think, when you visit somewhere new.
  81. 4:45 It can be quite exhausting though, can't it?
  82. 4:47 Especially if you're walking all over the city to see all of these different landmarks.
  83. 4:52 So, Phil, my favourite UK landmark is Edinburgh Castle.
  84. 4:57 Do you have a favourite?
  85. 4:59 Yes.
  86. 5:00 I think it's got to be Stonehenge, just because it is so old.
  87. 5:09 It's thousands of years old.
  88. 5:12 I don't think I've seen anything else that's that old.
  89. 5:18 Yeah.
  90. 5:19 So, the Stonehenge is in England and it's a circle or a ring of really big, tall stones.
  91. 5:28 And humans put it up and it's really amazing because it's not fully known how they did it, because the rocks are so heavy.
  92. 5:38 So, if anyone comes to the UK to visit, I would really recommend going to see that.
  93. 5:50 So, let's look at some of the words that we talked about today.
  94. 5:53 And the big one was 'landmark', and those are famous buildings or famous places that people visit, and usually they know what they look like beforehand, often.
  95. 6:04 Yes.
  96. 6:05 For example, the London Eye.
  97. 6:07 We also heard 'sightseeing', which is when you visit landmarks and famous places in a city or country.
  98. 6:13 Yes.
  99. 6:13 And one of the ways that you can do sightseeing is you can go on a guided tour, and that's when someone, a guide, leads you around different places
  100. 6:25 and they tell you about the history of all those places.
  101. 6:29 So, Georgie, we're out of time.
  102. 6:32 That's it for Real Easy English for this week.
  103. 6:35 But if you like landmarks, make sure you go to our website to check out the London Letter Challenge,
  104. 6:43 where you can see lots of different landmarks and learn easy English.
  105. 6:47 And you can find a free worksheet and transcript on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
  106. 6:53 Goodbye for now.
  107. 6:54 Bye!

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