Why do we travel?

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The tower of London [ ðə tauə əv lаndən ]
Tower Bridge [ tauə bridз ]
Buckingham Palace [ bаkiŋəm pæləs ]
Trafalgar Square [ trəfælgər skweə]

“Big Ben”. It weighs 14 tons. The hour hands are about 3 metres long and the minute hands are about 4 metres long. The Clock Tower is 98 metres high. The clock and the bell got their names after Sir Benjamin Hall who was a very tall man. He was responsible for this clock. You can hear its sound every hour in London. Big Ben stands near the Houses of Parliament.

the column in the centre there is a statue of Admiral Nelson who defeated the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. There are four bronze lions which look at the square from the monument. There are also two beautiful fountains in it. They are in front of the National Gallery which is one of the best picture galleries of the world.

to see the ceremony of changing the Guard there. The State Rooms, the Royal Collection are open to visitors every year.

is Westmintster Abbey where kings, queens and a lot of famous people are buried.

the home of London Zoo. Today there are more than 8000 animals in the Zoo. Some are very rare, such as the giant Panda.

are wax models of the famous people: Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Marilyn Monro, Michael Jackson, Charlie Chaplin, the British Royal family, Bill Clinton and others. There is no other place where you can see all the celebrities at once, even if they are only wax figures. The wax figures are standing and sitting, and sometimes even moving and talking.

Scottish poet Robert Burns. Let’s read the text and answer the questions.
Robert Burns a well known and a popular Scottish poet was born in 1759. He was born in a poor family of a farmer. There were seven children in it. Robert was the oldest. His father, William Burns, was a farmer and Robert had to help him. His father loved and understood people and Robert learned from his father to love people. His mother had a very good voice and she often sang songs. She knew many folk tales and she told them to her children.
At the age of six Robert went to school because his father wanted him to be an educated boy. Burns was fond of reading and his favorite writer was Shakespeare. At the age of 16 he began to write poems. The heroes of his poems were the heroes of his mother’s stories.

father died and Robert had to work on a small farm but the farm brought him disappointment and misery. In 1791 he had to sell the farm and he became an officer.
The young poet felt the injustice of the world and his protest is shown in his poems. Robert Burns published his book “Poems” when he was 27 years old. He wrote about kindness and honesty of common people. He took part in making a book of Scottish folk songs, writing words for many melodies. He died in 1796 at the age of thirty seven in poverty. His poems are known and loved by people all over the world.