London Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

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People come in their thousands for the sport

Churchill was Britain’s Prime Minister at the time of the Second World War

In August and September you can usually visit some of the rooms in the palace, and see paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens. You can also visit some of the palace gardens

The White House / the Kremlin / Buckingham Palace / the Eiffel Tower / the Houses of Parliament / the Parthenon

has many big shops – Selfridges, Marks and Spencer, Debenhams. For smaller shops, go to Covent Garden. Charin

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In that time, many railways were built, and for the first time people could travel by train.

Today, people from all over the world live in London

In 1863, the world’s first underground trains began to run in London, between Paddington and Farringdon