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P-2 The four parts of the country: England, Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland Cities: England: London Oxford Manchester Scotland: Edinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen Wales: Cardiff- capital, C-university-low living-cost Northern Ireland: Belfast A. England Manchester Edinburgh Edinburgh Glasgow Aberdeen Cardiff Belfast William Butler Yeats Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1995. Born in rural Northern Ireland, he left his native land to avoid political and religious violence, but his poetry remained centered on the people and places he encountered during his early years in the countryside London from the Air Its a giant Ferris wheel We ride in large capsules The view as we begin to climb The wheel is on the southbank of the River Thames Rising above Big Ben, Parliament and Westminster Abbey The view as we get higher Inside view of the capsule Were approaching the top of the wheel At the top! 450 feet above the groundLooking at the adjacent capsule Now high above Big Ben Parliament and Westminster Abbey Looking down at the capsule below View up the Thames as we start going down Looking up at the capsule above us View looking south Now were about even with Big Ben Trafalgar Square, London London Weather Big Ben is the great bell in the Clock Tower on the eastern end of the Houses of Parliament. It was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, London’s chief commissioner of works in 1858 when the bell was hung. The clocks in the 98-m (320-ft) Clock Tower have been keeping time since 1859. London, Big Ben Big Ben The Windsor bell may have struck twelve for Falstaff, but Big Bens famous chimes are the true song of London. John Buchan’s 39 Steps Big Ben Big Ben Covent Garden伦敦中部一个蔬菜花卉市场 The name Covent Garden dates back to when the area belonged to Westminster Abbey and was a Convent Garden. This was Londons Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable marke