Английский язык. Александрова Г.А. - 70 стр.

5. Where can we still see wide fireplaces where logs are burnt?
6. What do we call large, modern inns?
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                        Cities of the United Kingdom
       About 58 million people live in Great Britain. It has a very large
population for its size. Nine people out of 10 live in towns and cities.
       No town of comparable size enjoys such universal popularity and
veneration as Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.
Stratford - upon-Avon possesses a peculiarly English character, derived
from its unique heritage of natural setting, history and literary associa-
tions, which has come to make it an international asset of the first order.
       Stratford is a town with a character and atmosphere of its own.
Apart from the beauty of its river, its streets and buildings preserve many
links with its interesting past. Most famous are the properties and gardens
associated with Shakespeare and his family which are preserved as a me-
morial to the past.
       The smooth-flowing Avon is Stratford’s greatest asset, while sec-
ond only in importance is the fine old bridge with its fourteen arches. This
bridge was built at the end of the 15 th century by Hugh Clopton, a native
of the town.
       The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre is the centre of the Shakes-
peare Festival. This brick-built theatre was erected in 1932 to replace an
earlier theatre destroyed by fire. It is without doubt one of the best equipped
theatres and its Shakespearian productions attract an international audi-
ence.
       Shakespeare’s statue (Gower Memorial) stands on the Bancroft,
commanding the approach to Stratford from Clopton Bridge. The statue
of the bard with its figures of Hamlet, Lady Macbeth, Falstaff and Prince
Hall is imposing.
       The house in Henley Street where Shakespeare was born in 1564
and spent his early years is a half-timbered building of a type common in
Elizabethan Stratford. It is visited by pilgrims from all over the world.
The interior of Shakespeare’s Birthplace contain many features of unusu-
al interest. The poet’s birthroom on the first floor is a fascinating room
with a low, uneven ceiling and is furnished after the pattern of a middle-
class home such as the Shakespeare family occupied. In it is the famous

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