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VIII. Read the following selections and speak about the main cities in Britain.
Birmingham
In the heart of England about 112 miles north-west of London is Birmingham.
Birmingham is a city with the population of over one million. It is the centre of the
iron industry. The district around Birmingham is known as the Black Country. It is
the land of factories and mines. Steam-engines, motor-cars, railway carriages, bicy-
cles and agricultural implements are manufactured in the factories of the Black Coun-
try.
Manchester
Great Britain lives by manufacture and trade. Its agriculture provides only half
the food it needs, the other half of its food has to be imported.
Britain is one of the most highly industrialized countries in the world: for every
person employed in agriculture, eleven are employed in mining, manufacturing and
building. The industrial centres of Great Britain are London, Manchester, Birming-
ham, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield and others.
Manchester is the centre of the cotton industry. With its large suburb Salford
Manchester has a population of nearly one million. Manchester has few ancient build-
ings but few English cities have better parks of which there are over fifty. The largest
of them is Heaton Park. Manchester is rich in libraries and schools. The University of
Manchester founded in 1880 is famous for its studies.
Bristol
Bristol is not a very large port. It is smaller than Plymouth, Liverpool, Ports-
mouth and Dover but it is very beautiful.
Bristol is divided into two parts. One of them is the port on the Avon with nar-
row streets, old churches and half timber houses. It has a wooden eighteenth century
theatre untouched since those days.
This was the port from which many ships sailed in Elizabeth’s reign. The eight-
eenth century stone houses climb up the hills past the beautiful and little known ca-
thedral to the second part of Bristol. This part is more modern and it has many fine
houses built of pink stone and many wonderful monuments and churches. Bristol has
a college named College Green, the University, the art gallery and some museums.
The University building has a very high tower from the top of which you can see Col-
lege Green, many churches and Park Street.
Oxford
Oxford is one of the finest and most ancient cities. Oxford has had its University
since the twelfth century. It contains twenty-eight colleges. Among the most beautiful
of the colleges are Magdalen with its lovely chapel tower and Christ Church. Most of
the colleges have big and well-ordered gardens.
Many years ago there was a city wall, built in the thirteenth century. Now it is
ruined but you can see a portion of this wall running through the garden of a new col-
lege.

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