THE UNITED KINGDOM

 

updated March 4  2018   



13. The UK - Matching game:

14. The UK - Name the countries and capital cities:






13. Matching game :

14. Ecris le noms de ces monuments:


Kate Winslet is in Camden Market.

Emma Watson is at the London Dungeon.

Mick Jagger is in Westminster.

Sean Connery is in the City.

Prince William is in Fulham.

Michael Cain is in Chancery Lane.

Daniel Day-Lewis is in Buckingham Palace.

2. Dictation:


3. DICTATION : Bonfire Night  

Look at the pictures. They tell a story.    

Labour's Sadiq Khan has been elected as London's new mayor - but who is the man who will be in charge of the UK's capital city for the next four years?

The new London mayor did not have a privileged start in life. He was one of eight children born to Pakistani immigrants, a bus driver and a seamstress, on a south London housing estate. His parents, Amanullah and Sehrun Khan emigrated from Pakistan to London shortly before Sadiq was born, in 1970. He was the fifth of their eight children - seven sons and a daughter.

He lived with his parents and siblings in a cramped three-bedroomed house on the Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield, south-west London, sharing a bunkbed with one of his brothers until he left home in his 20s.

(Sadiq Khan - centre)
(Sadiq Khan - centre)

He attended the local comprehensive, Ernest Bevin College, which he describes as "a tough school - it wasn't always a bed of roses". The nickname "Bevin boys" was at that time in that part of south London a byword for bad behaviour.

It was at school that he first began to gravitate towards politics, joining the Labour Party aged 15.

      

Mr Khan was raised a Muslim and has never shied away from acknowledging the importance of his faith. He studied maths and science at A-level with the idea of becoming a dentist. He was switched on to law by a teacher who told him "you're always arguing."

 

He studied law at the University of North London and put his degree to good use straight away, becoming a trainee solicitor in 1994 at Christian Fisher under the human rights lawyer Louise Christian.


The same year he met and married his wife Saadiya Ahmed, a fellow solicitor and coincidentally the daughter of a bus driver - with whom he went on to have two daughters, Anisah and Ammarah.