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Hey everyone, I'm Miss Browne and welcome to lesson five of our unit about London in the United Kingdom.

Now in lesson four, we spoke about how to get around London.

And today we're going to think a little bit about, what might you want to see if you were to visit London? So let's have a look at what we're learning about today.

Our key question today is, "What are the landmarks in London?" Say it with me.

What are the landmarks in London? And landmarks are really important places in London.

And they're places which actually show you where you are.

So if you looked up and you saw say the London Eye, which we're going to learn about in a bit, you say, "Oh, I know where I am because that's a landmark.

That's the London Eye." So it helps us to know where we are.

In today's lesson, you will need an exercise book or paper, a pencil, and your brain.

So if you haven't got any of those, pause the video now and go and get them.

Great, well done.

Now, today, we are going to be learning about London as a tourist destination.

Then we're going to learn about different London landmarks, I'm going to tell you some few facts about them, and then we're going to map the landmarks.

So tourist, tourist! A tourist is somebody who visits somewhere so there are lots of tourists in London.

There are lots of visitors who come and visit London.

Landmark, landmark! As I just said, landmark is an important place or a special place that helps you to know where you are.

So you can identify where you are by a landmark, landmark.

Well done.

London tourism.

Did you know that London gets 30 million tourists every single year? And they come from all over the world to visit the city.

They visit it because of its history, which we learned a little bit about didn't we? They visit it because of the sites that you can see and some people visit it because of the food that you can eat here.

And there are lots of reasons why people visit London.

Lots of them need to come on aeroplanes.

And when they come here, they often go to really special places and see the landmarks.

They see the most important sites.

I've got one here on my screen.

Do you know what landmark this is? Yeah, good.

The London Eye.

Well done.

And you can see that I have got a map of London here.

Now, before we go any further, what is the name of the river in London? Tell your screen.

Good.

The river Thames.

Have a look and can you see the blue line? That is the river Thames.

Next question, on this map, you can see lots of these little signs of the red circle with the blue line through it.

Can you remember from lesson four? What does that tell us? It's the? Good job, it's an underground station.

Or as we said, it could be called the tube.

What do you think this green part over here might be? Yeah, it's a park.

The green tells us that it's a park or an area that's potentially grassy.

You can see it, there's actually quite a lot of green space in London and you can see lots of it on our map.

Can you see there's some green space here.

You've got some green space over here, green space here.

So there are actually lots of parks and green spaces in London.

What was the river called? The river Thames.

Thank goodness you've remembered.

Now our first site is just here.

You can tell, is it near the river Thames or far away from the river Thames? Good, it's really near the river Thames isn't it? And our first site is the London Eye.

The? Now the London Eye, has lots of pods.

It's like a massive Ferris wheel.

And it is so tall that if you had 64 red telephone boxes, that is how high it would be.

So you need 64 telephone boxes stacked on top of each other.

And that's how tall it is.

Now, if you start and you start at the bottom down here and you go all the way round, it will take 30 minutes.

So it's not very quick in one rotation, that means one loop of every pod going around, it can take 800 people.

And it's always really busy and lots of tourists love to go and see it and go on it because at the top you get an amazing view of London.

Amazing view and you can see lots of other sites from the top of the London Eye.

What's this the? Great and what's it next to the river? Thames, great.

The London Eye next to the river Thames.

So you've got the London Eye on our map.

The next place we're going to look is here.

Is that near the river Thames? Yeah you're right it is near the river Thames.

Is it on the same bank of the river Thames? The bank is the side.

So this is on the South bank.

Is this on the same side or the other side? Good, it's on the other side.

How might you get from here to here? Cause you can see that there's a bridge cottony, there's lots of bridges that cross the river Thames.

So you can come up to the London Eye, you could cross the bridge and then you would be at Big Ben.

Big Ben! Big Ben is a really famous landmark in London.

And a lot of people think Big Ben is the name of the tower.

This tower here or maybe the name of the clock but actually Big Ben is the name of the bell inside Big Ben that rings the hours.

So if it was three o'clock Big Ben, the bell goes, dong! Dong! Dong! Should we do it together? Let's say it's five o'clock do five dongs for me, ready? Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Well done.

So Big Ben is the name of the bell inside this tower, which is called Queen Elizabeth Tower.

Now, the bell weighs the same as a baby elephant.

It's so heavy, can you imagine how heavy a baby elephant is? Well, the bell in Big Ben weighs the same.

Another interesting fact is that it was damaged in the blitz.

We learned about the blitz didn't we? In lesson three.

In the blitz, Big Ben was damaged in 1941.

So we've got the London Eye.

We've got Big Ben.

And now we're going to go a little bit further down the river, okay? So we're going to go down the river Thames and we've come over here.

And this is the Tower of London, the? And we've already seen a picture of the Tower of London before if you've done lesson three.

And we found out that it was founded by the Normans as part of the North, after the Norman Congress in 1066.

And the cool thing about tower of London is that it is full of jewels.

It's got 23,000 crown jewels in it.

That means they belong to the Royal family and they are all kept in the Tower of London.

Do you think it's a safe place to keep that many jewels? Yeah, I agree with you.

It's got really strong walls and it's got lots of guards.

So it's a really safe place to keep the crown jewels.

It's called the Tower of London.

What do you notice here? What's this? Its water, it is the? River Thames! So the Tower of London is also on the river Thames.

That's interesting.

Lots of sites are based around the river Thames.

Let's have a look at the next.

Over here.

So its sort of in between let's have a look, that is St Paul's Cathedral.

St Paul's Cathedral.

Now that'd be all churches built on the site whilst St Paul's Cathedral now stands.

And one of them's destroyed by fire.

What, when do you think it was destroyed? Good, during the Great Fire of London in 1666.

Well done.

One of the things that was burned was the church that stood on the site of St Paul's Cathedral.

Well done, really good remembering of our history of London.

We've already talked about, we just talked about the Great Fire London and the Blitz, which were the two times that London was nearly destroyed.

It has one of the biggest domes in the world.

This has the dome here, this is what it's called.

It's sort of like a half sphere and this is the dome.

Point to the dome, good job, okay? So it has one of the biggest domes in the world.

So now we've got, point to the London Eye.

Good job that was over here.

Point to the Tower of London, over here.

Point to Big Ben, point to St Paul's Cathedral.

And now we're going to learn about a site over here.

And this is a very special persons house.

Who might be a special person who has a house in London? Tell your screen? Oh I bet lots of you got the right answer.

This is Buckingham Palace.

Buckingham Palace! Do you know who lives in Buckingham palace? The queen, your right, the queen lives in Buckingham palace.

And it's her official and main home when she is in London.

Now I'm going to tell you how to know if the queen is in Buckingham palace or not.

She has lots of other palaces and castles around the UK.

Can you see on top of Buckingham palace, there is a flagpole this bit here, and you can see that in this picture, the flag is flying.

If the flag is flying, that means the flag is out and waving in the wind, the queen is at home.

So this picture is the queen at home or is the queen not at home? Tell your screen.

Good, the queen is at home and she comes to Buckingham palace quite often.

And the key thing is she's also got guards that look after her and these guards are not allowed to move unless they're marching called, in the process called the changing of the guard.

They have to stay very still.

Can you freeze like a guard? Well done.

It must be really tricky cause they have to stay there for a really long time and they wear this special uniform.

Buckingham Palace! So now we've learned these five landmarks of London.

Put your finger on Buckingham palace, put your finger on the London Eye.

Put your finger on what's this one, put your finger on St Paul's Cathedral.

Put your finger on Big Ben, And finally, finally, we've got one here and this one is in the middle of river Thames.

What do you think you might find in the middle or going across the river Thames? A bridge, well done.

And this is Tower Bridge, Tower Bridge! And 4,000 people go across Tower Bridge every single day, but it's a very special kind of bridge I wonder if you've noticed, in this picture, these two parts are flat and in this picture, they're lifting up.

This is because this is like a Drawbridge.

Why do you think it might need to lift up sometimes? I'm sure some of you said "To let big boats through," and you're so right.

If there's a really big boat it wouldn't fit under here cause its too low.

So as a result, they have to open up the drawbridge and then the boat can sail through.

Well done team.

And that lets people can walk across it and cars and buses can drive across it, but also boats can go underneath it so that they can go down the river Thames.

Tower Bridge! This is our final spot, we've got Tower Bridge.

And you can see it there with the drawbridge coming up.

Right it's time for you to do some quizzing of what you've learned.

This is, is it Buckingham Palace? Is it St Paul's Cathedral? Or is it Tower Bridge? Pause the video now and write the sentence.

"This is," and then choose one of these, not forgetting your full stop.

Off you go, pause the video.

What did you choose? Good job! This is Buckingham Palace, so you should have written this one here.

This is Buckingham Palace.

What about this one? This is? Your options are Buckingham Palace, Big Ben or the London Eye.

Pause the video now and write down that sentence.

You should have written, "This is Big Ben." This one here, this is Big Ben.

What about this one? This is? Is it the Tower of London? Is it Big Ben? Or is it the London Eye? "This is" fill in the blank.

Off you go, pause the video.

Good job, this is the London Eye.

Well done.

What about this one? This is? Is it the Tower of London? Is it St Paul's Cathedral? Or is it Buckingham palace? You could always use, this is quite a long word.

Use the words on screen to help you.

This is? Is it the Tower of London, St Paul's Cathedral or Buckingham Palace? Pause the video now.

This is St Paul's Cathedral.

Well done, really great job.

What about this one? This is? Big Ben, St Paul's Cathedral or Tower Bridge.

Oh there's a clue in the word for that one isn't there? Big Ben, St Paul's Cathedral or Tower Bridge.

"This is," right the answer now, pause the video.

This is Tower Bridge.

You're so right.

Well done, this is Tower Bridge.

And this one, this is? Is it Big Ben, the Tower of London or Tower Bridge? Big Ben, the Tower of London or Tower Bridge? Pause the video now and complete that sentence.

"This is," This is the Tower of London.

You're so right.

All those crown jewels are really safe inside there aren't they? This is the Tower of London.

Team, well done.

You have learned so many landmarks of London and you've learned so much more information.

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I have loved teaching you this unit all about London and the United Kingdom.

Thank you so much for listening so hard and keeping your brains really switched on to learn lots.

Bye!.