www.newsbrowsing.blogspot.hu April
issue 2013
SPRINGTIME IN
ENGLAND – A SEASONAL CELEBRATION
The picture headings have been removed. Choose from the
headings A-K the one which matches the photos 1-11.
A Bluebells
beside Crummock water in the Lake District.
B Arts and
crafts style houses at Port Sunlight, Wirral.
C A quiet moment for a boy and some sheep at Much
Wenlock in Shropshire.
D The
13th-century bridge at Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire.
E The Cross
of St. George flies above the village church at Norton in County Durham.
F Water
tumbles over the rocks at Glen Lyn Gorge in Lynmouth, Devon.
G Waves
crash against the rocks at Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland.
H A fountain cascades out of the lake in St.
James’s Park, London.
I Primroses
carpet the floor of Twyford Woods in Lincolnshire.
J Musicians
for the morris men at Thaxted in Essex.
K Punting
on the River Cam in Cambridge.
PISTOU SOUP
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their meanings in English.
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OLD ENGLISH
SKITTLES
Seven sentence chunks have been removed from the article.
Choose from the sentence chunks A-G the one which fits each gap 1-7.
A …although
you are playing against someone…
B …but
we’ve kept it going and it would be such a shame for itt o disappear…
C …and by
the 1970S there were just three surviving teams…
D …all involving the basic strategy
of throwing a projectile from one end of an alley to a set of pins at the
other…
E …but Old English Skittles is the
oldest and …
F …a game which requires a compelling
mix of brains and brawn…
G …while the older members of the
group are into their eighties…
MADE IN ENGLAND - BIRD’S CUSTARD POWDER
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production
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