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Skills Skills

Reading

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1 Read the text and circle T (True) or F (False)
for the sentences below.

The Ravens at the

Tower of London (by Fran)

One of the places we visited on our tour was
the famous Tower of London. We saw a lot of
interesting things there. We saw the Crown Jewels. They were amazing! I didn’t know
there were a lot of different crowns. My brother loved the torture chamber but I liked
the ravens best. Ravens are very big birds. They can be over 60cm long. There is a
group of six ravens on the grass around the Tower. They can’t fl y because their wings
are clipped. They make a lot of noise – it’s not a nice sound, but I thought they were
beautiful. You have to be careful of their beaks – they are as sharp as a knife. That’s
why you are not allowed to feed them. The Raven-master, who looks after them, said
that sometimes they have to send a raven back to the centre they came from because
they behave badly with tourists. He also told us that sometimes ravens escape. One
raven, called ’Grog’ escaped and the last time anybody saw him, he was outside a
café!

1 Fran visited the Tower of London with her brother. T / F
2 You can see more than one crown when you visit The Crown Jewels. T / F
3 Ravens are small birds. T / F
4 The ravens at the Tower can fly. T / F

5 Some of the ravens behave badly. T / F
6 ‘Grog’ is the only raven to escape from the Tower. T / F

Listening

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1 The Raven-master explained why the ravens are in the Tower. Listen and complete the text.
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Around 1675, when Charles the .................................................. was king, the royal astronomer
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wanted to observe the sky from the .................................................., but there were a lot of
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3 ................................... there and they disturbed his ................................... . He was
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5 ................................... and asked the king to ................................... them. The King agreed, but before
he ................................... anything, somebody (and we ................................... know who) told him about
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an old ...................................... . The legend said that if the ravens left the Tower, Britain would fall
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and so would the ................................... . The king believed this and ordered that there should
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11 .............................. be ravens at the Tower. And so, here they are. We look after them very
12 ................................... . We don’t want Britain to collapse!

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