Talking about British landmarks
Learning Easy English

Talking about British landmarks

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 20266 min
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Georgie and Phil have a real conversation in easy English about British landmarks – famous sights around the United Kingdom. Learn some vocabulary about sightseeing and find out Georgie and Phil's favourite UK landmarks. Get the video version of this podcast, plus a free worksheet and transcript here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/real-easy-english/261016 Sign up to our email newsletter! It comes out weekly out Wednesdays: https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u178220599 And improve your English with more programmes at your level: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/easy_course

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Now those are famous buildings like the Royal Albert Hall or like Big Ben in London.

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Yeah, that's a famous clock tower.

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. I'm good, I'm good. I wanted to ask if you've been to any famous places or landmarks in London recently. It's funny you should ask because I did. A few days ago I went to the Royal Albert Hall which is a famous concert hall in London. Okay, so Georgie, today we're talking about landmarks, British landmarks.

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Now those are famous buildings like the Royal Albert Hall or like Big Ben in London. That's a really famous landmark that everyone knows. Yeah, that's a famous clock tower. But before we start talking about landmarks, I need to remind people that they can download

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a free worksheet to test the vocabulary they learn in this programme at bbclearningenglish.com. Okay, so Georgie, you just said you'd been to the Royal Albert Hall, which is a famous concert hall in London. Why did you go there? I went to a classical music concert, but this was not the first time I've been to the Royal

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