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Hello, my dear students. How are you today?

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As you can see, today we are going to have a different lesson.

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Today we are going to do a tour around some significant buildings in London and UK.

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So, open your ears and there we go.

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First of all, I want to talk to you about the Millennium Dome.

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It is a large dome-shaped building in Greenwich in south-east London.

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It was built between 1997 and 2000 to celebrate the new millennium.

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It was renamed as the O2 Arena in the year 2005.

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And now it is a concert venue and many famous people, such as Bon Jovi, Prince or the Rolling Stones, have performed here.

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For the 2012 London Olympics, the O2 was used for gymnastics and basketball.

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externally it has 12 100 meter high yellow towers one for each month of the year and one for each

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hour of the clock representing the role played by greenwich meantime another important building

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is the Bullring which is a huge shopping center located in the center of

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Birmingham. It opened in 2003 and one year later about 36.5 million people had

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already visited it. Let's move now to St. Pancras Station. It opened in 1868 so

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this year is the station's 150th anniversary. St. Pancras International

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Station is one of the biggest landmarks in London. It is used by around 45

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million passengers each year and if you want to go to Paris by train of course

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you should know that you have to take the train here. Not too far from this

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station we can get to King's Cross located on the northern edge of the city

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it was opened in 1852 and a few years ago it became very popular for being the

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setting of a well-known film and book I'm not gonna tell you but you will

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probably recognize it by the images and some other London buildings that I would

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like to talk about from left to right the walkie-talkie the gherkin the cheese

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grater and the shard as you can see they are all modern buildings holding offices

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for business people particularly interesting and controversial was the walkie-talkie building

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there have been problems with this building because of the way the building reflects the sun

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the street below became so hot that cars started melting the temperature

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temperature was 94 degrees centigrade on the street. Can you imagine? You could even fry an

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egg there. So that's all about my video. I hope you liked and see you tomorrow.