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Cambridge English Assessment (2019) Key Trainer for Schools. 2nd edition. Will's blog. Cambridge University Press: Malaysia.

 

Three museums

 Three museums

 

Eureka!

Eureka! Is a complete hands on experience, which means that visitors can actually pick up any object in the museum. It’s a great way for young visitors to learn about the world, the body, how things work and move. And when you buy an entry ticket, it allow you to come back as many times as you want for a whole year for no extra cost. As Eureka! Is right next to Halifax train station, it’s very easy to get to from all over the country.

 

Museum of Museums

Every time you visit the Museum of Museums, you’ll be able to see something different. And that’s because the things you see there are actually lent by other museums around the country. The museum has lots of different vehicles, from ice-cream vans and old motorbikes to the different kinds of public transport people used to get to work many years ago. You can find out about all this and lots more.

 

Cinema Museum

Ronald Grant, who opened the Cinema Museum in the 1960s, travelled round the country and bought things from cinemas which were closing down. This included old film poster and wooden cinema seating. At the museum, you can now see these and much more, including the uniforms that cinema staff once had to wear.

 

Please let us know by phone or email if you’d like to come. We’ll be happy to see you, but we need to arrange a guide, as it’s only possible to visit the museum as an organised tour.

 

Cambridge Assessment English (2019) A2 Key for Schools Trainer. 2^nd edition. Exam Practice Test 1. Reading and Writing Part 2. Cambridge University Press: Malaysia. Page 17.

Trip to Paris

 Trip to Paris by Stephen Mitchell

 

When my mum told she had to go to Paris for a business trip and suggested that I go with her, I have to admit it wasn’t that keen on the idea at first. It’s not that I wasn’t interested in going to Paris, but I just didn’t think it would be much fun with a parent! In the end, though, Mum managed to convince me that we would have a good time.

We live in London so we didn’t’ have to fly. We took the Eurostar, which is a high-speed train that takes about two hours to get there. I thought that I might be a bit scared as the train travels trough a 50-kilometre-long tunnel underneath the sea between England and France. But as we were travelling when it was already dark, I didn’t realise that we were in the tunnel until we were almost out of it.

 

Once we were in Paris, and apart from a couple of meetings on the first day. Mum was free the rest of the time. We did lots of sightseeing, including going to the Louvre Museum to see Leonardo da Vinci’s painting called the Mona Lisa. I’m not usually a big fan of art galleries, but Mum persuaded me to go, and it wasn’t as boring as I thought it was going to be. It was actually quite exciting to see such a famous painting in real life.

 

The highlight of the trip was when we visited the Eiffel Tower. This famous monument is 324 metres high and has three floors, which you can get to by lift, or you can walk up 669 steps to get the first two floors! I wanted to go to the top floor, but Mum refused. She’s afraid of heights, and said she couldn’t manage anything higher than the second floor, I was a bit disappointed – a friend had been all the way to the top and he’d told me that the view was amazing – but I tried not to show Mum that I minded. In any case, the view from the second floor was pretty spectacular.