2C1 After Unit 1B OFF THE BEATEN TRACK

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Work in pairs. List as many

famous sites and things to Then share your ideas
do, in London as you can. with the class. Which
places / things to do
sound best? Why?
Read the introduction to an article about visiting London and explain:

1 the title of the article.
2 what kind of impression of London the writer thinks tourists are getting.
With your partner,
decide two places to
contribute to A
hidden guide to ...'
about town you both
know. Write two
short paragraphs in
a similar style to the
article. Use extended
noun phrases .
Read the rest of the article. Match the headings (a- GRAMMAR Noun phrases
h) to the parts of the article (1-6). There are two We can add a lot of information before and after a
headings you do not need. main noun in different ways.
a) Festive food • A walk will lead to a panorama.
b) Free view • A ten-minute walk up a steep path will lead
c) Far out night out to an amazing panorama of London.
d) Leisurely stroll
e) True insights Look at the underlined noun phrases in the article.
f) East End playhouse Match each noun phrase to one of the ways
g) Not just chippies information is added (a-i).
h) Quiet night out a) adding a name of something to the kind of
thing it is
Work in pairs. Try to remember how the words and b) adding a noun before to describe it
phrases in italics were expressed in the article. c) adding several adjectives
Then read the article again and check your d) using a number + noun compound adjective
answers. e) adding a prepositional phrase to show a
1. had never risked going outside of Zone 1 feature
2. people go swimming throughout the year f) a relative clause
3. if you're a bit hungry g) a reduced relative clause using a present (-
4. it also keeps and displays a collection of ing) participle
household objects h) a reduced relative clause using a past
5. Charlie Chaplin once performed at the theatre participle
6. a typical kind of show in Britain i) a reduced relative clause using an adjectival
7. we've happily accepted a large variety of phrase
international food
8. it's almost impossible to logically choose Shorten all the relative clauses as much as
where to go possible. You may need to use extra words.
9. was known for being socially deprived 1) Visit the awe-inspiring cathedral which was
10. after the usual family visitors have gone to bed designed by the architect Antonio Gaudi.
2) I read a fascinating article in the paper by the
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. novelist whose name is Anne Tyler.
 Which two recommendations most appeal to 3) The exhibitions which are held in the centre
you? Why? are accompanied by workshops which are
 Which places don't interest you? Why? suitable for all ages.
 What's the best museum you've been to? 4) There are a wealth of exhibits which are on
What's the most unusual one? show, which date back thousands of years.
Noun + of Rewrite the sentences using noun phrases in each

In the article, you saw several nouns with of. They may space.
describe: 1) The course lasts six weeks and teaches a
• a group (herd of sheep). number of guidelines. If you follow them, you
• number / amount (all manner of). will be able to lose weight quickly and
• a part (the rear of the building). effectively.
• the content (photographs of domestic life). ________________ provides guidelines for
• the thing that was done (performances of ______________________
everything from stand-up comedy to opera).
• the feeling something gives (the weirdness of 2) When arms are supplied to other countries, the
a silent disco). matter often causes controversy.
The _________________ is a
_______________
Match the nouns + of (1-8) to their endings (a-h) to 3) They want to create a new car tax, but a lot of
make noun phrases. people are opposed to the idea.
There's ______________________ to the
1 sign of a goods / blood / labour ______________________
2 tip of b reading / eating / their company 4) The monument was built to celebrate the fact
3 floods of c mosquitoes / flies / wasps Jonson had been born a hundred years earlier.
The _________________ celebrated the
4 bunch of d the EU /jobs / a new art form ______________________ anniversary
5 swarm of e life / things to come / weakness
6 pleasure of f my tongue / the iceberg / the pen Work in pairs. Add information to the subjects and
objects in these sentences. Which pair in the class
7 supply of g flowers / mates / stuff to do can write the longest correct noun phrases in each
8 creation of h complaints / tears / enquiries case?
1) The museum houses a collection.
Work in pairs. Choose a noun phrase from each of 2) Man seeks woman.
the groups and make sentences that are true. 3) A man has won a prize.
A hidden guide to London
DON’T BE A SHEEP! Seeing tourists being guided around London like herds
of sheep, you do wonder what impression of London they’re getting. They
queue for hours outside Madame Tussauds to see a waxwork of Cristiano
Ronaldo, eat in the Hard Rock Café, race round the British Museum looking at
mummies from Egypt, then buy a postcard of the Queen and London is done.
Paris, here we come! I met a foreign businessman recently who’d been coming
to London every year for 20 years but had never ventured beyond Zone 1 on
the underground or the classic sites. Come on, people! London has so much
more to offer!
So let’s tempt you off the beaten track and leave the hordes of tourists behind
.
1. ________________________ Forget spending a 4. ________________________ They say British
small fortune climbing The Shard in central London cuisine is dreadful, which is why we’ve embraced a
– hop on a C2 bus and go to Parliament Hill. A ten- huge array of international food. That said, even
minute walk up a steep path will lead to an amazing supposedly typical British dishes like fish and chips
panorama of London – on a clear day, anyway. And originally came from Europe, so perhaps things
if it’s not clear, you can still stroll round Hampstead have always been this way. We’d say it’s a toss-up
Heath with its natural ponds, where some go for a where to go for our best multicultural cheap eats.
dip all year round. Alternatively, visit the 18th- Go north to Harringay for the best Turkish kebabs.
century stately home, Kenwood House, with its fine Another option would be to head west to Southall
collection of art. And if you’re feeling peckish, they for top South Indian food. While you’re there, you
serve classic English cream teas. could even do a six-hour course with Monisha,
where you’ll tour the local shops for produce and
2. ________________________ Yeah, the British learn to cook the best curry. And if you really want
Museum is great, but as more than one person has fish and chips? Toffs of Muswell Hill is a classic
pointed out, it’s not very British. So if you really ‘chippie’ run by second-generation Greek
want to see how we’ve lived through the ages, you immigrants!
should check out the Geffrye Museum, which
contains eleven living rooms from different periods 5. There was a time that Dalston was synonymous
of history. It also houses a collection of household with social deprivation, drugs and crime. These
objects and photographs of English domestic life. At days, it’s known as one of the hippest places in
the rear of the building, there are four period town, full of trendy bars and restaurants,
gardens showing changing trends in that most underground clubs and cool young things hanging
British of pastimes, gardening. out. The only problem is, there’s no tube station so
it takes a while to get there.
3. ________________________ There are all
manner of performance spaces outside the West 6. So it’s not exactly off the beaten track – it’s London
End, but we’ve chosen The Hackney Empire, a Zoo – but it sneaks into our list for its great Zoo
theatre that once hosted Charlie Chaplin. Today, Late evenings, held throughout the summer after
you can see performances of everything from the usual family visitors are tucked up in bed. As
stand-up comedy to opera, but it’s perhaps best well as seeing the animals under the stars, you can
known for its award-winning Christmas enjoy live stand-up and the cool weirdness of a
pantomimes. The pantomime is a peculiarly British silent disco in which everyone wears headphones
show loosely based around a fairy tale, with (silent apart from some tuneless singing along!).
audience participation and satirical jokes, and
where the leading man is a woman and the main
comic woman character is a man!

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Read the introduction to an article about visiting London and explain:

Noun + of Rewrite the sentences using noun phrases in each

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