Reading Popular Places

Popular Places

Listening

O'’ Lisłen and choose A, B, C or D

There are about in Kew Gardens

A 1,600 B 40,000

different kinds of plants

C 230,000 D 6,500,000

with amazing collections of rare and beautiful flowers and plants, as weII as an exhibition which

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tells the story of the evolution of plants.

There is so much to see and the gardens are so large that it is easy for visitors to get lost. Luckily, the pagoda - a tali, Chinese-style building - acts as a landmark for those exploring the gardens. If you love plants and flowers, Kew Gardens is the perfect place to visit.

2 There is a pagoda in A Southern Florida B Kew Gardens

C Key Largo D Key West

Florida Keys

3 The Florida Keys is A an island B a tropical plant

4 Key Largo is A 50 km B 309 km

long.

C 40 km D 23 km

C a special road D a chain of islands

Reading

Read the texts and mark the sentences C (correct) or I (incorrect), then explain the words in bold.

Kew Gardens

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/A One of the most beautiful places to visit in London is Kew Gardens. Its official name is ^ ' the Royal Botanic Gardens and it was once part of a royal estaffe^ ^!

Lord Capel started the plant collection in the 1 600s and today there are over 40,000 different kinds of plants at Kew Gardens. There are three museums

The Florida Keys is a chain of islands qff, Southern Florida in the USA. It śtretches for over 309 km into the Atlantic Ocean.

There are beautiful tropical plants all over the islands. The largest island in the chain is Key Largo, which is 50 km long. Along its east coast lies the John Pennekamp Coral Ręef State Park, which was the first undersea park in the US. The Overseas Highway, the longest over-wdfer road in the US, joins Key Largo to Key West. It is over 200 km long. Key West is the most important island in the chain, and probably the most famous.

It is easy to see why the Keys were the setting for so many romantic films and sonas. Nowadays, fhey provide the pertect location tor holidays, water sports or just relaxing in the sun.

Lord Capel started the collection of plants in Kew Gardens.

There are beautiful plants both at Kew Gardens and the Florida Keys.