Total English

Pre-intermediate
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Unit 1 - London
Narrator:
Most Londoners are still asleep when work begins in the city’s ancient
markets. The streets are empty in the early morning, so it’s the best time to
make deliveries.
It’s an hour or two later and office workers are arriving from the suburbs. More
than three million people travel into London everyday. Tourists soon appear,
keen totake a ride on the London Eye or visit museums and famous sites like
The Tower of London before they become too busy.
You always know what time it is if you’re near Westminster. The clock tower
bell called Big Ben chimes every quarter hour.
By ten o’clock in the morning the shops along Oxford Street are open for
business. You can find some of London’s most famous shops along this
street.Nearby is Covent Garden, a lively neighbourhood with trendy
boutiques and market stalls.
It’s now eleven thirty in the morning and crowds are waiting outside
Buckingham Palace for the changing of the guard. It’s a tradition that goes
back hundreds of years.
Londoners stop for lunch at about one o’clock. You might want to sit down to
a traditional roast beef dinner at London’s oldest restaurant.The river is like a highway. Tourist boats run up and down the Thames
passing landmarks like the Houses of Parliament and St Paul’s Cathedral. It
can rain any day of the year in London, so be prepared for wet weather. If
you’re lucky, you might see Tower Bridge opening to let a large boat pass
through.
People visit London’s green parks in the afternoon to walk or just sit for a
while andrelax.
The famous Swiss clock on Leicester Square tells you that it’s five o’clock.
This is the time that London’s evening rush hour begins.
Theatres open in the West End at about seven thirty. Many of the world’s best
loved plays and musicals were first staged here. Restaurants are busy at this
time of night and so are the cinemas. Londoners don’t stop having fun when
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the pubs and restaurants close. From about eleven o’clock people start
queuing outside the clubs. London is a city that never sleeps.

Unit 2 - Summer holiday
Don: We’re going where the sun shines brightly
We’re going where the sea is blue
We’ve seen it in the movies
Now let’s see if it’strue…..oo..
Everybody has a summer holiday
Doing things they always wanted to
So we’re going on a summer holiday
To make our dreams come true ..oo..oo
For me and you….
Don: I’ve got it!
Steve: Got what?
Don: This bus………London Transport said OK
Cyril: OK?
Edwin: OK to what?
Don: OK to use this bus for transport on a holiday! …They’re with it!
Cyril: With what?
Don: With the plan I outlined tothem today!
Edwin: What plan?
Cyril: Yes, that’s right. What plan?
Don: If we can do it once, they’ll back us all the way!
Steve: Look can you explain in words of one syllable exactly what you’re
talking about?
Don: Listen you nut. I persuaded London Transport to lend us this old bus.
We’ll fix it up like a mobile hotel. This year we live in it, take it to the
south of France. Then nextyear we’ll be ready to take paying
passengers! The sky’s the limit.
S, C & E: Great.
Don: We’re all going on a summer holiday
No more working for a week or two
Fun and laughter on our summer holiday
No more worries for me or you
For a week or two
We’re going where the sun shines brightly
We’re going where the sea is blue
We’ve seen it in the movies
Now let’s see if it’s true
Everybodyhas a summer holiday
Doing things they always wanted to
So we’re going on a summer holiday
To make our dreams come true
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For me and you

Unit 3 - Jamie Oliver
Narrator:
Jamie Oliver is one of the most popular chefs on British Television. He’s
famous for his recipes,...