1086-1759 The making of Brighton as a seaside resort
Reading Comprehension Questions
1. 100 %
2. St Nicholas's Church. The other buildings were burnt to the ground by the French.
3. They fished for herring in the North Sea.
4. Erosion of the cliffs and flooding destroyed the homes of the fishermen. Fishing was badly affected.
5. By turning Brighton into a health and holiday resort.
6. Glandular complaints, cancer, consumption, ruptures and madness.
7. Dippers and bathers.
8. Ladies were bathed by "dippers"; gentlemen by "bathers". In both cases the bather was wheeled into the sea in a special bathing machine and plunged vigorously in and out of the water.
9. Balls (Ballroom dancing) and sporting events.
10. aged 72.
1762-1830 History Quiz: The Prince, The Prince Regent & King George IV
Reading Comprehension Questions
1. Prinny
2. A salute and a firework display
3. He gave him a £500 bribe.
4. He helped to pay for a sewer.
5. swollen glands
6. She inherited money from two dead husbands.
7. Royalty, aristocrats, senior civil servants and city businessmen.
8. He granted her a £6,000 annuity and was buried with her locket.
9. It was one of the largest single rooms in the world
10. They have now become the Dome Theatre.
11. 58 years old
12. 34 years
13. He did not like the crowds and an insult to one of his lady friends had annoyed him.
14. By 7 years.
15. Kneeling with three rings on her fingers i.e. as a devout Catholic who had been married to three successive husbands.
1837-1901 Magnus Volk's Electric Railway
Reading Comprehension Questions
1. 1830
2. Sixty-four
3. By erecting The Clock Tower
4. He was 50 when Victoria died.
5. telegraph sets, telephone exchanges, an electric motor car, electric lighting.
6. It nearly doubled.
7. The coming of the railways. Improved transport.
8. He built the West Pier and designed the Aquarium.
9. Volk's house, The Royal Pavilion, The Grand and Metropole hotels.
10. Because the platform was raised on very long legs, resembling a section of a pier.
11. It weighed 40 tons and could carry 150 passengers.
12. The 41/2 Km journey took 35 minutes and cost 2 1/2 pence one way.
13. Because of erosion. It would have been dangerous.
14. Because it travelled through the sea, but the vehicle was always in contact with the rails on the sea bed.
15. The Old Chain Pier which was destroyed in 1996.
1983 Text on dirty beaches
1. Pollution experts were called in this week.
2. The sewage was first spotted on Saturday.
3. They claimed that the smell was caused by rotting seaweed.
4. All our doors and windows had to be kept shut.
5. The red flag was run up by the Saltdean lifeguard.
6. Christine Carruthers said that she had swum at Saltdean every day for 30 years.
7. She added that he theory was that there might of been some sort of overflow of sewage as a result of the storms.
8. Cindy Skinner said that she knew the difference between the smell of sewage and rotting seaweed.
9. Elaine Chester said that she wouldn't even let her dog go in the water.
10. Drainage manager Malcolm Latter said that the Portobello outfall had been working perfectly since April.
1985 Text on public transport in Brighton & Hove
1. Because of cowboy operators, non-existent timetables and dangerous buses - i.e. lack of safety and lack of competence.
2. Because of increases in congestion in towns.
3. Because a majority of people still do not have access to a car - they need to get to work, go to the shops and visit friends.
4. Only on profitable routes.
5. Fewer buses at unsocial hours, cuts in cheap or free transport for pensioners and people with disabilities, high fares on the less used routes, unreliable services, disintegration and lack of co-ordination between services, no more innovations or experimental services and greater safety risks.
1. 42 %
2. One in 6 children now suffer from asthma
3. Hydrocarbons and Benzene can cause cancer and airborne particles are linked to asthma.
4. Around ten thousand deaths each year.
5. Brighton & Hove Transport Group, Brighton Friends of the Earth, Brighton & Hove Buses and Brighton Blue Bus Services.
Planning a wedding and honeymoon in Brighton
1. As you leave the station, go straight on till your reach The Clock Tower. Then turn left into North Street. Continue down North Street until you reach the junction of East Street just before the end of the road. You will see the Royal Pavilion on your left.
2. Go back to East Street and continue until you arrive at the sea front. Turn right into Kings Road. Carry on until you get to the junction of Ship Street. The hotel is on the near corner.
3. Continue westwards along Kings Road until you come to the junction of West Street. Turn into West Street and continue past The Clock Tower. You will soon see the railway station in front of you.
Table of Logical Connectors
Linking sentences on Brighton
1. but | also (equally)
2. compared with | However
3. Firstly | Secondly |Finally
4. at first | Moreover | After a while | Finally (In the end) |
5. Otherwise | Incidentally | Moreover | For example |
6. In short
7. Alternatively
8. That is to say | Consequently | However | out of | In other word
Living in Brighton
Table of Phrasal & Latinate Verbs
Kimi 1: Eiji 1: continues escape
Kimi 2: reject Eiji 2: economize on
Kimi 3: earn Eiji 3:
Kimi 4: adopt Eiji 4: excluding ... from maintain
Kimi 5: pospone Eiji 5: performing
Kimi 6: erect Eiji 6: delay introduce fight
Kimi 7: accommodate Eiji 7: isolated
Kimi 8: explain