1 a) Reading & Vocabulary
10.3.7 10.4.8 10.5.2 The words below
come from the text. What do you think
they mean? Tell your partner. Check in
your dictionary
• blood pressure • body temperature • skull
hemisphere • nerve fibre • neurologist
• synapse • neuron

The spirit of London
1.Visitors can appreciate the contrast between past and present of London .
2.The transformations of old buildings and rediscovery of the city river .
3.To explore and observe historical delights or walk through the ages of The City of Londin the visitors can go on foot .
4.London is not a historical theme park. It is a lively and exciting metropolis with it expensive restaurants , unique boutiques and exclusive department stores .
5.Soho is the city's liveliest and the most bohemian area in London .
Despite its heavy traffic and shaking underground railway, it is still one of the world's greatest and most cosmopolitan cities.

As for me, my life - that is my language. Like to many of you, English is not my mother tongue. It is a foreign language to me. When I was a little girl, I was always amazed by kids in a film having a chit-chat in a language that I didn’t understand at all what they were talking about, and yet, I sometimes acted as if I was one of them. Probably, that feeling had driven me having excitement in learning English even though at that time I had no idea whether the film was in English or in another foreign language.

It was my late father who introduced me by chance to English words. He loved reading. For that, in his spare time he went downtown to buy some used-books from street vendors. Someday, my father came home and brought some used books where I found an English book of fairy tales among others. I couldn’t read even its title, for sure, since I was at second grade of my primary school, but I found some interesting pictures in it and some keywords on the outer column of each page. So, I chose a picture and asked my father to read the story about it. I sat down side by side with him and he began to read a full sentence in a deep voice and then gave me its translation. Once in a while he got stuck in the meaning of a word, and so he opened English – Indonesian dictionary in order to figure it out. That was my first English reading session as well as my first experience to know how to use dictionary. Ever since, reading English become our regular agenda whenever my father was at home.