7 Complete the text with the words in the box. include century population people
ago called River city lived
ed
Birmingham is a
in the centre
of England. It is on the ?
Rea.
People first
in Birmingham
more than a thousand years
In those days it was
Brummagem and it wasn't very big. In the
17th 6
only 15,000 people lived
there. Today the
is over a
million.
The 8
of Birmingham are
called 'Brummies'. Famous people from
Birmingham
9
the writer J.R.R.
Tolkien and the singer Ozzy Osbourne.