London is the capital city of Great Britain b. The Romans estabilished

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Fill in the gaps with the missing details:
a. Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland.

b. The city is often regarded as the most cultured and cosmopolitan city north of London.

c. The Avenue Edinburgh international festival attracts over a million visitors from all around the world.

d. The centre of the city is in two parts: the New Town and the Old Town.

e. The New Town was designed to improve upon the cramp and crowded city condition

f. The Old Town, mediaeval in style, is a maze of narrow alleyways down which suit once ran freely

g. The Festival is actually a concrete series of separate arts festivals lasting 3 weeks.

h. Now the largest art festival in earth, it was once dominated by opera.

i. Today, festival performences range in taste from the exotical and controversial to the highly sufisticated.

j. This most romantic of cities boasts a spectacular castle, set high on top of an extinct volcanic rock.

Fill in the gaps with the missing numbers in the following sentences:
i. The earliest known inhabitants established settlements in Scotland in 6000 B.C.

ii. Scotland is 275 miles long and, at its broadest point, only 115 miles wide.

iii. Edinburgh averages 140 days of rain a year, with an average of 1.89 and 2.72 inches in January

and July respectively.

iv. Its average temperature in summer is 65 degrees Fahrenheit or 18 degrees centigrade.

v. Its average temperature in winter is 43 degrees Fahrenheit or 6 degrees centigrade.

vi. The original Celtic language, Gaelic, is understood by less than 2 percent of the Scottish population.

vii. In 1992, polls showed that 1 out of 2 Scots favoured independence from England.

viii. Edinburgh Zoo, with Scotland's largest animal collection, is set amidst 197.6 hectares of parkland.

ix. Robbie Burns, Scotland's most revered poet, was born on January 25th, 1759 in a cottage in Alloway.

x. There are more than 440 golf courses in Scotland; the game being played as long ago as the 14000s.

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Fill in the gaps with the missing details:
a. Manchester, one of the most important cities in England, is considered by some the northern capital

b. Situated in the northwest, 30miles from Ireland, Manchester is the third largest urbanized area in England.

c. Technological innovation during the industrial revolution enabled the city to become the world's major cotton milling center in the 19th century.

d. Unfortunately, this rapid industrialisation brought property only to the owners of the many factories.

e. The rise of commonism overseas was, in port, a reaction against the explotation of workers in Manchester.

f. Eventually, the city declined in importance, but cotton goods is still known worldwide as Manchester goods.

g. Liverpool, now 6th largest city in England, was the second city of the British empire.

h. The Liverpool were once the site of the busiest ship building activity in the world.

i. Both cities most impressive museums documenting the good and bad uses of industrial technology,

j. Manchester and Liverpool are these days thriving centers of activity and club entertainment for youth.

Fill in the gaps with the missing numbers in the following sentences:
i. Manchester is 195 miles distance from London and 35 miles from Liverpool,

ii. Over 10 million passengers passed through Manchester Airport in 1997.

iii. The new 2400-seater Bridgewater Hall houses northern England's best orchestra, the Halle.

iv. The 1st steam-operated cotton mill opened in Manchester in 1793

v. The University of Manchester has over 18000 students and almost 3000 academic staff.

vi. Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry is open 7 hours a day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

vii. Inside is a working replica of a very early steam train, The Planet, built in 1830 and with a speed of 30 mph.

viii. Liverpool stretches about 13 miles along the River Mersey, but the city centre is only 1 and quarter square miles in size,

ix. The population of Liverpool peaked in 1931 at 8,55,000; today it is just over 5,19,000.

x. For over hundred years, 10th of millions of African slaves were shipped through Liverpool bound for America.