Oxford

      Tittle: Oxford

Author: Andy Hopkins and Joc Potter

Publishers: Oxford university press

Summary:

More than 111.000 people have their homes in Oxford. But in some months of the 

year there a lot more people in the city, thousands of students come from other

towns for parts of the year. The city is an important centre for work,

shopping and nightlife.

Oxford is not as old as some other Engli12sh cities. A long time ago religious

people went to the University of Paris to study; now they started to come go

Oxford.

Under the protestant queen Elizabeth I, life in Oxford was easier than

under her older,

Catholic sister ‘Bloody Mary’. In Elizabeth England there were still problems

between Protestants and Catholics in Oxford.

It was fashionable for the rich to send their sons to the University of Oxford,

 and they built new buildings, for example, The Bodleian Library and the

Sheldonian Theatre.

Between 1642-1646 there was a civil war in England.

Some of Oxford’s finest buildings are from eighteen century. In 1844 the

railway arrived in the city, and poorer people could travel to and from

Oxford more easily.

Oxford started to look like a modern city, in North Oxford rich people lived in

more expensive houses. The first woman got her degree in 1920.

William Morris was an important part in the history of Oxford, he was mending

bicycles. He enjoyed racing and making the machines, and then he opened a shop

in the city centre to sell them.

He liked cars too, and he made his first car in 1913. Later he opened a car

factory in Cowley. He helped to make Oxford a modern city, and he gave a

lot of money to hospitals.

In Oxford, during the Second World War, to help people, in Greece a charity

named Oxfam was started. After the war Oxfam decided to help other

people around the world who were hungry or homeless.

Oxford had more visitors and the city needed hotels, food and other facilities,

so a lot of people work in the tourist industry.

Oxford is a beautiful city. By day people enjoy walking near the green

gardens. Oxford has some of Britain’s finest museums (the Museum of the History of Science, the University Museum and the Museum of Modern Art).

1^st of May, people wait in the street outside Magdalen College, and at six

o’clock there is singing from the top building.

St Giles’ Fair is in early September, in this day people come into the city to

buy and sell,at and drink, and play sports.

The Boat Race takes place on the Thames in London every year. It is a race

between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge

There are pubs with live music and pubs with popular games, there are a

number of cinemas in Oxford and two main theatres

One place that people visit in Oxford is the small country town of Woodstock,

and its palace named Blenheim Palace.

To the west of Oxford there are the Costwold hills with their villages and small

towns of the yellow-grey stone.

Opinion: It is interesting if you want to know things about Oxford.

FOUR SHORT STORIES

Title: Four Short Stories

Author: Margery Morris

Publishers: Collins English Library

Summary:

1rst Story (Death and Money): There were three young men in a hotel and a kid told them that there was a

dead man outside the hotel. The barman said that “The Death took all the lives”. One of the young men asked where the Death was to kill it. The barman told them that the Death lived under the tree on the mountain. Under the tree there was only money. Two of those men wanted the money for them and they decided to kill the other man. The other man decided to kill the other two to get the money. At night they killed each other. It’s true the Death was under the tree.

 2nd Story (Tobermory the Cat): One August afternoon Lady Blemley was in her sitting room with her friends. One of them, Mr Appin told them that he could teach English to her cat, Tobermory. Tobermory came to the room and he began to talk. All of them began to ask to Tobermory a lot of questions about his family. Tobermory told them a lot of secrets about his family. Lady Blemley threw Tobermory out of home and he didn’t come again.

3rd Story (The Monkey´s Foot): Mr and Mrs White lived in a small house with their son, Herbert. They 

wanted to buy a house near the town, but they hadn’t money. One day an old friend went to their house for dinner. He had a Monkey’s Foot, an object that granted wishes. The old friend gave them the Monkey´s Foot. They wished money. The next day Herbert didn’t come to the house, he worked in a factory. A man came to his house and said to them that their son was dead and he gave them money on the part of the factory. They threw the monkey’s foot through the window.

4th Story (You Can’t Have Everything You Want): Gopal lived in a small house near the river, with his wife, Nataki. They were very poor. Nataki wanted to live in a big house. One day Gopal caught a magic fish and the fish told him that if he returned it to the river, it would give him a wish. When Gopal arrived at his house, Nataki was very happy because the house was very big. Gopal told Nataki all that had happened. Nataki told him a lot of wishes and all days Gopal told the fish a wish of Nataki and it made them real. One day Nataki wanted to be the Queen, and Gopal told the wish to the fish. The fish told them that it would never come back again and that you can’t have everything that you want. When Gopal returned to his house all the things that he had asked for disappeared. Nataki was very angry but Gopal was happy and he continued his poor life.    

Opinion: I think that the book is very interesting and very exciting.

Oxford

Tittle: Oxford

Author: Andy Hopkins and Joc Potter

Publishers: Oxford university press

Summary:

More than 111.000 people have their homes in Oxford. But in some months of the year there a lot more people in the city, thousands of students come from other towns for parts of the year. The city is an important centre for work, shopping and nightlife.

Oxford is not as old as some other English cities. A long time ago religious people went to the University of Paris to study; now they started to come go Oxford.

Under the protestant queen Elizabeth I, life in Oxford was easier than under her older, Catholic sister ‘Bloody Mary’. In Elizabeth England there were still problems between Protestants and Catholics in Oxford.

It was fashionable for the rich to send their sons to the University of Oxford, and they built new buildings, for example, The Bodleian Library and the Sheldonian Theatre.

Between 1642-1646 there was a civil war in England.

Some of Oxford’s finest buildings are from eighteen century. In 1844 the railway arrived in the city, and poorer people could travel to and from Oxford more easily. Oxford started to look like a modern city, in North Oxford rich people lived in more expensive houses. The first woman got her degree in 1920.

William Morris was an important part in the history of Oxford, he was mending bicycles. He enjoyed racing and making the machines, and then he opened a shop in the city centre to sell them.

He liked cars too, and he made his first car in 1913. Later he opened a car factory in Cowley. He helped to make Oxford a modern city, and he gave a lot of money to hospitals.

In Oxford, during the Second World War, to help people, in Greece a charity named Oxfam was started. After the war Oxfam decided to help other people around the world who were hungry or homeless.

Oxford had more visitors and the city needed hotels, food and other facilities, so a lot of people work in the tourist industry.

Oxford is a beautiful city. By day people enjoy walking near the green gardens. Oxford has some of Britain’s finest museums (the Museum of the History of Science, the University Museum and the Museum of Modern Art).

1^st of May, people wait in the street outside Magdalen College, and at six o’clock there is singing from the top building.

St Giles’ Fair is in early September, in this day people come into the city to buy and sell, eat and drink, and play sports.

The Boat Race takes place on the Thames in London every year. It is a race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge

There are pubs with live music and pubs with popular games, there are a number of cinemas in Oxford and two main theatres

One place that people visit in Oxford is the small country town of Woodstock, and its palace named Blenheim Palace.

To the west of Oxford there are the Costwold hills with their villages and small towns of the yellow-grey stone.

Opinion: It is interesting if you want to know things about Oxford.