A foreigner in new york

1.What do people do at the Notting Hill Carnival?
Thousands of people go to carnival to eat West Indian food and dance to Caribbean music.

2.What is a Cockney?
Its traditionally from the East End of London. Its a very strange way of talking, called Cockney rhyming slang.

CHAPTER 3.

1.Who built the city of York and what was it originally called?
The Vikings built the city of York and they called it Jorvik.

1.What is guesthouse or B&B?
Its a type of hotel in Britain. Sometimes its called a B&B (Bed and Breakfast).

2.What period of time covered at the Jorvik Viking Centre?
One of thousand years from 948 AD until 1960s.

3.What do we learn about the most famous stained glass window in York Minster?
The most famous window is at the east end of the cathedral and it tells the history of the beginning and the end of the world.

4.What might you hear at night in the Castle Museum?
The ghosts of former prisoners, crying and pulling their chains across the stone floors.

CHAPTER 4.

1.What is special about Oxford University?
Its one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world. 25 British Prime ministers have been educated there.

2.Why was Antonio disappointed when he arrived in Oxford?
He was disappointed because when he arrived in Oxford there were modern shops, Burger Kings and Pizza Huts everywhere. He expected a town thats full of history, not pizzerias.