Wednesday, 20 February 2013

The Great Fire of London

Quema de Londres


Learn about the Great Fire of London. Click on this link and answer the questions below.



Pink: Burning City

1. When did the Great Fire of London begin?
2. How long did it last?
3. How many people lost their houses?
4. The fire began in ....
a) a bakery      b) a grocery      c) an inn
5. What is the name of the street?
6. Mention four reasons why the fire spread quickly.
7. Who confessed to have started the fire? Was this true?
8. True or False? Most Londoners spent days fighting the fire.
9. How did they try to stop the fire?
10. What helped stop the fire?
11. How many houses and churches were destroted by the fire?
12. What were houses made of at the time?
13. What famous building was destroyed by the fire?
14. How many people died in the fire?
15. What good consequence did the fire have?

Watch the following video on what happened.
  • View of London taken from Southwark in the mid-1600s before the Great Fire. Southwark in the foreground, with the playhouses on the left-hand side and the cathedral in the centre. London Bridge spans the river and then the City of London itself is on the north bank of the Thames, shown as a huddle of crowded, narrow houses and church spires. Detalle de una pintura, que muestra una de las puertas de Londres en llamas


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