EDIMBURGH CASTLE

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Watch the video again and fill in the blanks with the missing words ( mostly ordinal and cardinal numbers). Then check the KEY below.

Edimburgh, a very beautiful old city, is the capital city of Scotland.

-          About _________people live here and _________people visit every year.

-          Every year in _________there is a festival with theatre, music, dance and comedy.

The original city was built on the Royal Mile, which is about 1.6 kilometres long.

-          It _________at Holyrood Palace and _________at Edimburgh Castle.

-          It is called the Royal Mile because it _________two royal homes.

-          The castle is nearly _________years old.

-          It stands on a piece of volcanic rock and it looks _________on the rest of the city.

-          King David I of Scotland was the _________to build on the rock in _________

-          For the next _________years the castle was at the centre of _________between England and Scotland.

-          In the _________ century the castle became the home of the king of Scotland.

-          In _________James IV built the Great Hall.

-          In the _________ century James VI added extra defences to the castle entrance.

-          In the _________ century Scotland officially became part of the United Kingdom.

-          The last battle at the castle was in ­­­­­_________ when Charles Edward Stuart, nicknamed Bonnie Prince Charlie, tried to capture the castle.

-          In the early _________ century the castle was a prison but now it is a tourist attraction.

-          Visitors come to see the_________, hear the stories and see and hear the one-o’clock gun, but they really come to see the _________of the city of Edimburgh.

KEY

Edimburgh, a very beautiful old city, is the capital city of Scotland.

-          About 400,000 people live here and 6,000 people visit every year.

-          Every year in August there is a festival with theatre, music, dance and comedy.

The original city was built on the Royal Mile, which is about 1.6 kilometres long.

-          It starts at Holyrood Palace and finishes at Edimburgh Castle.

-          It is called the Royal Mile because it connects two royal homes.

-          The castle is nearly 1,000 years old.

-          It stands on a piece of volcanic rock and it looks down on the rest of the city.

-          King David I of Scotland was the first to build on the rock in 1130.

-          For the next 300 years the castle was at the centre of wars between England and Scotland.

-          In the 15^th century the castle became the home of the king of Scotland.

-          In 1511 James IV built the Great Hall.

-          In the 16^th century James VI added extra defences to the castle entrance.

-          In the 18^th century Scotland officially became part of the United Kingdom.

-          The last battle at the castle was in 1745 when Charles Edward Stuart, nicknamed Bonnie Prince Charlie, tried to capture the castle.

-          In the early 19^th century the castle was a prison but now it is a tourist attraction.

-          Visitors come to see the buildings, hear the stories and see and hear the one-o’clock gun, but they really come to see the views of the city of Edimburgh.