Презентация по английскому языку "Big Ben"

Big Ben

• Big Ben is a popular tourist name for the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster. The official name of the tower since 2012 is Elizabeth Tower

• It is believed that the bell was named big Ben (Big Ben) in honor of sir Benjamin Hall, curator of construction work According to another version, it is named after Benjamin count , a famous heavyweight boxer. The official name until September 2012 was "the Clock tower of the Palace of Westminster", in the press it was often called the Tower of St. Stephen. By decision of the British Parliament, it was renamed Elizabeth Tower, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

• The tower was built by the English architect Augustus Pugin in the neo-Gothic style in 1859, the tower clock was launched on may 31, 1859.

Interesting fact

• British parliamentarians who took the decision to build the tower in 1844 insisted that the clock installed on it must necessarily become the most accurate in the world. Only on this condition did they agree to provide the necessary funding. From which we can conclude that if the designers could not convince them that this would be the case, then the construction of big Ben might not have begun.

• The tower is slightly tilted to the Northwest

• Only UK residents are allowed inside the tower.

• Big Ben was also in the role of ... prison. Parliamentarians who were too boisterous at meetings were confined in the tower. Her last prisoner was a representative of the feminist movement Emmeline Pankhurst, who fought for women's equality. There is a monument to her near the Palace of Westminster

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