CITIES & LANDMARKS Scary Experiences in London WARM UP Hai mai visitato un museo? Descrivilo con tre aggettivi. Quali manufatti ti piacerebbe vedere? Di quali epoche storiche? WRITING SPEAKING Do you think that London offers tourists only cheerful events? Well… wrong! There is a side of the city that only courageous people can explore. Try one of these experiences, if you dare ! The London Dungeon The London Dungeon is a torture museum and offers a macabre tour. To make the exhibition real, it uses live actors and special effects. The museum is divided into themes representing different events of London’s history. Visitors can see various models of ancient tortures, then visitors are taken to a courtroom and three of them are sentenced to death! The tortures. Visitors are taken to a maze full of mirrors where they have to find the way out while actors covered with blood scare them. Labyrinth of the Lost. Terrible smells , dead bodies and horrible cries terrify visitors who think they are back in the Great Plague of London in 1665. The Great Plague. . Visitors walk along the corridors and see the victims of Jack the Ripper (1888) at every corner. Jack the Ripper A scary ride in total darkness takes visitors to the executions at the Tower of London. Boat ride to hell. GLOSSARY : : : : : : : : : : : : blood sangue cheerful allegro courtroom aula di tribunale cry urlo to dare osare to keep tenere maze labirinto plague peste ripper squartatore to scare spaventare to sentence condannare smell odore The London Bridge experience The London Bridge experience is a mysterious place and the tour guides the visitors through its macabre history and horrible executions. Actors take the visitors to the London tombs under the bridge, where zombies and ghosts scare people to death! For young visitors or school groups, the tour is with a special guide, the Guardian Angel, who stays with the group and explains everything. Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is one of the “magnificent seven” cemeteries of London, famous for the legend of a vampire. Maybe this is not just a legend, as some people say that they see the vampire at night and that it disappears when the church bells ring. If you go, let us know if you see it… or run away!