Camden Fashion. Camden Market is made up of many different markets.
The first market was called Camden Lock because it was next to the canal. It first opened in 1972 and is now one of the largest markets in the UK. Half a million people visit Camden market each week. And with hundreds of stalls, there’s something for everyone. But Camden is best known for fashion and famous for punk. Everyone knows what punk fashion is but 30 years ago it didn’t even exist. Punks were young people who were anti-government, anti-popular music and anti-fashion. Punks created their own cheap fashion with torn clothes, safety pins and spiky hair. Punk fashion is still here today and it’s still about rejecting ordinary fashion and standing out, but there are lots of ways of looking different. LearnEnglishTeens. The Queen, and her family, are well-known worldwide.
This is in part due to the influence of the British Empire; during the colonial era, many countries across the globe were under British rule. People often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" - this was because due to the expanse of the British Empire, the sun would always be shining on one of its territories. Babysitting: harder than it looks. Most people assume that babysitting is one of the easiest jobs available for young people.
Many imagine a bored teenager putting a few well-behaved children to bed at 9 o'clock and then continuing to watch television until the parents return home to hand over some money. Well, I can tell you how wrong that stereotype is. As I only work three days a week in France, I decided that a good way to get out of the house – and earn some extra money – would be to look for a babysitting job. I looked after children a lot when I was at school, and I remembered it as being quite easy. I now work all day on a Wednesday for a Ukranian family with three young boys. Now, four months later, I get home at the end of the day absolutely exhausted! Being a babysitter requires you to take on a hundred different roles throughout the day. Despite the exhaustion involved in my job, I usually do enjoy it. Boarding schools in the UK: Class. Robert: Hello, my name is Robert, and I’m studying music at GCSE, as well as many other subjects.Ursule: Hi, my name’s Ursule.
I’m from Lithuania and this is my third year in the school. I’m in Year 11 right now.Robert: And for my music GCSE I have lessons three times a week and we study lots of different music from the Baroque era right until the world music.Ursule: For music, we’ve got two different teachers and one of the teachers teaches us erm, composition and the other one mainly teaches us er, the music history, and all the theory that we need to know for our exams.Teacher 1: And then, of course, we have excellent connections, through our long history of preparing students for university, to some of the top universities in the UK, and, increasingly, worldwide as well.Teacher 2: In terms of more formal feedback that supports them, we regularly assess their progress and offer them some targets to help them focus on things that they can improve in their work. Multicultural Britain. This is Southall Broadway in West London. This area has one of the largest Asian populations in London.
The United Kingdom is an ethnically diverse country with many different communities that reflects the multicultural nature of Britain. Many British people’s families originally come from overseas. Over the centuries, people from around the world have come to live here. The first significant wave of immigrants arrived by ship from Jamaica in 1948. In the 1950s and 60s, Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani families made Britain their home. This cultural variety makes Britain a vibrant place to be, but it’s not without its problems. Sunny Grewel and his father Avinda live in Southall. Nick: Avinda, what was life like when you first came here? Heritage tourism. In Victorian times, Britain was famous for producing things; it was known as ‘the workshop of the world’.
I’m travelling to York to find out how this industrial past is still important for a newer industry: tourism. Before planes, trains and cars, this was one of the best ways to travel. Rivers and canals played a very important role during the Industrial Revolution. Barges like this were the lorries of their day, transporting coal to the factories and finished products around the country. Now they’re used for leisure and many canals have become a focus for cafes, restaurants and art galleries. Amandeep: Thank you for the lift. Bargee: Thank you. Amandeep: Steam trains replaced the canal boats and became great symbols of Britain’s industrial past. There is a huge collection of them here at the National Railway Museum. The museum has its own workshed where engineers restore these incredible machines to their former glory.
Amandeep: Chris, how much work goes into restoring these trains?