I. Watch the video and answer the questions. Then check your answers in "comments".
1. How many people use the London Underground every day?
2. What has happened from the early days of construction?
3. How has the tube disturbed thousands of people's souls?
4. How is the underground different once it shuts for the night?
5. What happened in the summer of 2000? Tell the story.
6. What do they say about Bank Station?
7. Complete Andy's story (one word in each gap- complete the last sentence).
Andy's story took place in _______________ during a _______________ _______________. He _______________ _________________
______________ on the door of a lift he had just checked and was sure it was empty. He carried on ignoring it.
Then he went to the switch room and he _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ and just left on the emergency lights. He started to walk through the ticket hall. As he was crossing, all of a sudden _______________ _____________ slammed. He wouldn’t even _______________ _______________ . There was no wind, no nothing. It scared the life out of him. It was…
8. Who were Larry and Bob?
9. What happened to them in Kennington Loop? Why do they think that happened?
10. What's special about their story?
II. Read about some of London Underground ghosts.
III. Have a look at some funny rules about the London Underground.
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1. Over three million people make their way into the underground tunnels and passageways.
2. There have been thousands of accidental deaths and suicides.
3. These accidents and the graves, cemeteries, church crypts...that the tube construction has disrupted over the years.
4. The crowds would be gone, replaced by silent, empty and lonely stations and passageways.
5. In the summer of 2000 the line controller (24 hours a day the CCTV from every station in London is monitored by a line controller based on a separate location) noticed a man standing in a platform at Liverpool Station in Central London. It was very unusual as it was 2 a.m. and the station was closed. Therefore, they phoned Stephen, who was the station supervisor with 33 years of experience who was on shift that night.
Stephen was told there was somebody wearing white overalls staying in the entrance to the Eastbound Tunnel. He went to investigate but he didn't see anybody there. The line controller couldn't believe it because they could see the man standing next to him. He went back but again he didn't see anybody. The line controller told him to forget about it, but when he was leaving the platform he saw a white pair of paper overalls on a bench.
6. It's one of the oldest stations, it's in the heart of London's financial district.
7. 1982, night shift, heard a knock, switched off the lights, that door, look back, the last time he was working on that side of the station.
8. Larry was a guard and Bob was a driver in the Northern Line. Together they have 50 years of experience on the tube.
9. One day they were in Kennington Loop and they heard the interconnecting car doors going (it's a unique distinctive noise). They went to the next car expecting to see somebody there, but there was nobody. They thought it was very strange.
The story goes that some passenger was killed in the loop when he was trying to board the train.
10. Larry and Bob don't know each other and they are talking about two different incidents.
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