Listening comprehension
Listen to the video about the Isles of Scilly, related to the article on pages 6-7 of
English Now
No 92. Then, drag and drop the missing words into the correct spaces in the transcript below.
special
Mediterranean
Britain
everything
chance
romantic
England
gardens
Caribbean
ruined
- Think of the
______
but being in
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at the same time.
- It’s just so varied. You can be on the north end, poking around a ruined 16th-century castle and walking through one of the last battlefields of the English Civil War, and 20 minutes later, you find yourself strolling through one of the great
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of Europe.
- This garden is special because there’s nothing like it in
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. All our plants come from
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climate zones. The garden started in 1834. A man called Augustus Smith came here and he built a garden around the site of this old
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priory. So, it had a nice
______
feel, with the old ruins, but also with the unique collection of plants. So, it made it something rather
______
.
- I’ve lived on Tresco for 34 years. I came here just by
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, and I couldn’t quiet believe where I’d landed up. For such a small island, I think it has an awful lot to offer. It’s very self-contained; it has
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that you need.
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