London's *as *so big *that *as it hasn't got a centre: it's made *of *by forty or fifty small towns and *each *every of these areas *are *is different.

Each area's got its own shops and pubs and cinemas.

The *oldest *older part of London is the City of London.

There you can *look *see St.Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.

There was a big fire *at *in London in 1666, and after the fire the *whole *all city was *build *built again.

But a lot of the buildings that you see there today *have *were built in the Nineteenth Century.

Very *little *few people live in the City: *nearly *near all the buildings are offices.

The most famous area of London is Westminster, where the Houses of Parliament are.

A lot of politicians *are living *live there, so that they *could *can be *near *nearly Parliament, and all the big government offices are there, in a road called Whitehall.

The big theatres and cinemas are *at *in the West End of London, the area near Piccadilly Circus.

Also in the West End *are the *are Oxford Street, where you can *to find *find the big department stores, and Charing Cross Road, a road full of shops that *sell *are selling old and new books.

Behind *of the *the theatres in Shaftesbury Avenue is Soho.

In this area, there are restaurants that *serve *are serving food from *all *every country in the world.

But be *careful *carefully in Soho: there are also a lot of strange night clubs!

The Port of London is in the area *east *east of the City.

This is the East End of London.

The people who *live *are living there are nearly all working-class people, and they're called Cockneys.

They *talk *speak English with an accent; and it's quite difficult *for *to understand them.

*But *Although London's very big, it's got several large parks where Londoners can go *for *to get away from cars and houses.

The *more *most famous ones are Hyde Park, Regent's Park and Hampstead Heath.

Kensington and Hampstead, two of the nices areas, are *nearly *near parks.

In Kensington, there are long streets of *tall, white *tall and white houses.

In Hampstead, there are little old houses and trees and gardens: it's like *as the *the country.

*Another *Other interesting part of London is Chelsea, *next to *next the river, where painters like *to live *live.

Sometimes an area's well-known *because *so that people of one nationality *live *lives there.

The Irish live in Camden Town and Hammersmith; West Indians live in Brixton; Australians live in Earls Court.

But in Notting Hill you can find people of *all *every nationality... and a lot of young people, *either *too.

Every road in London *is *has got a postal code, which tells *you *to you what part of London *it's *is it in.

This helps postmen and taxi-drivers to *found *find addresses.

The postal code *from *for Westminster's W.C.1. (West Centre 1).

*For *From Hampstead, it's N.W.3. (North-West 3), for Kensington, it's W.8. (West 8) and for Chelsea, it's S.W.3 (South-West 3).

Remember *that *than there are probably twenty Church Streets in London; so, if *you'll *you stay in a Church Street, don't *forget *to forget the postal code!