Drunk on Tea

As a lot of you may know, when you say tea, you say England. In most countries, people might drink tea at breakfast, or at most twice a day, because in most countries tea is a very disappointing adventure: a teabag soaking in a large mug of hot water. But in England tea is not only a wonderful drink; it’s a national habit. We drink tea 24/7. It can also be a meal. With it, you can serve cakes, biscuits or sandwiches on posh little china plates. Why do the English drink so much tea? Well no one knows. Perhaps because of the cold weather, or maybe it was a fashion a long time ago, it could be anything !!! The first man who introduced tea to England was Earl Grey. He had discovered it while walking through India .Then a man named Thomas Twining set up as a tea merchant in the London Strand in 1706. Twining has traded since from the same address, an amazing and unique world record.

Victoria

Carnaby Street

Carnaby Street is a pedestrian shopping street in London, within the Soho district, near Oxford Street, just to the east of Regent Street. This small village used to be a power station but, during the 1960s, more and more shops settled on Carnaby Street. It soon became famous for it’s groovy, quirky and hippie stores. Bands such as The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones came to work, shop, and socialize in this area and so, from then on, Carnaby Street became one of London's coolest destinations.
It now includes twelve pedestrian streets and 168 fashion boutiques like:
American Apparel
David & Goliath
Office
Vans…

Maïa

Heathrow airport

Heathrow is the largest and most occupied airport in the United Kingdom. It is the world’s thirst busiest airport for passenger traffic. It is located at 22 kilometres of central London.
The site covers 12.14 square kilometres; it is composed of 5terminals (the fifth was opened in 2008). There capacity is of 90million passenger a year.

France

Baleine de la Tamise

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleine_de_la_Tamise

Alexia

Books

English Language Books are widely renowned as some of the best books in the world.
Throughout the year there are many book contests, some being aired on TV programmes such as Richard and Judy, or Blue Peter: a widely watched children-teenagers programme. However a lot of famous children’s series are written in other languages such as German. Harry Potter, The Inheritance series ( Eragon, Eldest, Bresingr ), and The Twilight Series (though I may not like it) are among some of the world famous series.

Henri

Crime in London

Studies have revaled that knife crime has risen from 25,00 to 65,00 in just 2 years meaning that there were 175 knife robberies in England and Wales in just one day. It is said that 10% of boys aged 11 and 12 carrie wepons, 8 % of then attack, hurt and even kill other youths. 24% of sixteen year olds carrie wepons and 16% of then usedf their deadly wepons. Youths carrie guns and knifes to either protect themselves or just to be cool.Knife crime has doubled in two years.Gun crime has unfortunatly risen up to 90%. Gun crime in London is increasing so much that police are scared not to cope anymore.

The fire arm units (police) deal with 20 up to 30 incidents a day.Their are many gangs in London, especially East London(22), North London(13), South and South west London(12). Rival gangs kill eachother, for many reasons(territory...).The metropolitain police are doing their best to end all of this, but they need our help. The mair of London has asked celebrities to talk to children and try to convince them to stop, bins are also painted with a knife drawn of it and it says "save a life, bin that knife".

Sophia & Helena

Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus is a famous road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster, built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly. In this context a circus, from the Latin word meaning a circle, is a circular open space at a street junction.
It now links directly to the theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue as well as the Haymarket, Coventry Street (onwards to Leicester Square), and Glasshouse Street. The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in the heart of the West End. Its status as a major traffic-intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meetingplace and a tourist attraction in its own right.The Circus is particularly known for its video display and neon signs mounted on the corner building on the northern side, as well as the Shaftesbury memorial fountain and statue of an archer popularly known as Eros (sometimes called The Angel of Christian Charity, but intended to be Anteros). It is surrounded by several noted buildings, including the London Pavilion and Criterion Theatre. Directly underneath the plaza is Piccadilly Circus London Underground station.

Morgane