LA12 PROJECT A
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Reading : Worship at the Da Vinci altar
Vocabulary : Anyone / No one / Someone
Deductions
Uncountable nouns
Grammar : Present Simple / Present Be + -ing
Past Simple / Past Simple Be + -ing
Listening : Giving directions
Video : Another tourist destination
Writing : What about religion ?

WORSHIP AT THE DA VINCI ALTAR
Extract from The Times, August 2, 2005
By the time the No. 15 bus reaches the end of Princes Street it's packed.
There's Yolanda from Texas, Giuseppe from Italy, Pilar from Madrid, Australians, Israelis,
Irish, Russians, Japanese and gawky youths who look like they're into Tolkien. We're all here for one thing. Giuseppe pulls it out of his backpack. "The book," he whispers, half conspiratorially. It's well thumbed. There are feverish scribbles inside. And bookmarks. These people take The Da Vinci Code very seriously.
Most tourists in Edinburgh's busiest month are here for the festival and the tartan. This lot, though, are after the Holy Grail. The Da Vinci Code effect has been felt in every place Dan Brown mentions in his 17 million-selling pot-boiler. London's Temple Church puts on weekly Da Vinci Code events for soaring numbers of visitors. Even the Louvre has noticed a blip in its figures. But Edinburgh is emerging as Britain's Da Vinci Code capital. And it's all down to a little chapel on the edge of town.
The novel, in case you've been in a bunker for two years, is about the search for the Grail.
Harvard professor Robert Langdon and sexy French code breaker Sophie Neveu follow a trail of clues from a murdered Louvre curator, via secret religious societies, albino monks, and a centuries-old conspiracy to hide the evidence that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, with whom he had children, leaving a bloodline written out of history that exists to this day.
It reaches its denouement at Rosslyn Chapel, the