After-Reading

a production, a brick, a process, an ingredient, a development, i centimeter, an inch, a meter, a tree, a demand, a solution, i problem.

2. Write down all the numerals from the text in letters.

3. Put "was" or "were" in.

• The production of brick industrialized in the 19th century.

• These mass-produced by a mechanical extrusion process in which clay squeezed by "pressed" through a rectangular die as a continuous column and sliced to size by a wire cutter.

• There also a proliferation of elaborately shaped and stamped masonry units.

• Periodically fired beehive kilns continued used, but the continuous-tunnel kiln, through which bricks moved slowly on a conveyor belt, had appeared by the end of the century.

• Timber technology underwent rapid development in the 19th century in North America.

• There large forests of softwood fir and pine trees that could be harvested and processed by industrial methods.

• There a great demand for small buildings of all types as the North American continent settled, and the light timber frame provided a quick, flexible, and inexpensive solution to this problem.

• In the balloon frame system, traditional heavy timbers and complex joinery abandoned.

• The building walls framed with 5x 10-centimetre.

• Lateral stability achieved by light diagonal braces let into the studs or, more commonly, by two-centimeter thick diagonal boards applied to all exterior walls and to floor and roof lists creating a rigid, light box.

4. Write all the complex sentences from the text and translate them.