Reading Comprehension Exercise

Ex. 19. Say if it is true or false. Correct the wrong statements and quote the relevant information from the text.

1. A surveyor draws pictures to show what the house will look like when it is built.

2. The architect draws plans and indicates the size of the house, the shape of the rooms and where all the fittings must go in the house.

3. Without a surveyor’s plan the workmen would make all sorts of mistakes and waste a lot of time.

4. The building process takes place under the supervision of foremen and engineers.

5. The builder marks out the shape of the house on the site with stones and nails.

6. The workmen dig away the top-soil and cut trenches along the tapes.

7. A foundation is a platform of planks for the bricklayers to stand on.

8. The builder often looks at the plans to know where to build in the doors, win­dows and ventilators.

9. The carpenter does the rough woodwork of the house.

10. The wooden floor joists carry the upstairs floors and hold up the ceilings in the downstairs rooms.

11. At the plumber’s works machines plane wood smooth and cut it to the right size.

12. Doors, window frames and stairs come to the building site ready to be fixed in the houses.

13. The highest strong beam in the roof is called a raft­er.

14. The plumber’s work is to put glass in the window frames.

15. The plasterers make the ceilings and walls nice and smooth.