Ancient bridge building techniques

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PRE-LISTENING

1. What is a bridge?

2. Why do people build bridges?

3. When did people begin bridge building?

4. What were ancient bridges made from?

5. What type of bridges do you know?

6. Study the following words and phrases:

“to go on”, “practitioner”, “arch bridge”, “nail”, “to cover something with something”, “covering”, “to extend”, “landmark”.

WHILE-LISTENING

Watch the parts of the video-track and answer the following questions:

00:00 – 00:07

7. What is going on in Beijing?

8. What is being demonstrated?

00:08 – 00:19

9. Fill in the gaps in the following text with the words you hear:

The (1) __________ of various art forms are in the (2) __________ capital to (3) __________ the (4) __________. And (5) __________ let’s take a look at a (6) __________of bridge (7) __________.

00:20 – 01:18

10. What type of bridge is being constructed?

11. How much time is going to be spent for its construction?

12. What is special about this bridge?

13. When did this technology appear?

14. Where are ‘covered’ bridges popular and why?

15. Why do bridges need the covering?

16. What is the other use of ‘covered’ bridges?

01:19 – end

17. What did ‘covered’ bridges serve as in ancient times?

POST-LISTENING

18. Find information about any ancient bridge and present it to your class.

THE GREAT HISTORY OF TOWER BRIDGE

(02:05)

PRE-LISTENING

1. What is a bridge?

2. Why do people build bridges?

3. Where is the Tower Bridge situated?

4. Study the following words and phrases:

“contractor”, “jubilee”, “to celebrate”, “centenary”.