WHILE-LISTENING. Watch the video-track a part by part and answer the following questions:

Watch the video-track a part by part and answer the following questions:

00:00 – 00:19

5. When did people begin thinking of travelling from Wales to Ireland?

6. What task was Tomas Telford given?

7. How old was Tomas Telford?

00:20 – 00:34

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

For the (1) __________ he arrived at man eye, Telford had a (2) __________ as one of the finest (3) __________ engineers in (4) __________, be given this huge (5) __________ to (6) __________ the main coaching route between Britain and (7) __________.

00:35 – 01:00

9. What type of bridge was originally planned to be built?

10. Why did Telford give up the idea of an arch bridge?

01:01 – 02:09

11. What was used to travel across river in ancient times?

12. What are the people shown in the track?

13. What do they want to do?

02:10 – 02:56

14. What process is shown in this part?

15. What is the aim of towers?

16. What should the bridge towers be made of?

03:05 – 03:48

17. How long is the tunnel that was blasted in order to anchor chains of the bridge?

18. What is found at the end of the tunnel?

19. How long are the bolts that join the chains with the frame?

03:49 - end

20. What did the new bridge help to do?

21. How long is the deck of the bridge?

22. How old is the bridge?

23. What is the capacity of the bridge?

POST-LISTENING

24. Summarize the information of the track and be ready to tell about the bridge to your partner.

25. Make a small text about the process of construction of a suspension bridge.

THE CLIFFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE 1

(05:00)