The channel tunnel (1)
(01:12)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is a tunnel?
2. Why do people build tunnels?
3. What special equipment is used to build tunnels?
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video and answer the following questions:
4. What does the Channel Tunnel connect?
5. When did the project start?
6. How long did the construction last?
7. How much does the project cost?
8. How many workers were employed for the project?
9. When was the Tunnel opened?
10. What is its length?
11. How long is the journey through the Tunnel by car?
POST-LISTENING
12. Make the summary of the video-track.
13. Find information about any other tunnel to answer the same questions.
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL (2)
(04:41)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What information do you remember about the Channel Tunnel?
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video, read the inscriptions and find the answers to the following questions:
2. Which places (towns) in Britain and France exactly does the Tunnel connect?
3. Which Tunnel is the longest in the world?
4. When did the idea of a construction appear first?
5. What was Albert Mathieu’s plan?
6. What organizations were involved into the construction?
7. What capacity do the terminals have?
8. What should be taken into account by engineers before starting a construction of a tunnel under a channel?
POST-LISTENING
9. Find information about any other tunnel and make a report to the class about it.
T B M
(00:39)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What does the abbreviation ‘TBM’ stand for?
2. What is TBM?
3. Who can operate TBM?
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video and answer the following questions:
4. How long is the TBM shown in the track?
5. Which two things (objects) is this TBM compared to?
6. How big is TBM shown in the track?
7. How heavy is it?
8. What does this TBM do?
POST-LISTENING
9. Watch the video without audio and make your own comments.
TUNNEL BORING MACHINE
(04:00)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is the main purpose of TBM? (to bore the ground)
2. Do you know the following words? Study the meaning of the words:
“to press”, “to rotate”, “pressure”, “to chip”, “conveyer belt”, “protective roof”, “arch”, “football pitch”.
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video and put the following facts in the order of appearance in the track:
3.
| A broken rock falls into a bucket wheel. | |
| The automotive device presses the rock. | |
| Vertical and horizontal position of a cutting head is constantly controlled. | |
| While boring goes on, work on construction of a protective roof is carried on. | |
| A complete ring of arch segments is transported to its final position. | |
| The cutting head rotates under a pressure of 27 tons. | |
| This TBM was specially developed for the hard rock. | |
| A broken rock is transferred onto a conveyer belt behind the cutting head. | |
| Steel arch segments are put under the protective roof. | |
| Each cutter chips the rock away. |
Watch the track again and answer the following questions:
4. How many cutters does the cutting head have?
5. What distance can TBM drive a day?
6. What is TBM compared to?
7. How long is the TBM shown in the track?
8. What is the length of the TBM compared to?
POST-LISTENING
9. Summarize everything you know about TBMs.
A DAM - THE WONDER OF THE WORLD
(01:13)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is a dam?
2. What is the common use of a dam?
3. Do you think that dams are interesting for tourists to visit? Why?
4. Study the meaning of the word ‘sundial’:
‘Sundial’ = a device used outdoors, especially in the past, for telling the time
when the sun is shining.
Do you believe that a dam can be a sundial?
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video and answer the following questions:
5. What country is this dam situated in?
6. Why is the dam considered to be an interesting place to visit?
7. How is the time shown?
8. Which colour is used for a.m. hours; which is for p.m. hours?
9. What time range can be seen on the dam?
10. What is the aim of this ambitious project?
POST-LISTENING
11. Make up your own comments on what you have just seen. Would you like to visit the place? Why?
UC DAVIS NEWSWATCH. DAMS
(01:54)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is a dam?
2. What is the common use of a dam?
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video and answer the following questions:
3. Where is the dam situated?
4. What does this dam provide?
5. Who and what is the speaker?
6. Is he for or against new dams? Why?
POST-LISTENING
7. Which of the above mentioned aims of a dam is the most important one? Why?
CHINAS YANGTZE DAM
(03:03)
PRE-LISTENING
1. Where do people construct dams?
2. What for is this usually done?
3. What is the common use of a dam?
4. What problems may a construction of a dam provide?
5. Do you know the following words? Study the meaning of the words: “displacement’, ‘debate’, ‘income’.
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video and answer the following questions:
00:00 – 00:33
6. Where is this picturesque place situated?
7. What kind of construction is shown in the track?
8. How far are these two places from each other?
9. What is the problem of the construction?
00:34 – 00:51
10. Why is the Chinese family shown in the track?
11. How big is the family?
12. How big is their place of living at the moment?
00:52 – 01:00
13. What does Ma Guoming think about the project?
01:01 - 01:26
14. How many dams are going to be built along the river?
01:27 – 01:57
15. Is compensation given quickly to the people?
16. How much is the compensation given?
17. How many residents were moved from their places of living?
02:11 – 02:27
18. Complete the following phrase: “No land means no …… and that …… an uncertain ……“
POST-LISTENING
19. Comment on the problem discussed in the track.
CANAL MIRAFLORES
(01:20)
PRE-LISTENING
1. What is a canal?
2. Which famous canals do you remember?
3. Do you know the following words? Study the meaning of the following words:
“marvel” = something that is wonderful or that surprises you.
“lock” = a part of a canal where the level of water changes. Locks have gates at each end and are used to allow boats to move to a higher or lower level.
“to appreciate” = to enjoy something or to understand the value of something.
WHILE-LISTENING
Watch the video and answer the following questions:
4. What is the name of the Canal? Complete the heading.
5. What part of the world is the Canal situated in?
6. How long is the Canal?
7. What oceans are mentioned in the track? Why?
8. What is the height that the ships are raised?
9. Where exactly is the Miraflores Lock situated?
10. What is special about this Lock?
11. Who was this film made by?
POST-LISTENING
12. Would you like to appreciate the process of ship passing through the lock?