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Watch the video and put the following facts in the order of appearance in the track:

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?

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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’.

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