Flash_on_English_for_Construction

Schools

3 () 10 Listen and complete the text with the missing

Schools have a very special importance in everyone's

(1) and consequently architects should th ink C2'-::;c_

and sensitively when (2) them. During the 19tr

century the first to understand the economic importance 0'

universal (3) were the British and th e Prussians.

whose schools were disciplinarian places that could be built q~':-::

cheaply. In Great Britain, as well as in France and Germany, we

can still see examples of these great, late nineteenth-century, fOJr-s:e:r-::.

banked along central ..:.

School building gradua! :-;=-:~?_ ~

A great number of net, s.:-::' "

and practices shifted fror S:':-5 :_

learning and liberal egalit2: '::;-: r:'?,=

design changed too. New se-c.: :: :::: :::...?-__ ~

w ith multi valent spaces. t.,lo'c '2:=---

buildings where the environrs-: s -~:,:;= .=.

and where solutions are founc : : --:=-::l :C. _

healt h, (7) and fir2-: 2 .. ,:':- C'=-

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In th e future, architects will ha,e ::::'S.:'~:'':' ~~=:s:: -:-:c::::-·

Airports

aspects, such as creating increas -5:. T:'-: :

stimulating buildings, with spaces s_:-, :::: ;

libraries and (8) ___ _

4 Match these words with their definitions.

1 runway

2 control tower

3 hangar

4 apron

5 air terminal

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a large building where planes are kept, built, or repaired

a place at an airport where planes wait or turn round

a long piece of ground with a smooth hard surface on which airC'2~ :::;

a large building at an airport where passengers arrive and leave

a building at an airport from which air traffic is watched and directed

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5 Read the text and check your answers to exercise 4.

An airport is a place where aircraft take off and land. In smaller airports there is usually a single runway,

shorter than 1000 metres and made of gravel, grass or dirt, whereas larger airports usually have paved

runways of about 2 km or even longer. Airports also include control towers (if the air traffic is high, air traffic

is controlled by radio from there), hangars (where aircraft are stored and maintained), aprons (parking areas

away from terminals) and air terminals (departure and arrival buildings).

In terminals passengers can get flight informa"--

buy tickets, clear security control, claim their ,-,5.5::;5:::

and board aircraft through waiting areas. :0::;':-5:

gates and ramps (where aircraft ::J2r• --:::: _ _ 2

terminal to board passengers).

Large airports usually have 2 -' :r::;=: -2:

base operator services. arc passenger faCtI:-Ge5 S_:-

as shops, restaurants =:--::'5:-::-:. s-::-.:~ '-::-::: :::;r

counters. custOf'lS 2-: .:-:--5:'::;::-~::;:=--.:~

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