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Make as many word phrases with the words from the box below as you can. An example is given.



to dig dam passenger tunnel team vehicle opposite enormous under seabed canal between to build ridge

Example: to dig: to dig a tunnel, to dig a hole, etc.

Match the words from the box in ex.10 with their definitions below.

 

A passage under the ground.
To move earth and make a hole in the ground.
It means ‘very-very big’, ‘huge’.
A group of people who work together, or play a game together against another group.
It means ‘in a position on the other side of something’.
A person who is travelling in a car (bus, train, plane, etc.) but who is not driving it.
It means ‘the floor of the sea’, ‘the bottom’.
Something that transports people or things from place to place (cars, bicycles, lorries, buses).
It means ‘in the space in the middle of two things – people, places, objects, etc.
A long narrow piece of high land along the top of hills or mountains.
To make something by putting pieces, materials, etc., together.
It means ‘in a position that is below something’.
A wall built across a river to hold back the water.
A deep cut that is made through land and filled with water for boats or ships to travel along.

12. Fill in the gaps with one suitable word from the module:

1. Look at this dam! It’s ………. !!!
2. A new modern ……… was built across the river.
3. A train disappeared into a ……… .
4. TBMs are used to ……… tunnels.
5. Which ……… has won the building project?
6. There was a beautiful building on the ……… side of the street.
7. What kind of ……… is used to transport TBMs?
8. The train goes ……… this tunnel in 5 minutes.
9. The bridge is not very high, so tall ships can’t pass ……… it.
10. A lot of ……… usually travel in the train through the tunnel.

13. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Translate the idea, not a word for word:

1. The company has just finished building a new tunnel.
2. A new tunnel has just been designed by a group of young engineers.
3. Builders brought special equipment to dig the ground.
4. TBM is a special digging machine.
5. To build a tunnel builders dig the ground with the help of TBMs.
6. Builders need special equipment to dig tunnels.
7. TBM is an enormous machine.
8. Special enormous machines are used to dig tunnels.
9. It is important to work in a team.
10. This building was designed by a team of highly-skilled engineers.
11. These two buildings are located on opposite sides of the river.
12. Look! Our new Top Manager is sitting opposite the boss.
13. The Head of the Engineering Department was the first passenger on that train.
14. The first passenger train was designed many years ago.
15. Sometimes tunnels are built under the seabed.
16. Are you the owner of this vehicle?
17. What vehicles do you use to transport special equipment to a building site?
18. Tower Bridge goes across the River Thames in London.
19. The Millennium Bridge in Kazan goes over the Kazanka-river and joins the opposite sides of the city.
20. Building of dams is a very difficult but important process.
21. Safety is very important in the process of building tunnels, dams, etc.
22. Let me show you around the building site.
23. The ship went under the bridge.
24. The train goes through this tunnel in 7 minutes.






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