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BBC Learning English
Words in the News
4 April 2012
Standing1 tall
Transcript:
A bird's eye view of London.
The final piece of steel in a building nicknamed the Shard2 has been put in place.
When completed, it will be the European Union's tallest skyscraper3.
But the work isn't for the faint-hearted. The structure reaches 310 metres.
With 87 storeys, the building will house residences, offices, a hotel and viewing
gallery.
Vocabulary:
a bird's eye view
a view from a high place from which you can see a vast area
nicknamed
a name used informally instead of a real name
faint-hearted
timid, not confident
storeys
floors
(to) house (verb)
to accommodate
Exercise:
Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from
BBC news reports.
Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence
correctly.
a bird's eye view / nicknamed / faint-hearted / storeys / (to) house
(verb)
1. Tickling4 a gorilla5 is not for the ______________. But keeper Phil Ridges6 is not
worried at getting into the enclosure with Emmie at Port Lympne Wild Animal
Park in Kent.
2. Spain's relatively7 new army museum is ________ in the spectacular Alcazar in
Toledo. Once a fortress8, it was largely destroyed in a famous siege during the
Spanish Civil War, before being rebuilt by Franco.
3. A ewe thought to have been a contender for the title of world's oldest sheep
has died after falling off a cliff. An ear tag on the blackface ewe, _________
Methuselina, showed that it was 25 years and 11 months old.
4. Visitors will be guided through nine exhibitions, spread over four _______,
charting the history of the Titanic9 from its construction in the nearby Harland &
Wolff shipyard to its final resting place at the bottom of the Atlantic.
5. A large platform has been carved out of the side of the hill above the mine
that will offer ____________ of the rescue operations.
Answers:
1. Tickling a gorilla is not for the faint-hearted. But keeper Phil Ridges is not
worried at getting into the enclosure with Emmie at Port Lympne Wild Animal
Park in Kent.
Source: Scientists tickle10 animals to find laughter clues
2. Spain's relatively new army museum is housed in the spectacular Alcazar in
Toledo. Once a fortress, it was largely destroyed in a famous siege during the
Spanish Civil War, before being rebuilt by Franco.
Source: The Spanish link in cracking the Enigma11 code
3. A ewe thought to have been a contender for the title of world's oldest sheep
has died after falling off a cliff. An ear tag on the blackface ewe, nicknamed
Methuselina, showed that it was 25 years and 11 months old.
Source: 'Oldest sheep' in the world dies on Lewis in Western Isles12
4. Visitors will be guided through nine exhibitions, spread over four storeys,
charting the history of the Titanic from its construction in the nearby Harland &
Wolff shipyard to its final resting place at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Source: New Titanic Belfast complex opens
5. A large platform has been carved out of the side of the hill above the mine
that will offer a bird's eye view of the rescue operations.
Source: World media gear up for Chilean mine rescue
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