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Worksheet 2
Fill in the gaps while listening to film 1.
It’s not __________________ (1) to establish the impact of clocks on __________________ (2). The role of
glass is more __________________ (3).
“Glass has an extraordinary __________________ (4) of properties. It’s almost completely inert, so you can
use it stoked up, it’s very __________________ (5), if you make it properly, so you can see what you’ve got
inside. And it’s __________________ (6), you can turn it into a very large number of different
__________________ (7). And because of its effects on light, you can use it to set light on things,
__________________(8) them, bring them closer or further away, correct__________________ (9). And it’s
impossible to imagine, for example, modern sciences without glass, without __________________ (10) and
microscopes, without thermometers and__________________ (11). It’s impossible to imagine a huge range
of industries, especially __________________ (12) technologies without glass. Now, that’s almost a
__________________ (13) combination of properties. And to think about how the __________________ (14)
world’s produced, and how we get there, I think it’s very important to look at who was able to make glass
and why.”
Glass making was an __________________ (15) craft, known to the Phoenicians, Egyptians, and the
Romans. By the 15 th century, the best glassmakers came from __________________ (16). Alan Macfarlane
went to the island of __________________ (17), where some of the finest craftsmen developed their skills.
“The __________________ (18), as we all know, make wonderful wine, and unlike __________________
(19), this can be served up in glass. So they began to __________________ (20) that if you made this
crystalline, clear, _________________________ (21) you would get the goal of Athens: of beauty to the eye
and beauty to the stomach, and so they began to make more and more beautiful
_______________________ (22). And of course this affected the __________________ (23) which got better
and better.”
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