Foscari - Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Informatica e Statistica

121.2mm
5pm Friday
48 hours
Adrian Saul
the Victorians
four times
Nicola Savage
Now, read the text again, and use the information above to complete the sentences below.
1. _____________ built the sewers in London.
2. The rain stopped in Oxfordshire at _____________.
3. _____________ were killed in floods last month in the north of England.
4. _____________ is a professor at Sheffield University.
5. Farm animals may die if they can’t drink water for _____________.
6. _____________ of rain fell in five hours in Brize Norton.
7. _____________ gave some information from Thames Water.
8. In South Yorkshire, on _____________, it rained as much in one day as it usually rains in a month.
9. Flood water was _____________ deep in some towns in the south.
10. There are _____________ as many people living in London now as when the London sewers were
built.
Vocabulary development
Find words in the text that mean the following. Paragraph numbers are given to help you.
1. ____________ – kept somewhere, like a prisoner (para 3)
2. ____________ – to think and plan how to build something (para 5)
3. ____________ – succeed in working with (para 5)
4. ____________ – special pieces of soft material for babies to wear because they can’t use the toilet
(para 6)
5. ____________ – covering (the ground) with hard material like concrete or bricks (para 8)
6. ____________ – to wash away with a lot of water (para 8)
Prepositions
Choose prepositions from the box to go with the words below.
on over like for in
1. ______ the weekend
2. ______ the south
3. ______ June 25
4. raining ______ weeks
5. plan ______ possible dangers
6. Especially ______ London
7. designed ______
8. things ______ babies’ nappies
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