B1/ B2 English
Watch the video here below and try to answer the following questions:
-In which region would farming be impossible without the water from glaziers and high mountain springs?
-Why was the wooden acqueduct or bisse built?
– How much did it cost to renovate 7 km of waterway?
– What did the local people, who originally built it, risk?
– Why is it important to preserve these water channels?
– Where did the builders of the bisse sleep after their working days?
– In which position did the masons work?
– How many kilometres is the bisse service along the cliff faces in the Valais?
Look at the vocabulary and translate them into your language:
| rain starved | |
| glaciers | |
| mountain springs | |
| mason | |
| to release | |
| sluice gates | |
| to dangle from the cliff face | |
| climbing harness | |
| dwindling water supply | |
| of utmost importance |
The following exercise is about the conditional/mixed. Combine the two parts of the sentences.
MAKE PROPOSALS CONCERNING THE ANSWER!
| If the local people (1)……….. (2)……., | the bisse (1)…… (2)… needed. |
| If there (1)….. no water from the springs, | they (1)…….(2)….. been repaired. |
| Without the waterways | it (1)….. (2)…… conducted to the valley. |
| If the Canton (1)…….rain starved | farming (1) …..(2)…. impossible. |
| If the locals (1) …….. (2)……. the channels, | the masons (1)…..(2)…. had to work dangling. |
| If they (1) ……. 2)….. the bisse | farming (1)…….. (2) ….. impossible. |
| If there (1)……enough water | humidity (1)……. (2)….. kept. |
| If it (1)…… of utmost importance | families, they (1)…..(2)…done the job. |
| If the locals (1)….(2) …..help from their | the bisse(1)……(2)… repaired. |
| If they (1)….(2)….their lives, | the waterways (1)………exist. |
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