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BBC Learning English

Video Words in the News

25 September 2 13

Lahore Walled City

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Transcript:

The historic Walled City in Lahore, Pakistan, is a maze of narrow streets, busy

bazaars and unplanned tenements.

But now the area is receiving a makeover.

Underground, sewage pipes and electricity cables are being laid; while at street

level, wooden doors and terracotta tiles are making a comeback.

The authorities hope all this will make the area more attractive to tourists.

Vocabulary: 

mazean place in which you can easily get lost because there are many similar streets or

paths 

tenements

large buildings divided into apartments, usually in a poor area of the city 

a makeover

a set of changes intended to make a person or place more attractive 

sewage pipes

tubes through which waste water and human waste is carried away from houses and

buildings

terracotta

hard, baked clay; often red/brown in colour 

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Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from

news reports.

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence

correctly.

maze / tenements / makeover / sewage pipes / terracotta

1.  The cholera epidemic began in Haiti in 2010 near a camp for UN soldiers,

where there were leaking ________. Some human waste was also dumped

near a river outside the camp.

2.  The entrance to Hillfield Gardens in London Road has had a ________ as

part of a Gloucester City Council scheme to renovate structures in local

parks.

3.  Dhakki is a ________ of narrow streets and alleyways, winding up and

around a hill that flanks Peshawar's oldest and most famous street, Qissa

Khwani - the street of the storytellers.

4.  It is difficult to visualise, but until the nineteenth century much of the site

now occupied by Parliament Square was a labyrinth of medieval alleys and

lanes crammed with shops, slums, taverns and _________ that harboured

Westminster's notorious thieves and vagabonds.

5.  Thomas Hardy even referred to Reading as "Aldbrickham", the old brick

town, in his novel Jude the Obscure.

Most of the town's Georgian and Victorian buildings are built of locally-

produced brick, tile and ________.

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Answers: 

1.  The cholera epidemic began in Haiti in 2010 near a camp for UN soldiers, where

there were leaking sewage pipes. Some human waste was also dumped near a

river outside the camp.

Source: Haiti cholera victims threaten to sue the UN

http://bbc.in/1bD3ZKG 

2.  The entrance to Hillfield Gardens in London Road has had a makeover as part of

a Gloucester City Council scheme to renovate structures in local parks.

Source: Hillfield Gardens gates in Gloucester restored

http://bbc.in/1fxCNgj 

3.  Dhakki is a maze of narrow streets and alleyways, winding up and around a hill

that flanks Peshawar's oldest and most famous street, Qissa Khwani - the street

of the storytellers.

Source: Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan, Dilip Kumar and the Peshawar club

http://bbc.in/1akzDsk 

4.  It is difficult to visualise, but until the nineteenth century much of the site now

occupied by Parliament Square was a labyrinth of medieval alleys and lanes

crammed with shops, slums, taverns and tenements that harboured

Westminster's notorious thieves and vagabonds.

Source: The hidden history of Westminster

http://bbc.in/15oPKBP 

5.  Thomas Hardy even referred to Reading as "Aldbrickham", the old brick town, inhis novel Jude the Obscure.

Most of the town's Georgian and Victorian buildings are built of locally-produced

brick, tile and terracotta.

Source: Reading's chalk mines leave legacy for home owners

http://bbc.in/18S9V1c