English B2 Episode 03 Travel and Adventure - Track 06

English B2 Episode 03 Travel and Adventure - Track 06

English B2 Episode 03 Travel and Adventure

Fill in the Blanks Exercise

  EPISODE 03: Real-Life Situations
  TRACK 6
 
  Welcome to the Forth Bridge, .
  You shouldn't with the Forth Road Bridge.
  The real, original Forth Bridge from Edinburgh to the north.
  It's worth as well, though, because of the of this bridge.
  The bridge was opened in 1890 but that .
  It took to build and about on it in very difficult conditions.
  Boats waited under the bridge to in the water but still while building the bridge and many more .
  The bridge is long and the railway runs above the waters of the Firth of Forth.
  When it was built, the bridge , which doesn't sound much, but is worth at today's prices.
  One reason they were when designing the bridge was because of the which happened in 1879, a few years before the Forth Bridge was built.
  The railway bridge over the Tay a train was travelling across it and were killed.
  The designer, Thomas Bouch, had already had a for the Forth Bridge accepted but, after the disaster, his and a new design by a was chosen instead.
  You may have heard the saying 'painting the Forth Bridge' to which never seems to end.
  That's because, in the early years of the bridge's existence, as soon as a team of painters had , the paint at the start .
  Fortunately, improvements to paint mean that it or more years.
  The last time the bridge was painted, it , although this did include first, the first time that , and repairing the metal underneath.
  Now, before we continue, ?

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