Give English equivalents of the following words and word combinations. Каменщик, конструкция, платить, платить дорожную пошлину, столкнуться, основа, фундамент, узкий, движение гуськом

Каменщик, конструкция, платить, платить дорожную пошлину, столкнуться, основа, фундамент, узкий, движение гуськом, платная дорога, нехватка, технология строительства дорог, низкая стоимость, железные дороги, моторные транспортные средства.

8. Discuss with the group the following topics: ü Using additional information, make up your own opinion and say whose system was more efficient: Telford’s or McAdam’s. ü What are the difficulties of road building nowadays?

1. Fill in the gaps using the words below:

traffic jams, network of roads, well-maintained, roadway, potholes, road-builders, route, maintain, lack, turnpikes.

We take for granted that all roads must be ¹_________. But in real life we have quite opposite situation. Unfortunately roads in our city have many ²_________. Another problem is ³_________. Sometimes it takes us plenty of time to travel the ⁴_________ which in fact takes 15 minutes. So, what should we do to make our ⁵_________ better? May be first of all it is necessary to provide a ⁶_________ of a good quality and ⁷_________ it efficiently to avoid cracks and potholes. We may also use ⁸_________ as an alternative. If there is no ⁹_________ of funding it will be easier to have good maintenance. And certainly ¹⁰_________ must be highly qualified.