Writing and Speaking

6 Write questions about a building, tunnel, or dam. Use who, what,
when, where, and how. Make sure you know the answers!

For example

How old is it? Where is it?

7 Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions you wrote in
Exercise 6.

Get real

Find out about a major new engineering project. Where is it? What will it do? What problems do the engineers have to solve to build it?

Engineering

Bright spark

words in

Before you start

1 Write down, in your own
language, the type of energy
used to:

• provide light

• power an old-fashioned
clock

• heat buildings

• power a modern watch

• ride a bicycle

2 Compare your answers with
the rest of the class. What are
the English words for these
types of energy?