Page 11 - English for Construction 1

Reading 4 Read his text and omplete charts A and B.
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The construction industry in the UK projects like roads, bridges and tunnels.
consists of four different sectors. The The commercial sector is for things like
residential sector deals with houses and schools, hospitals and office blocks. The
apartments. The industrial sector deals client pays for the project and hires general
with big projects like factories and power contractors to deal with subcontractors,
plants. The infrastructure sector is for equipment and materials.

industry i n
the U K

industrial
(factories, (roads, (schools,
power plants) bridges, hospitals,
tunnels) office blocks)
subcontractor subcontractor subcontractor subcontractor

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V o c a b u l a r y 5 Work n pairs. Take urns o draw different types of construction nd say what
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6 Complete these sentences with the erbs in the box.
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are consists of deal with hires pays for
1 The general contractor subcontractors.
2 General contractors subcontractors, equipment and materials.
3 The eam a site manager, three roofers and a plumber.
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4 Roads, bridges and unnels infrastructure sector projects.
5 The client the project.
L a n g u a g e

We add -s, -es, or -/es to make a noun plural. apartment -»apartments
box • boxes
factory > factories

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Read he text n 4 again and nderline the plurals.
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S p e a k i n g 8 Work in groups. Think bout he construction ndustry n our area. List
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examples of he following.
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1 clients 5 infrastructure sector projects
2 general contractors 6 commercial sector projects
3 subcontractors 7 industrial sector projects
4 residential sector projects
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