Open World p 31.Kevin Mccloud's Grand Tour: Rome. Listening

Min 33
Fill in the gaps with a word or phrase.

1. Rome is designed to impress from the minute you _________________.
2. From the square you can see ___________________ the heart of Rome.
3. Pope Sixtus V turned Rome from a deserted village ________________ of the modern world.
4. The layout of the streets of Rome reminds us of the ________________ of New York and the boulevards of Paris.
5. In the Great Fire of London 13.000 buildings ______________________.
6. Christopher Wren’s singular vision of London was prevented from being realised by a ____________ parliament and London’s complicated property Laws.
7. After the Great Fire, London’s streets ________________ and its wooden houses re-erected in stone.
8. In the Renaissance people thought that The Pantheon was not built by human beings, but by _________________.
9. Nine metres is the height of a ____________________ building.
10. Wren fought hard to have a dome and not a medieval ____________ on the roof of St. Paul’s.

KEY:

1. set eyes on it 




2. right down into



3. into the envy



4. grid pattern



5. caught fire



6. stubborn



7. were widened



8. demons



9. three-storey



10. spire
 

Vocabulary:

Rummage: to move things around carelessly while searching for sth:
She was rummaging around in her bag for her keys.

 I rummaged through the contents of the box until I found the book I wanted.

“Hurgar, rebuscar”.

Potentate: a ruler who has a lot of power, especially when this is not restricted by a parliament, etc.

“Soberano absoluto”

draw breath (BrE) (US draw a breath): 1. to stop doing sth and rest: e.g. She talks all the time and hardly stops to draw breath.

2. (literary) to live; to be alive: e.g. He was as kind a man as ever drew breath.