St Pancras railway station – step 2 – VB
The article mentions a cruck barn – a barn which has curved timbers which extend to the ground, typical in mediaeval buildings. This one, below, is a renovated barn in the Peak District, and shows the curved timbers.
The link to the article is below the vocabulary quiz!
1. [Match]
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(A music / theatre buff – someone who is enthusiastic about and / or knows a great deal about music / the theatre
The crypt rhymes with sipped / ripped
The civil engineer responsible for the building of St Pancras, William Barlow, was highly experienced in the field of cathedral architecture, and there are influences of this in the station building.
bound for Glasgow / Glasgow-bound = going towards Glasgow
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Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. actor (correct)
- 2. beer made in a traditional way in casks with a traditional taste of genuine beer (correct)
- 3. a person who knows what good food and drink really taste like, a connoisseur of good food and / or drink (correct)
- 4. person who is very interested in and knowledgeable about a particular subject or field (correct)
- 5. make you feel ashamed on seeing someone else surpassing you, doing sth particularly well that you should / could have done well too, but haven’t (yet) (correct)
- 6. wound / twisted together (correct)
- 7. when something such as a building is destroyed (correct)
- 8. crypt – ie and underground room – eg chapel or burial place – of a church (correct)
- 9. work hard (correct)
- 10. going towards (correct)
- 11. move very fast, especially in what seems a dangerous way (correct)
- 12. move / dig underground, often used of animals (correct)