TECHNICAL UNIVERISITY OF MACHALA

CIVIL ENGINEERING
CLASSWORK #2
Full name: JUAN CARLOS PONCE TACURI
Class: English IV-4A
Date: Monday, May 14th/2018.
Topic: Tunnels (technical terms)

TUNNEL BASICS
Activity 1. Read the text Tunnel Basics. Then order of emergence of the next civil works
throughout the history.

Highway tunnel boring machine railway aqueduct

1. Aqueduct 2.___railway______ 3. ____Highway____ 4._____TBM______

Activity 2. Label the types of tunnels.

underwater soft-ground rock

(a) Underwater tunnel ( b) Soft-gorund tunnel

 (c) Rock tunnel.

Activity 3. Illustrate the tools or techniques to build tunnels.

SOFT-GROUND TUNNEL ROCK TUNNEL UNDERWATER TUNNEL

__a) TUNNEL SHIELD b) SOFT-GORUND c) UNDERWATER

TUNNEL TUNNEL

Activity 4. Read the description of the forces acting on the tunnels and illustrate them in each of the
squares.

a) soft-ground b) rock tunnel c) Underwater

Tunnel

Water pushes on the

The heavy, wet Some sections of
ground pushes on all sides of the tunnel.
the rock are less
The tunnel's walls are
dense than other
sides of the tunnel. squeezed by the
sections. These loose
The tunnel’s walls are water.
chunks of rock push
squeezed by the
on the sides of the
ground.
tunnel.
Activity 5. Answer the teacher’s questions. (speaking)

a) What types of civil works can you build in soft-ground tunnels/ rock tunnels?

You can build ______________, ________________in soft-ground tunnels.

(civil works)

You can build ______________, _______________through mountains in rock tunnels.

(civil works)

b) What are the tools or techniques in soft-ground tunnels/ rock tunnels/ underwater tunnels?

In soft ground tunnels, civil engineers use ______________________ to build tunnels.

(tool/ technique)
In rock tunnels, civil engineers use ______________________to build tunnels.
(tool/ technique)
In underwater tunnels, civil engineers use ______________________to build tunnels.
(tool/ technique)