Unit Three: Four Walls

Video : Denmark Bridge

• Watch the video and answer the questions
• 1. what were the obstacles to joining Sweden to Denmark?
• 2. What solution did the architects come up with ?

• Watch the first part of the video and complete the table

1	Width of the Oresund strait
2	Weather in this region
3	Needs of Copenhagen
4	Needs of Malmo
5	What the bridge carries
6	Height above the sea
7	Height of support towers

• Watch the second part of the video then answer the questions
• 1. How did the architects know it would be dangerous to build a bridge close to the Danish shoreline?
• 2. What would the result of building a lower bridge have been ?
• 3. What two adjectives does the project director use to describe the tunnel solution ?
• 4. What was the problem with the
• part –bridge , part tunnel solution ?
• 5. How did the architects get around it ?

• Complete the summary using one word in each space .Then watch the video again to check
• The Oresund Bridge was built to connect Denmark and Sweden over the Oresund .......in the Baltic Sea . The idea was to merge Malmo and Copenhagen to create one large ......with economic benefits for all . The two countries signed a .....and a .....was formed to carry out the work. But the project faced a lot of technical difficulties because of....and sea traffic .A tunnel would have been the ideal solution but it was too .....so they decided to build part tunnel and part .....the result is one of the .......cable –stayed bridges in the world.