hi guys, here's a small exercise for you (courtesy of my colleague MartÃn).
Read this text excerpted from an entry in the blog of a Scotsman currently visiting Barcelona. Try to complete it without looking at the full text below.
Monday, 13 December 2010
On day 2 I was left to fend for myself in a city where I wasn’t sure which language I was supposed to speak, and spoke neither of them anyway. With my eternal shame of being a tourist, and especially an English-speaking one, this was a problem. I decided the best course of action would be to pass the day on activities involving the bare minimum human-to-human interaction. The morning would be spent in the Museum of History of Barcelona and the afternoon in the Picasso museum.
The main attraction of the MUHBA was its basement. The buildings …………….. the MUHBA were built …………. the remains of the Roman city of Barcino, ………… date from the 1st century BC to the 7th AD. The ………… sections of the museum I rather skipped through, but I was pleasantly surprised by the ruins. They are ………. more extensive than I expected, …………….. not only houses and shops, but a church, bishop’s palace, laundry, baths, wine production facility and fish sauce factory. The level of industrialisation is impressive and the remains are …………… preserved – much more than just walls and doorways – …………….. meant I could actually believe it when I ………… told what each building was used ……………... This was added to by the use of coloured lighting – blue in the baths and laundry, red in the fish sauce plant – although they could have made ………………… of this. The audio guide also explained the techniques of archaeology.
KEYS:
The main attraction of the MUHBA was its basement. The buildings housing the MUHBA were built above the remains of the Roman city of Barcino, which date from the 1st century BC to the 7th AD. The other sections of the museum I rather skipped through, but I was pleasantly surprised by the ruins. They are far more extensive than I expected, containing not only houses and shops, but a church, bishop’s palace, laundry, baths, wine production facility and fish sauce factory. The level of industrialisation is impressive and the remains are well preserved – much more than just walls and doorways – which meant I could actually believe it when I was told what each building was used for. This was added to by the use of coloured lighting – blue in the baths and laundry, red in the fish sauce plant – although they could have made more of this. The audio guide also explained the techniques of archaeology.
Now, you may want to check out the actual blog for a Scotsman’s fresh look at the Picasso Museum and Spanish TV.
