Bridges : a means of communicating.
By E. Vittoz on Thursday, September 4 2008, 22:52 - Seconde 208 - Permalink
The secondes have a new English textbook this year. It belongs to the famous textbook series "Bridges" published by Hachette. The teachers' team at BDP had already adopted this book for the Premières last year.
We spoke about bridges in class to understand why your book bore that title. And some of you mentioned famous bridges in particular :
- Tower Bridge
- which is sometimes confused with London Bridge
- Brooklyn Bridge in New York :
- And the magnificent and red Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. :
Photo from the Nantes educational website.
- For my part, I have also a soft spot (une tendresse) forthe Millenium Bridge in London :
- The Bridge of Sighs in Oxford
- which is a copy of the bridge of the same name in Venice:
Photo by Matthew Field, wikipedia.
- and the Clifton suspension bridge designed by a very prolific architect Beau Brunel near Bristol which was built in 1864.
- and le Pont du Gard, a wonderful Roman aqueduct in South France.
Photo wikipedia
More in the next post. See you soon ! 
By the way, the photos were taken by (c) Ian Britton - FreeFoto.com unless otherwise indicated.
Comments
The nine bridges presented are very beautiful and they make me want to travel the world to see them for real.
If I can , I want to travel all around the world in all the different countries.
I saw Tower Bridge, it is very beautiful and so tall !
Tiphaine and Julien, I hope you'll be able to travel a lot because it is very enriching. What first country would you like to visit ?
As for Léa, did you go under Tower bridge or did you see it from theThames river banks ? When did you go to London ?
Mince I 'm travel in london and I saw the Tower Bridge It's an unforgettable instant.
Tower Bridge is a bascule bridge which is situated on the Thames to Southwark, near the Tower of London of which it fires its name. At the time of its construction, Tower Bridge was the biggest and most sophisticated ever built bascule bridges. This bridge is world-famous thanks to its very particular architecture: it consists of two big towers, a stiff suspension, an apron opening in the passage of vessels
I really loved a lot LONDON. It is the capital which I like.
@Anthony, When was your trip to London ? I don't remember you telling me about it ! Where did you stay ?
@Jeffrey, are you interested in architecture ?
This is the last year in london (2 day).