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BBC Learning English
Words in the News
14
th
March 2011
London's Olympic Park is nearly finished
On Tuesday, it's only 500 days until competition begins in the London 2012 Olympics. In
preparation for the games, there has been huge redevelopment in East London. Sir Matthew
Pinsent, four-time gold medal winner for rowing, went to explore the Olympic Park:
If you go down to East London today, you’ll notice
a
transformation
. Three years ago, this
area of Stratford was
an
urban wasteland
.
500 days to go, and London’s Olympic Park is
taking shape
. The
velodrome
is finished,
they’re
tiling
the diving pool, and the stadium seats are in and covered up to protect them
from the London weather.
At its heart
are more than five miles of newly opened
waterways
. These used to be big,
industrial canals
, and then they fell into disrepair.
But they run almost like
arteries
across the whole Olympic site. The stadium there sits on an
island, completely surrounded by water, and what’s fantastic is to see them coming back to
life. So often, water in London is used and abused, and this – it’s being
cherished
.
When the diggers have gone, there’ll be a new urban park here in Stratford – the biggest to be
built in Europe for 150 years. A quarter of a million new wetland plants have gone in, and
4,000 new trees.
Matthew Pinsent, BBC News, London
Words in the News
© British Broadcasting Corporation 2011
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 Vocabulary and definitions
a transformation
a complete change
an urban wasteland
area of land (in a city or town) which is unused, and is not
in a good condition
taking shape
here, starting to look almost complete or finished
velodrome
sports arena where cyclists compete on a circular track
here, installing tiles on the floor and sides of
tiling
at its heart
at the centre of it
waterways
here, canals or man-made channels of water, which will be
used for water sports
large channels of water used by businesses to transport
industrial canals
goods by boat or barge
arteries
here, links or connections (arteries are tubes which carry
blood from the heart to the rest of a person's body)
taken care of
cherished
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Words in the News
© British Broadcasting Corporation 2011
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