DEPARTAMENTO DE CIVIL Y AMBIENTAL

PROFESORA KARINA SOFÍA DÍAZ MARTÍNEZ

ACTIVIDAD DE INGLÉS

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GENERACIÓN DE VOCABULARIO A PARTIR DE UN VIDEO CON SUBTÍTULOS EN INGLÉS Y

LISTENING EN INGLÉS

Entregar el trabajo en este documento de Word, y deberá ser guardado con el nombre del estudiante
(APELLIDO NOMBRE.doc)

1. Escuchar el siguiente vídeo en inglés (pueden activar los subtítulos en inglés de YouTube): (1) Drinking-
water distribution systems | Veolia - YouTube
2. Construir un vocabulario con las palabras que no conozcan (máximo 20 palabras entre técnicas y
cotidianas). Las palabras seleccionadas deben ser definidas, en inglés, con sus propias palabras; dicha
definición no puede ser extraída de diccionario.
3. Responder la siguiente pregunta:
a. How does Veolia identify the water leaks?

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ACTO DE FRAUDE SERÁ SEVERAMENTE CASTIGADO.

The vocabulary taken from the video is listed below:

Drinking water: liquid suitable for human consumption.

Resources: Availability of some element.

Levels: Level or height where some element reaches, in this case water.

Global vision: Possibility of seeing an entire system.

Gauges: Artifacts with the ability to measure something.

Topology: Characteristics of some system.

System: Set of things or elements.

Operational efficiency: The ability of an element to meet a demand.

Pumping: sending some type of fluid through a pipe by means of some type of pump.

Losses: In hydraulics it refers to all the causes that decrease the pressure in a pipe network system.

Monitoring: It is to control that the system works properly.

Leak: loss of fluid, which contributes to loss of pressure and flow in a pipe network.

Human consumption: Everything related to what a human being can ingest (liquids and solids).
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PROFESORA KARINA SOFÍA DÍAZ MARTÍNEZ
ACTIVIDAD DE INGLÉS

Sensors: instruments used to collect or record data.

Pressure: In hydraulics it refers to the force with which the water is moved through the pipes.

Supply: In hydraulics it refers to bringing water to different points that are required.

Treatment plants: It is a set of elements or systems, where a special treatment is given to the water (disinfection)
and make it suitable for human consumption.

Demand: In hydraulics it refers to the amount of water that is consumed in a city, town, houses, etc.

Regulations: In hydraulics, it refers to the supply capacity of a pipe network system, during the day.

How does Veolia identify the water leaks?

Veolia identifies leaks by means of instruments (sensors and meters) in the network, and thanks to acoustic
detection techniques, or the use of a tracer gas.