Brick

. **Pre-reading activity**. What do you know about brick? Share your thoughts. Open a //brick// page in your wiki and answer the following questions (you can do a search on the Web): The bricks are parallelepipeds made of mud that are used for construction. The types of brick are: Solid, Frogged and Perforated. Bricklaying techniques are ways to put bricks(one in top of another, and one next to another) to make a construction. Brick techniques: 1 Running: Secuence of bricks were aftere one line of similar bricks os built, the next one will be made starting at the middle of the first bric form the line bellow. Advantages: Is easy to make, makes the building seem more solid. Dissadvantages: Is too rigid, and not all that pretty 2 stack: Piling up similar bricks aligned one in top of another Advantages: Is better looking than "the running" and is much more popular Disadvantages: (...beats me) is not as resistent enought to make a big construction that suports selely on them.
 * What are they made of?
 * What are they used for?
 * How many types of brick are there?
 * What is the meaning of //brick laying techniques//?
 * Describe 2 brick laying techniques
 * What are their advantages and disadvantages?