Bricks

**How many types of brick are there?**
===There are a lot of brick kinds but the buildings brick, the masonry brick, and the face bricks are ones of the most used in construction. You can se more at: []===

wall to be strogest and to have a different pattern.
===**//Running or Stretcher Bond: it is//** A pattern made using only stretchers, with the joins in each row (or course) centred on the bricks in the row below. Not structurally strong or aesthetically interesting, but very very common. Often used for curtain walls one brick thick.=== ===//**English Bond:**// A pattern in which rows of stretchers alternate with rows of headers. The joins between the stretchers are centred on the headers in the row below. All the stretchers are centred above the stretchers below, and all the headers are centred on the headers below.===
 * ===**Describe 2 brick laying techniques**===

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 * ===**What are their advantages and disadvantages?**===

===I think for my house i´ll use differents kinds of bricks. First i'll use concrete bricks to build the structural part of the house; then some clay face bricks to put at the walls of the patio where i´ll have my grill and a wood oven. Also at the outside i´ll use ashlar-masonry where climbing plants on the walls will give my home a nature and historic aspect.===

**"drop a brick"** it is called the situation when you have about to announce a shocking news.

 * Interview:**


 * Jorge:** ....Excuse me, is this 90.9 fm?


 * Host:** ...Yes, yes. You are the first caller and You are now live at 90.9 fm, on the program called Travelers and Nothing More. What is your name Sr.?


 * Jorge:** Hi mi name is Jorge and I listen to your program every day.


 * Host:** Jorge we must say that because you are the first caller today, if you tell us some information about a public place in Italy you will win 2 movie tickets to watch the movie premier of ¨Once Upon a Time in Siena¨. Do you agree?


 * Jorge:** Yes! I am ready


 * Host:** Jorge, I am gonna ask you first, Do you know the Piazza del Campo in Siena, Italy?


 * Jorge**: Yeah I have read about it, but What is the question?


 * Host:** No, no questions. You only have to talk a little bit about this place in order to win the prize. So we hope you tell us the truth, remember you are live at 90.9fm

Jorge: Ok, sure.


 * Host:** Lets start. We must say to the people who don´t know the Piazza del Campo, That it´s a famous shell shaped field, located at the hub of the city in Siena and it is one of a kind architectonic european mastepiece. So what do you think about it?


 * Jorge:** Well I remember that the square is covered by buildings of the 13th century and in that time the comunity of Siena tried to use it as a market square or for public events.


 * Host:** Yes, yes indeed and what do you think about the construction of the square.


 * Jorge:** Well I remember that in the pictures of the book I read, the square and buildings were built all with different kinds of red bricks; and also I read they have like some restrictions for external ornamentations, because a few buildings were demolished at that time.


 * Host**: That's very true, also brick paving were divided in nine secctions with white stones representing the “Governo dei Nove”, and it almost took 20 years of construction to end it. Jorge the tickets are totally yours, but before going to comercials, Do you think people used nowadays piazza del campo in the same way than before?


 * Jorge:** Em... the square it's used today also for public events. Faced to the square it is the Town Hall, and nowadays in this place it is celebrated the “Museo Civico”, it is like a musseum that preserve old artworks and new paintings created by artists of the “School of Siena”. I think this is very cool beacuse you have musseum just in front of a square, so maybe one day you can enjoy public events given by this two places that are so near to each other.


 * Host:** Oh I didn't know that, well thank you jorge you really know a lot about the Piazza del Campo, you ciertainly earn those two movie tikets, so please stay on line.


 * Jorge:** Well thanks a lot, bye....


 * Host:** That's all for tonight for Travelers and Nothing More. We at the 90.9fm left you with some music, see you untill the next time...

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