Brick!

 ** What are they made of? ** They can be made of so many different materials. According to Wikipedia, “Bricks may be made from clay, shale, soft slate, calcium silicate, concrete, or shaped from quarried stone. Clay is the most common material, with modern clay bricks formed in one of three processes - soft mud, dry press, or extruded.”

** What are they used for? ** They can be used for build so many things around the world. In architecture is one of the most famous materials of construction, the architects can use it for make walls, sits, floors, and maybe roofs. Besides, in urban planning, they are used for make floors the most, little and big walls, columns, and some outside decoration.

** There are many types of bricks, maybe we can classify then according to the material which they are made of, the shape, and maybe the use of each one. There are bricks made of different materials, like concrete bricks, grave bricks, glass bricks, wood bricks, clay bricks, and so on. Besides there are brick for different uses, decoration bricks, construction bricks, and so on.
 * How many types of brick are there?

** What is the meaning of // brick laying techniques // ? ** The brick laying techniques are the different ways that we can place the bricks for construction.

** Describe 2 brick laying techniques ** As we can see on the picture there are at least six brick laying techniques, we are go to describe only two of them. **In first **  the technique of runnig, is the most famous technique used in the whole world, it consist in run a little the bricks for create a strong wall o whatever we'll go to do. While we make a diferent row, we have to run the bricks and then we have been done a wall with the running technique.
 * In second ** we have the stack technique, which is just put the bricks one over the other and make a column of bricks. Is just put in order the bricks without any particular method.


 * What are their advantages and disadvantages?**

Maybe, the disadvantages that we can find in some techniques is the stability of the construction. In general the brick could have disadvantages, like the transporting or fragility, but this disadvantages depends of the material of they are made of. In my point of view, the brick is a material easy to use, because the techniques of their uses are not complicated, I mean is not necesary to think in complicated sciences for use it. Also, the durability of the construction will be depends of the material that they are made of, so the brick have an advantage while the builders do the bricks of the strongest materials.


 * Another Brick on the wall **

In the song another brick on the wall, the word brick have a more philosophical concept, in this song the authors talk about the life, and how not to be like the others, when they said " you're just another brick in the wall" they mean that the people is just someone in a croud, and we all act in the same way. So we have to be diferents.

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=About the reading of brick:=

1. Find out the meaning of the expressions below, and write your explanation on your wiki. Illustrations will be appreciated!

• //Brick upon brick //  • //Brick & mortar //  • //Be /come up against a brick wall //  • <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Come down on somebody like a ton of bricks // <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> • <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Drop a brick

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