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(The text is borrowed and modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookbinding: as of 21 January 2012)
Watch the video “Books: How they are made” two times and fill in the gaps with words and phrases from the video (You have 15 minutes for this task). Books: How they are made Book bindings date back to 1) _________ century, Egypt, where Christian Moncks sawed sheets of papyrus together. Moncks in 2) __________ stitch together hand written parchments, binding them between wooden boards often covered in 3) _____________, sometimes even embellished with gold leave and jams. The 16 century saw the arrival of 4) ______________________ with simple case board bindings. Today commercial book binding is highly mechanized. The process starts with 5) _____________, each containing several consecutive pages of the book. A worker positions a stuck of each sheet into a machine appropriately called “the guillotine”. Its sharp blade drops down and 6) __________ access paper. After trimming the stuck moves into a machine called “the folder” which falls each sheet into 7) __________ with the pages and the right order. As we see here, in slow motion, the machine starts by perforating the fold line. Then the sheet moves along the 8)___________ until it hits a stopper to the fire right. This process repeats itself for each fold of the sheet. Another machine now assembles them in the right 9) _________ along with the cover for binding. There are many different binding methods. This one is called wire stitching. As we see here in slow motion, the machine drives heavy duty staples right through the 10) _______________ of the signature’s uncover. The staples are cut from steal wire that’s so strong. You have to tear the book apart to remove them… Task 6. Now recall the things which you saw in the film. Underline the objects you saw. leather, conveyer belt, books, paper, wooden boards, keyboard, man in a uniform, newspapers, book binding process. Task 7. After watching the video you have already understood the process of book binding peculiarities in general. Read the text about various commercial techniques in book binding that are used nowadays and methods of hardcover binding, in particular, and answer the following questions (You have 15 minutes for this task): ü Which of the mentioned below binding methods is the most reliable one? ü Which of the mentioned below binding methods is the simplest one? ü Is oversewing the most common type of hardcover binding for books?
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Task 5. Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching a book cover to the resulting text-block. There are various commercial techniques in use today and we are going to get to know them.
