Summary
The story of the amazing underwater tunnel that lets trains travel beneath the sea between England and France.
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Discussion
The story of the amazing underwater tunnel that lets trains travel beneath the sea between England and France.
- Where does the Channel Tunnel go, and what travels through it?
- Why would engineers dig a tunnel under the sea instead of building a bridge?
- What would be hard about digging a tunnel underwater?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: tunnel, engineer, channel.
Try it: Find England and France on a map and draw the short route a train takes between them underground.