How Venice works: Extensive listening

How Venice works: Venice Backstage is a documentary I discovered through Free Technology for Teachers.

The eighteen-minute film tells us all the ins and outs of the city:
How the “Venice system” works.
How the tides in the lagoon behave.
How the canals are  formed .
How the embankments are formed.
What there is under the buildings.

Unfortunately, no transcript or subtitles are available, but the speed of delivery is on the slow side, and the spectator gets lots of on-screen visual clues, which help them understand the main ideas in the film. There is also a short glossary in English available here, where the main vocabulary items are explained.


Venice Backstage. How does Venice work? from Insula spa on Vimeo.