· 3 lists · 151 words

The built world

What is planned, built and supplied.

What holds these lists together

The same subject at three distances: the single building, the street in front of it, and the pipes and cables that supply both. The lists belong together because their words turn up in the same kinds of text — the local paper, the planning notice, the purchase deed — and because they share one difficulty: almost every noun names a step in a procedure rather than a thing. La réception des travaux is no reception but the formal acceptance of the work, from which the builder’s guarantees begin to run; la concertation is the public consultation a project has to go through. Both are moments at which something happens in law.

The three lists

B2Building and propertyFrom the plot to the handover — the words on every building site and in every contract of sale.51 words B2Planning a city and its trafficLand use, network, walking, noise — the words a city argues in when it rebuilds itself.50 words B2Energy and raw materialsGrid, generation, storage, consumption — the words without which a report on the price of electricity cannot be read.50 words

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.

Level	Words	Share
B2	151	100 %

Practise this category

Multiple choice and gaps, across all three lists and all 151 words. Whatever you get wrong comes back tomorrow.