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Read the following text. Complete the text by putting a word or number from the box below in each space (1-10).
| half -5° -40° 88% Hundreds 200 14,000 1989 4000 5000m² |
| THE JUKKASJARVI ICEHOTEL The Jukkasjarvi Icehotel in Sweden is an interesting and cold place for a holiday. It started life as an igloo (a small house made of snow) at an art exhibition in (1) __________ . (2) __________ of people visited the exhibition and some even slept there, so the builders decided to make it a hotel. The Icehotel is open for less than (3) __________ of the year. Every May it melts and every November it is rebuilt. It now measures (4)__________ and it needs (5) __________ tons of ice and 30,000 tons of snow to build it. This actually means that it is more than (6) __________ snow. The temperature inside the hotel is usually about (7) __________ . Outside in Jukkasjarviitself the temperature can be much lower even as low as (8) __________ ! Last year more than (9) __________ visitors travelled (10)__________ km north of the Arctic Circle to sleep in thermal sleeping bags. They got a cool reception! |
Write the following numbers correctly.
| thirty-four point five percent | ||
| six point nine seven | ||
| one third | ||
| four thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven | ||
| three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight | ||
| fifty-five percent | ||
| a half | ||
| seven point six five |
Search the Internet and find the answers to the following questions.
a) Who introduced Arabic numbers to European maths?
b) Who developed the idea of ‘zero’?
Read the following text.
| POPULATION IN THE UK There were (1) twelve point one million children aged under (2) sixteen in (3) two thousand: (4) six point two million boys and (5) five point nine million girls. This is fewer than in (6) nineteen seventy-one, when there were (7) fourteen point three million children. In (8) two thousand, (9) thirty per cent of children in the UK were under five, (10) thirty-two per cent were aged five to nine years and (11) thirty-eight per cent were aged ten to fifteen. These proportions were similar in the (12) nineteen seventies. |
Now choose the correct answers to the questions (1-3) below.
| 1. | Where is the text from? |
| a) A government information leaflet. | |
| b) A teenage magazine. | |
| 2. | What is the text about? |
| a) how many children watch TV in Britain. | |
| b) how many children there are in Britain. | |
| 3. | Who is this information useful for? |
| a) people planning educational resources | |
| b) teachers and parents |
8. Read the text above again and write the numbers in italics (1-12) from the text in figures.
| 12.1m (12,100,000) | ||||
Read the text again and decide if the sentences (1-3) below are true (T) or false (F).
| There are more boys than girls in Britain. | T | F | |
| The total number of children has increased since a census in 1971. | T | F | |
| In 1971 the same percentage of children were under five. | T | F |
Check the knowledge of active vocabulary from this module with the help of
“ACTIVE VOCABULARY” section.
SIGNS, SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
(the material of the module is taken from:“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP;
Unit 23, pg.26; Unit 24; pg.27)
SECTION A
What do these abbreviations stand for? Match the abbreviations below with their full forms (1-9) below.
| cm kg l ml g (x)² (x)³ km m | |||||||
| centimetre | metre | ||||||
| gram | millilitre | ||||||
| kilogram | cubic | ||||||
| kilometre | square | ||||||
| litre |
2. Do we have the same words in the Russian language? Why is it useful to have standard international systems?