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Numbers in the news
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Hear years, percentages and large amounts in news reports.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- attract
- To make people want to come.
- average
- Usual or typical, found by adding amounts and dividing.
- unemployment
- The number of people who want a job but do not have one.
Answer key
- The festival attracted around 60,000 visitors.Write 60,000 or sixty thousand. Commas in numbers do not affect checking.
- The museum first opened in 1925.Years are read in pairs: “nineteen twenty-five” is 1925.
- Average house prices rose by 3 percent last year.Write 3 or three; “%” and “per cent” are also accepted.
- The project will cost about 2 billion dollars.Write 2 or two; $2 billion is also accepted.
- Unemployment fell to its lowest level since 2008.“Two thousand eight” is 2008; British speakers often say “two thousand and eight”.