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ACTIVITY LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Jorvik Centre, York

Listen to the documentary and choose the best answer to these

questions:
1. How was York first named?
a. Jorking b. York c. Jorvik

2. When were the first excavations made?

a. In 1999 b. In 1979 c. In 1799

3. Those excavations began being made by the side of…

a. An old suits Market b. An old Whisky factory c. An old
sweets factory

4. What century are we talking about?

a. 11th b. 10th c. 12th

5. What conditions of the terrain made excavations easier?

a. sandy b. dry c. dump

6. They found among others… (tick the correct answers)

Spoons tools woods leather
Bones clothes a toilet

7. A total of _______ objects were found

a. 4,000 b. 40,000 c.14,000

8. In 2001 the centre got £_____ to improve research.

a. 15 million b. nine million c. five million

9. What does Raifin do? He is a/an____

a. sailman b. salesman c. tradesman

10. Where does he come from?

a. Norwich c. Dublin c. Helsinki

11. What are his spoons made of?

a. horns b. bones c.wood

12. Around the museum you basically see how people of that century lived
in…
a. their homes b. the streets c. fields

13. What is being reconstructed exactly as they were?

a. people’s faces b. people’s places c. people’s skulls