Student’s Worksheet 2

1. Look at the sentences below. Can you remember any of the facts and figures missing
from the sentences? Listen again and fill in the gaps.
a. The Terracotta Army was discovered in ____________.
1974
b. Experts believe that there are over ____________
8,000 soldiers here.
c. Their average height is about ____________
1.7 metres tall.
40 years
d. The army took about ____________ to build.
1,700 square metres
e. The whole army would take up about ____________!
f. Approximately ____________
700,000 people worked on both the army and the tomb.
a mile
g. The Emperor’s tomb is about ____________ away from here.

Practise saying the numbers from the exercise with your partner.

2. Look at the useful phrases from the listening activity you have just done. Use some of
these phrases to make 3 or 4 sentences about your tourist attraction. Make other
sentences using numbers about your tourist attraction, if you can.
The Terracotta Army
in 1974.
a) __________ was discovered / built in ______________________.

the tallest Terracotta Army

b) The height of ________________________ is _________________________.
1.9 meters.

c) __________________ 3 kilometers
The Terracotta Army is about ________________________ away from here.

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