Narrator: Exercise 3.2. A. Write down the numbers you hear in the following sentences:
A i. Manchester is 185 miles distance from London and 35 miles from Liverpool,
ii. Over 10 million passengers passed through Manchester Airport in 1997.
iii. The new 2400-seater Bridgewater Hall houses northern England's best orchestra, the Halle.
iv. The first steam-operated cotton mill opened in Manchester in 1783.
v. The University of Manchester has over 18,000 students and almost 3000 academic staff.
vi. Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry is open 7 hours a day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
vii. Inside is a working replica of a very early steam train, The Planet, built in 1830 and with a speed of 30 mph.
viii. Liverpool stretches about 13 miles along the River Mersey, but the city centre is only l1/4 square miles in size,
ix. The population of Liverpool peaked in 1931 at 855,000; today it is just over 519,000.
x. For over 400 years, tens of millions of African slaves were shipped through Liverpool bound for America. |