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I can understand a text about a place in the past. Reading 5.5

4 Complete the questions with the words in the box.
1 2.54 Listen and repeat. Label the
pictures with the words in the Vocabulary
How many How many Was Were What
box. Which places are there in your town?
1 How many people were there in Hollywood
Vocabulary Places in town (2) in 1900?

There were 5,000 people.
police station post office shopping centre
2 there a post office in 1900?
sports centre swimming pool train station
No, there wasn’t.
3 films popular in 1911?
Yes, they were. Films were very popular.
4 film studios were there in 1912?
There were 50 film studios.
1 post office 2 3 5 is Universal Studios?
It’s a big cinema in Hollywood.

5 Read the text again. Which answers in Exercise 4
are true and which are false? Correct the false
answers.
4 5 6
1 False. There were 500 people.
2 2.55 Read and listen to the text about
Hollywood. Which of the places in the 1900 = nineteen hundred
Vocabulary box are in the text? L K!
1911 = nineteen eleven
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3 2.55 Read and listen to the text again. 2005 = two thousand and five
Copy the time line in your notebook. Put the 2017 = twenty seventeen
places in Hollywood on the time line.

our
1900 1911 1912 Today 6 2.56 Listen and write the years in your
In 1900, Hollywood was a small DUV
notebook.
a post office, … 1 1965
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the town! Hollywood wasn’t a quiet small village of the past!
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