D. Make up short dialogues expressing lack of certainty and surprise. Use prompts given below.
e.g.If I remember rightly, Vladimir Lenin studied in Kazan.
Really? It’s news to me. When was it?
1) There are more than 200 holidays in Russia and only 7 are state ones!
2) In 1240 Kiev was destroyed by the Mongols.
3) The first animal in space was a Russian dog, Laika.
4) Viking Rurik founded the first Russian dynasty in Novgorod.
5) 13 cities in Russia have population over 1 m.
6) The USSR was divided into fifteen independent republics.
7) The Russian Federation is home to as many as 160 different ethnic groups.
SAYING NUMBERS
Numbers
100 a/one hundred
1000 a/one thousand
1 000 000 (1m ) a/one million
3 000 000 000 (3bn) three billion
Bigger numbers
3 560 three thousand five hundred andsixty (BrE)
sixty (AmE)
598, 374 five hundred and ninety-eight thousand, three hundred and forty-
seven(BrE)
ninety-eight thousand, three hundred forty-seven(AmE)
Decimals
Vulgar fractions
16.5 sixteen point five
17.38 % seventeen point three eight percent
0.185 (nought) point one eight five
1/8 a/one eighth
3/8 three eighths
1/2 a/one half
3/4 three quarters
20/83 twenty over eighty three