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Top Facts About Museums (a worksheet)

Activity 1
Discuss the questions:
1. Where is the man in the photo?

2. What kind of museums do you know?
3. What do we do in the museums?
4. Why do we go to the museums?
Activity 2
Complete a mindmap with things you can see in a museum.
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Activity 3
Here are some the exhibits from some unusual museums. Match the words with the pictures.
1. a dog collar_____ 4. a dog collar_____

2. a salt and pepper shaker______ 5. a salt and pepper shaker______
3. underwater sculptures ______ 6. underwater sculptures ______
A. B. C.
E. D. F.
Which of those would you like to see in the museum?
Activity 4
Here are some interesting facts about museums all over the world.
1. Tick the countries mentioned in the text.
Russia ____ Brazil ____ USA ____ UK ____ China____ Japan____ Mexico____ Croatia____
1. There is a museum of salt and pepper shakers in Tennessee. The collection has___ sets.
a) 22,000 b) 220 c) 2200
2. The Underwater Museum in Mexico has over ___ life-size sculptures fixed to the sea floor.
a) 5500 b) 500 c) 550
3. The dog collar museum at Leeds Castle in Kent has ___ dog collars in its collection. Dogs are
not admitted except guide dogs and hearing dogs.
a) 130 b) 230 c)330

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4. There are ___ cats in The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, to take care of mice
and rats.
a) 100 b) 20 c) 50
5. The Fan Museum in Greenwich, London contains more than ___ ladies’ hand fans.
a) 4,000 b) 2000 c) 1000
6. The Umbrella Covers Museum in Peaks Island, Maine, USA, has more than ___ umbrella
covers.
a) 1130 b) 1,300 c)1113
7. Japan has a museum with rocks that look like faces. There are over ___ rocks on display, and
they include rocks that look like E.T. (extra-terrestrial) and Elvis Presley.
a) 700 b) 1000 c) 1,700
8. There are more museums in the US than there are ___ .

a) Starbucks b) McDonald’s c)Starbucks and McDonald’s
9. The largest art robbery in history was in 1990 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
Boston, with 13 paintings worth ___ .
a) $500M b) $100M c) $50M
10. There is a Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia; you can go and leave there person-
al objects left by ex-sweetheart, and write a short story. The museum is ___ square meters.
a) 200 b) 300 c) 500
11. There is an atomic bomb museum in New Mexico, where the first A-bomb was detonated.
The museum is only open ___ hours each year.
a) 12 b) 48 c) 72
Adapted from https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/806143/top-ten-facts-about-museums
2) Read again and choose the correct answer about the fact.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
3) Discuss:
1. Which museum of the above museums has the largest/ fewest numbers of exhibits?
2. Which is the most interesting fact?
3. Which museum would you like to visit?

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Activity 5
1. Do you know what the day of the museums is? When is it?
Read and check.
On the 18 the of May an international event, Museum Night takes place annually in 42 European
countries. Nearly 2,000 museums 'do not sleep' once a year, opening their doors to all who are
interested to see a museum in an unusual time of the day.
2) Is there a museum in the world you want to visit? Maybe a weird museum or a traditional one.
3) Find some information and prepare a short presentation. Use Instagram hashtags:
#museumnight
#museumnightfever
#museumnight2018

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Activity 6
Investigate and create a route for the Museum Night.
Present the plan, mention the following:

1) What museums do you want to visit? Why?
2) What do you want to see in those museums?
3) Which museum are you going to visit first?

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Activity 7 - Extra
How to read the numbers properly?
Circle the correct answer.
а) 22000
twenty-two thousands/ twenty-two and thousand/ twenty-two thousand
b) 220
two hundred twenty/ two hundred and twenty/ two hundreds and twenty
с) 2200
two thousand two hundred/ two thousands and two hundreds/ two thousand and two hundred
Read the numbers in the text in Activity 4 correctly to your partner.

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Top Facts About Museums (a worksheet)

1. Where is the man in the photo?

Created by Maria Nifontova for Skyteach, 2019 ©

1. a dog collar_ 4. a dog collar_

Which of those would you like to see in the museum?

1. Tick the countries mentioned in the text.

Created by Maria Nifontova for Skyteach, 2019 ©

8. There are more museums in the US than there are ___ .

Created by Maria Nifontova for Skyteach, 2019 ©

Created by Maria Nifontova for Skyteach, 2019 ©

Investigate and create a route for the Museum Night.

Present the plan, mention the following:

Created by Maria Nifontova for Skyteach, 2019 ©

Read the numbers in the text in Activity 4 correctly to your partner.

Created by Maria Nifontova for Skyteach, 2019 ©

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