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Comprehension check
Decide whether these statements are True or False.
1. Americans are moving from the south and west to the northeast.
2. The birth-rate is higher then the death-rate in the US.
3. By 2050 almost a quarter of the population of the US will be Spanish-speaking.
4. Americans use 5% of the world’s energy resources.
5. The population of the mid-western states is increasing.
6. The fastest-growing states are Florida and California.
7. More than half the population of the USA lives in just 10 states.
8. America is becoming less crowded.
US population passes 300 million
Level 1 
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Elementary
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Vocabulary Numbers
Rewrite these numbers and dates from the text as words
1. 1,214
2. 69%
3. 2070
4. 400m
5. 1970
6. 12.1%
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Grammar Irregular past tenses
Complete the table.
 
Base form Past simple
1. rise
2. think
3. become 
4. build
5. lose
6. fall
7. see
8. leave
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Word stress
Put these words from the text into one of the three boxes according to their stress pattern.
 

 
dramatically population environment generation
 

 
suburban according director controversial
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B
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C
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US population passes 300 million
Level 1 
l
Elementary
43

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Fill the gaps using these key words from the text: