Read and complete the text by putting a word or number from the box in each space.

Existing each year between December and April, the Icehotel in the village of Jukkasjä rvi, Sweden was the world's first ice hotel. In ____1____, Japanese ice artists visited the area and created an exhibition of ice art. In Spring ___2___, French artist Jannot Derid held an exhibition in a cylinder-shaped igloo in the area. One night there were no rooms available in the town, so some of the visitors asked for permission to spend the night in the exhibition hall. They slept in sleeping bags on top of reindeer skin - the first guests of the " hotel."

The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks taken from the Torne River - even the glasses in the bar are made of ice. The Icehotel is open for less than ____3_____ of the year. Every May it melts and every November it is rebuilt. It now measures ____4_____ and it needs______5________ tons of ice and 30 000 tons of snow to build it. This actually means that it is more than ___6___ snow. The ice is used for creating Icebar designs and ice glasses, for ice sculpting classes, events and product launches all over the world while the snow is used for building a strong structure for the building.

The temperature inside the hotel is usually about ____7______. Outside in Jukkasjä rvi itself the temperature can be much lower even as low as ___8____!

Last year more than ____9____ visitors travelled ____10_____ km north of the Arctic Circle to sleep in thermal sleeping bags. They got a cool reception!

Answer the following questions on the text.

1) When and how was the Icehotel founded?

2) What is the usual temperature inside the hotel?

3) Do think the Icehotel could be considered an engineering achievement? Why (not)?

4) Why do think the Icehotel is so popular with tourists?

5) What other unusual places to spend your holiday can you think of?

Match the numbers in the box with their verbal nominations below (1-10).

You should remember that in English you write a point (.) not a comma (,) in decimal numbers. You should say the numbers after the point separately, for example 56.91 is “fifty-six point nine one.”

1) two thirds

2) three point five

3) a quarter

4) two hundred sixty four

5) thirty-six point eight seven

6) two million

7) a half

8) three thousand, four hundred and sixty

9) zero/ nought

10) eight point four per cent

Read the following numbers correctly.

15, 262; 2, 000, 000, 000; 79.1%; 400; 1/3; ½; ¼; 12.45; 6 m; 349; 7.789; 2, 639.

4. Work in pairs. Dictate your numbers to your partner so that he/she could write them down correctly.