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A Discuss.
• What kind of museums have you been to?
• Which museum is your favourite one?
• Have you been to or would you like to visit a natural history museum?
What kind of exhibition halls can you find at such a museum?
B B Listen, read and match the pictures 1-3 with the people Brian, Lisa and Jennifer.
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Year 11, Liam Cooper’s class
A trip to the American Museum of Natural History
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At Eastwood Secondary School, we believe it’s important to learn by experience. So, last Thursday,
we visited the American Museum of Natural History as part of a ive-day trip to New York City.
Here are some of the things that our students enjoyed the most!
Brian Lisa Jennifer

There were so many things It was my first time there, so For me, the dino fan, the dinosaur
to see at the museum, like I didn’t know what to expect. halls were the best! That’s where
dinosaur halls and reptile When we entered the Hall you can find the biggest collection
halls, but what really amazed of Ocean Life, I was amazed! of dinosaur bones in the world. I
me was in the Hall of North There’s a model of a giant couldn’t stop taking pictures. My
American forests. There, blue whale which is hanging favourite hall was the one with
you can see a slice of a tree from the ceiling! It’s huge! the 65-million-year-old fossil of
trunk which used to be part The guide who was showing Tyrannosaurus rex, and fossils of
of a 92-metre-tall tree in us round told us that it’s other dinosaurs whose names I
California. This particular almost 29 metres long forget. T. rex was very powerful,
tree was a giant sequoia and weighs over 9 tonnes! but I think the most terrifying thing
tree, and was 1,400 years Imagine that! Another place was its head with its huge jaw full
old when it was cut down. I liked was the Hall of African of 15-centimetre-long sharp teeth.
Fortunately, people aren’t Mammals. It has models of One thing I learnt was that it had a
allowed to cut down sequoia elephants and lions – animals larger brain than most other dinos.
trees any more. which I absolutely love! Big, strong... and clever!

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C Read again and write T for True, F for False or NM for Not Mentioned.
1. Brian, Lisa and Jennifer all go to the 7. Jennifer remembers the names of
same school. all the dinosaurs whose fossils she saw.
2. Brian’s favourite exhibit was in one of the 8. T. rex’s teeth were 5 cm long.
dinosaur halls.
3. The slice of the tree is from a tree which
grew to be 92 years old. Over to you...
4. Lisa’s classmates liked the model of the
blue whale. Discuss.
5. Lisa saw models of some of her favourite Do you think schools should visit
animals in the Hall of African Mammals. museums? Why? / Why not?
What other places should schools
6. Jennifer saw the largest dinosaur model visit? Why?
in the world at the museum.
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