Read the following text

POPULATION IN THE UK There were (1) twelve point one million children aged under (2) sixteen in (3) two thousand: (4) six point two million boys and (5) five point nine million girls. This is fewer than in (6) nineteen seventy-one, when there were (7) fourteen point three million children. In (8) two thousand, (9) thirty per cent of children in the UK were under five, (10) thirty-two per cent were aged five to nine years and (11) thirty-eight per cent were aged ten to fifteen. These proportions were similar in the (12) nineteen seventies.

Now choose the correct answers to the questions (1-3) below.

1.	Where is the text from?
	a) A government information leaflet.
	b) A teenage magazine.
2.	What is the text about?
	a) how many children watch TV in Britain.
	b) how many children there are in Britain.
3.	Who is this information useful for?
	a) people planning educational resources
	b) teachers and parents

8. Read the text above again and write the numbers in italics (1-12) from the text in figures.

	12.1m (12,100,000)

Read the text again and decide if the sentences (1-3) below are true (T) or false (F).

	There are more boys than girls in Britain.	T	F
	The total number of children has increased since a census in 1971.	T	F
	In 1971 the same percentage of children were under five.	T	F

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