Practice Numbers in English: Facts About America

Want a better way to practice numbers in English with your students other than role playing the supermarket? This poster uses facts about America to practice numbers in English while also giving your class something to talk about. Use this to practice numbers in English with your beginners or as a conversation starter for your more advanced groups.

How it works ?

This is a poster game that is meant to be played as a class or in small groups. If playing as a class, simply display the poster and follow the instructions. Some of the facts are true and some are false. Students take turns reading the facts and deciding whether they are true or not. Use the answer sheet to correct your students. To push your students to speak more, have them justify their original opinion.

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Answers :

There are nineteen (19) million people living in New York City. – TRUE
There are eight (8) million registered vehicles in Texas. – TRUE
Thirty (30) % of Americans say they are happy. – FALSE -> 14% SOURCE
Fifty-three (53) % of American adults are obese. – FALSE -> 40% SOURCE
Six (6) Americans have walked on the moon. – FALSE -> 12 SOURCE
The United States is home to nearly thirty (30) million immigrants. – FALSE -> 45 million SOURCE
American athletes won thirty-nine (39) gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. – TRUE
Fifty (50) % of Americans have a college degree. – FALSE -> 38% – SOURCE
The American film industry generated about thirty-three billion dollars in 2019 – FALSE -> $42.5B
American mothers typically have their first child when they are twenty-four (24). – FALSE -> 26 SOURCE
Every day, about twenty-seven (27) % of American adults eat fast-food. – TRUE
America is one (1) of three (5) countries that never switched to the metric system. – FALSE -> only 3 countries still do not use the metric system
Ninety (90) % of Americans use the internet. – TRUE
The average American man gets married at thirty (30) and woman at twenty-eight (28). – TRUE
Only thirty-seven (37) % of Americans have a valid passport. – TRUE
There are about seventy-six (76) million dogs in the United States. – TRUE
About forty-five (45) % of Americans believe ghosts are real. – TRUE
Eighty-three (83) % of the world’s bourbon whiskey is produced in the American state of Kentucky. – FALSE -> 95% – SOURCE
The minimum wage in the United States is nine (9) dollars an hour. – FALSE -> $7.25
There are about one hundred and one (101)  guns for every one hundred (100) people in the United States. – TRUE
Six (6) out of ten (10) of the richest people in the world are American. – FALSE -> 8 – SOURCE
Fifteen % of Americans believe they are above-average in intelligence – FALSE -> 65% – SOURCE