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Facts and Figures
Using numbers in English
By Ruth Wickham, Training Fellow, IPGKDRI
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Numbers we mis-hearTHIR-ty thir-TEENFOR-ty four-TEENFIF-ty fif-TEENSIX-ty six-TEENSEV-en-ty sev-en-TEENEIGHT-ty eigh-TEENNINE-ty nine-TEEN
Be careful of the STRESS!
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BIG numbers
1957 One nine five seven
nineteen fifty-seven
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Practise with these dates:
1996
1940
1908
1990 1913
1919
1928
1901
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21st Century Dates
“Two thousand and …” or “Twenty –”
2001
2010
2012 2030
2011
2006
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Other BIG numbers Use ‘and’
239 - two hundred AND thirty -nine
3045 – three thousand AND forty-five
204 – two hundred AND four
8006 - eight thousand AND six * Not in American English
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Other BIG numbers ‘Round’ numbers in thousands are
often read as ‘hundreds’
1100 - eleven hundred
3500 – thirty-five hundred
3246 – three thousand, two hundred and forty-six
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Number ‘1’The number ‘1’ is commonly pronounced as ‘a’ when it is the first digit.
e.g. 150 would be read as ‘a hundred and fifty’.
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LET’S PLAY BINGO!
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Do not write on your card
Use sunflower seeds as markers
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FIVE-IN-A-ROW = BINGO!