My English Teaching Nook: Inglés Turismo Internacional

Just to remember this week hardest exercise:

1. Cardinal numbers

379 = three hundred and seventy nine
2,860 = two thousand eight hundred and sixty
5,084 = five thousand and eighty-four
470,000 = four hundred and seventy thousand
2,550,000 = two million, five hundred and fifty thousand
3,000,000,000 = three billion

Note: There is no plural’s’ after hundred, thousand, million and billion when they are part of a number.
On their own, they can be plural, e.g. thousands of people; millions of insects.

2. Ordinal numbers and dates

One of the problems with dates is that we write them and say them in a different way:

We write 4 January (or 4th January), but say the fourth of January or January the fourth.
We write 21 May (or 21st May), but say the twenty-first of May or May the twenty-first.
1997 = nineteen ninety seven
1905 = nineteen hundred and five or nineteen oh five

3. Fractions and decimals

11/4 = one and a quarter

1 1/2 = one and a half

1 3/4 = one and three quarters

1 1/3 = one and a third

1.25 = one point two five

1.5 = one point five

1.75 = one point seven five

1.33 = one point three three

4. Percentages

26% = twenty-six per cent

More than 50% is the majority; less than 50% is the minority.

Arithmetic
There are four basic processes for working out (= calculating) a problem:
+ = addition e.g. 6 + 4 = 10 (six plus/and four equals/is ten)
- = subtraction e.g. 6-4 = 2 (six minus four equals/is two)
X = multiplication e.g. 6 X 4= 24 (six times / multiplied by four equals/is twenty-four)
/ = division e.g. 4/2 = 2 (four divided by two equals/is two)

5. Saying ’0′

This can be spoken in different ways in different contexts.

telephone number: 603 724 = six oh three, seven two four (AmEng = six zero three)

mathematics: 0.7 = nought point seven, 6.02 = six point oh two

temperature: -10 degrees = ten degrees below zero / minus ten degrees

football: 2-0 = two nil

tennis: 40-0 = forty love