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Trang 1Reading out numbers (figures) in English
cardinal numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 … (odd : 1, 3, 5, 7 … even: 2, 4, 6, 8…)
ordinal numbers: 1st , 2nd, 3rd, 4th,…
1 and
In British English, we use and between the hundreds and the tens.
310 - three hundred and ten (US three hundred ten)
5,642 - five thousand, six hundred and forty-two
786,450 – seven hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred and fifty
234,700,000 – two hundred and thirty-four million seven hundred thousand
2 Fractions
5½ = five and a half ⅓ = a third
4/5 = four fifths ¾ = three quarters
2/3 = two thirds 6/7 = six sevenths
⅛ = one eighth 1⅔ = one and two thirds
We use a singular verb after fractions: Three quarters of a ton is too much.
3 Decimals
0.125 (nought) point one two five
3.7 three point seven
0.1 (nought) point one/ (zero) point one
1.25 one point two five
2.1368 two point one three six eight
1.057 one point oh five seven
4.0098 four point zero zero nine eight
4 nought, zero, nil, oh, love
0 is usually called nought in British English, and zero in American English.
When we say numbers one figure at a time, 0 is often called oh
• My account number is four one three oh six.
In measurements of temperature, 0 is called zero.
• Zero degrees Centigrade is thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit.
Zero scores in team games are called nil (American zero)
Zero in tennis and similar games is called love.
5 Telephone numbers
We say each figure separately When the same figure comes twice, we usually
say double (British English only).
• 307 4922 three oh seven four nine double two.
6 Kings and Queens
• Henry VIII (Henry the Eighth)
• Louis XIV (Louis the Fourteenth)
7 Floors
The ground floor of a British house is the first floor of an American house; the British first floor is the American second floor, etc
8 a and one
We can say a hundred or one hundred, a thousand or one thousand One is more
formal
• I want to live for a hundred years.
• Pay Mr J Baron one thousand pounds (on a cheque)
We only use a at the beginning of a number Compare:
• a hundred vs three thousand one hundred
We can use a with other measurement words.
9 Plurals without -s
After a number or determiner, hundred, thousand, million and dozen have no final -s Compare:
• five hundred pounds vs hundreds of pounds
• several thousand times vs It cost thousands.
10 Money
• 1p one penny or a penny
• 5p five pence
• £3.75 three pounds seventy-five
• € 4.85 four euros eighty-five
11 Adjectives
When expressions of measurement, amount and quantity are used as adjectives, they are normally singular
a five-pound note a ten-mile walk six two-hour lessons a three-month-old baby
We can use possessives in expressions of time.
a week’s holiday four days‘ journey
12 there are
When we count the number of people in a group, we often use the structure
there are + number + of+ pronoun.
• There are only seven of us here today
• There were twelve of us in my family
Trang 213 Spoken calculations
Common ways of calculating are:
• 2 + 2=4 two and two is/are four (informal)
two plus two equals four (formal)
• 7 - 4=3 four from seven is three (informal)
seven minus four equals three (formal)
• 3×4 = 12 three times four are twelve (informal)
three multiplied by four equals twelve (formal)
• 9 / 3=3 nine divided by three equals three
14 Dates
30 March 1993 March the thirtieth, nineteen ninety-three
the thirtieth of March, nineteen ninety-three
1305 thirteen hundred and five
thirteen O five
1910 nineteen ten
2005 two thousand and five
55 BC fifty-five BC (before Christ)
AD53/ 53 AD AD fifty-three/ fifty-three AD(Anno Domini)
15 Others
4² = four squared
7³ = seven cubed
10m * 12 m = ten metres by twelve meters
60% = sixty per cent
Speed 100 mph (miles per hour)
Weight 80 kg (kilograms) OR 42 lbs (pounds)
temperature 28° C (celsius) OR 72° F (fahrenheit)
height 1 m 89 cm
1 one and a half l
They left one and a half hours ago.
2 a dozen = (12)
2 dozen roses
3 One out of ten pupils
Every tenth pupil
4 They welcomed the new couple one by one.
The people were stnading in the queue in twos.
The miners descended into the pit in groups of three.
Read them out.
56% _
₤2.3 0.258 _
3076549880 (telephone) 5+7 = 12 2-0 (match)
⅞
⅓ 50p _ 450,670 _ James I
65 mph 6² _
1500 AD _ 18/6 = 3 15-0 (tennis) _
€ 1.85 5³
⅔ 9-2 = 7 2.8906 289,906 _ 100% _
1603 BC _ 4*5 = 20 _
25 lbs _ Elisabeth II _
$ 5.50 _ 8½ 0.9 567,120,238 _
2010 (date)
a boy who’s 2 years old: a _ 25.5 % _ the second floor in the UK = floor in the USA three dozen eggs = _ (how many?) eggs George IV