People all levels seem to have a lot difficulties with numbers, whether it is when saying dates or with fractions or long numbers. Here is a compilation of material that you, if you are one of these people, might find useful.
Numbers
See them, hear them + lots of useful
info.
Number+ teen
number +ty
Thir teen thir ty
Saying
long numbers:
very easy, same order as in your
language
Watch and learn: J
Three hundred
and
thirty
three
thousand
three
hundred
and
thirteen…
quin
número és?
In British English we
use and
after
“hundred”.
We
pronounce it very quickly like in Guns ‘n roses,
the
musing band from 1990s!
Dates
In English, we can say dates either with the day before the month, or the month before the day:
We write: 1st Jan, 2001 or Jan 1st, 2001… and 1 Jan, 2001 or Jan 1, 2001
In English, we can say dates either with the day before the month, or the month before the day:
We write: 1st Jan, 2001 or Jan 1st, 2001… and 1 Jan, 2001 or Jan 1, 2001
We say: The first of January /
January the first.
Remember to use ordinal numbers for
dates in English even if we do not write it.
(The first, the second, the third, the fourth, the twenty-second, the thirty-first etc.)
(The first, the second, the third, the fourth, the twenty-second, the thirty-first etc.)
Years
For years up until 2000, separate the four
For years up until 2000, separate the four
numbers into two pairs of two:
1965 = nineteen sixty-five
1871 = eighteen seventy-one
1999 = nineteen ninety-nine
1965 = nineteen sixty-five
1871 = eighteen seventy-one
1999 = nineteen ninety-nine
For this decade, you need to say
"two thousand and —-" when speaking British English:
2001 = two thousand and one
2009 = two thousand and nine
2001 = two thousand and one
2009 = two thousand and nine
Large
numbers
Divide the number into units of hundreds and thousands:
400,000 = four hundred thousand (no s plural)
Divide the number into units of hundreds and thousands:
400,000 = four hundred thousand (no s plural)
If the number includes a smaller
number, use "and" in British English:
450,000 = four hundred and fifty thousand
400,360 = four hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty
450,000 = four hundred and fifty thousand
400,360 = four hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty
Watch this video: http://www.engvid.com/speaking-english-saying-numbers/
Fractions,
ratios and percentages
½ = one half
1/3 = one third
¼ = one quarter
1/5 = one fifth
1/ 6 = one sixth etc
3/5 = three fifths
½ = one half
1/3 = one third
¼ = one quarter
1/5 = one fifth
1/ 6 = one sixth etc
3/5 = three fifths
1.5% = one point five
percent
0.3% = nought / zero point three percent
0.3% = nought / zero point three percent
2:1 = two to one
Saying
0
Depending on the context, we can pronounce zero in different ways:
2-0 (football) = Two nil
30 – 0 (tennis) = Thirty love
604 7721 (phone number) = six oh four…
0.4 (a number) = nought point four / zero point four
0C (temperature) = zero degrees
Depending on the context, we can pronounce zero in different ways:
2-0 (football) = Two nil
30 – 0 (tennis) = Thirty love
604 7721 (phone number) = six oh four…
0.4 (a number) = nought point four / zero point four
0C (temperature) = zero degrees
Talking about calculations in
English
+ (plus)
2 + 1 = 3 (two plus one equals/is three)
- (minus / take away)
5 – 3 = 2 (five minus three equals two / five take away three equals two)
x (multiplied by / times)
2 x 3 = 6 (two multiplied by three equals six / two times three equals six)
/ (divided by)
6 / 3 = 2 (six divided by three equals two)
+ (plus)
2 + 1 = 3 (two plus one equals/is three)
- (minus / take away)
5 – 3 = 2 (five minus three equals two / five take away three equals two)
x (multiplied by / times)
2 x 3 = 6 (two multiplied by three equals six / two times three equals six)
/ (divided by)
6 / 3 = 2 (six divided by three equals two)
