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drawing
by Gwendoline - 6è1
the
world population Michel
Barbot
One,
Two, Three...
First, second,
third...
One, Two, Three...
cardinal numbers
Never put an "S"
after hundred,
thousand, million or billion!
200 : two hundred (two hundred
cars) (voitures)
8,000 : eight thousand (eight
hundred people) (gens)
3,000,000 : three million (three
million inhabitants) (habitants)
5,000,000,000 : five billion (five
billion human beings) (êtres
humains)
Where you use a "."
in French, you use a ","
in English
50.000 (FR) -
50,000 (GB)
And vice
versa, a "," in French
will be a "." in English
12,5 (FR) -
12.5 (GB)
12,5/20 - 12.5/20 (twelve point
five out of twenty)
A few expressions
11°C : eleven degrees Celsius
4,807 m : four thousand eight
hundred and seven meters (Mount
Blanc)
12 sq km : twelve square kilometers
(12 km2)
1/2 : one half
1/4 : one quarter
1/3 one third
in the 1960s : in the (nineteen)
sixties
250g of sugar : two hundred and
fifty grammes of sugar
534998 (telephone number) : five,
three, four, double nine, eight
5.30 pm (time) : it's half past
five (PAGE
on "what
time is it?")
$95 : ninety-five dollars
$1.20 : one dollar twenty
£120 : one hundred and twenty
pounds
55p : fifty-five pence
1p : one penny
30 € : thirty euros
Patrick's
recording
(1
to 10) American - quick
Patrick's
recording
(1
to 10) American - slow
Miriam's
recording
(1 to 10) English - quick
Miriam's
recording
(1 to 10) English - slow
Miriam's
recording
(11 to 20) English - quick
Miriam's
recording
(11 to 20) English - slow
| 1
one |
2
two |
3
three |
4
four |
5
five |
| 6
six |
7
seven |
8
eight |
9
nine |
10
ten |
| 11
eleven |
12
twelve |
13
thirteen |
14
fourteen |
15
fifteen |
| 16
sixteen |
17
seventeen |
18
eighteen |
19
nineteen |
20
twenty |
Patrick's
recording
(20
to 1,000) American - quick
20 twenty
30 thirty
40 forty
50 fifty
60 sixty
70 seventy
80 eighty
90 ninety
100 a hundred / one hundred
1,000 a thousand / one thousand
Patrick's
recording
(dictation)
Check
your comprehension
Be
careful with the years
1066
ten
sixty-six
1805
eighteen
O
five
1996
nineteen
ninety-six
2005 two thousand AND
five
First,
second, third... ordinal numbers
You use them to
:
- classify (Olympic Games, a race,
a competition...)
- say the date (March 12th - April
1st...)
- do fractions (1/3 - 3/4...)
Ordinal numbers are made from
cardinal numbers.
You simply add "th".
Some numbers change their spelling.
There are exceptions : the first,
the second, the third.
the first (1st)
the second (2nd)
the third (3rd)
the fourth (4th)
the fifth (5th) - "VE"
changes into "F"
the sixth (6th)
the seventh (7th)
the eighth (8th)
the ninth (9th) - "E"
in "nine" disappears
the tenth (10th)
the eleventh (11th)
the twelfth (12th) - "VE"
changes into "F"
the thirteenth (13th)
the fourteenth (14th)
the fifteenth (15th)
the sixteenth (16th)
the seventeenth (17th)
the eighteenth (18th)
the nineteenth (19th)
the twentieth (20th) - "y"
changes into "ie"
the twenty-first (21st)
the twenty-second (22nd)
the twenty-third (23rd)
the twenty-fourth (24th) ...
the thirtieth (30th)
the fortieth (40th)
the fiftieth (50th)
the sixtieth (60th)
the seventieth (70th)
the eightieth (80th)
the ninetieth (90th)
the hundredth (100th)
Other examples
the sixty-fifth (65th)
the ninety-second (92nd)
the hundred AND thirtieth (130th)
A few dates
Monday, April 1st
- Monday 1st April
Tuesday, July 5th - Tuesday 5th
July
Wednesday, August 23rd - Wednesday
23rd August
Thursday, January 2nd - Thursday
2nd January
Friday, June 8th - Friday 8th
June
Saturday, May 12th - Saturday
12th May
Sunday, October 30th - Sunday
30th October
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