Learn how to say numbers in English to tell a price, a date, a time, or describe a monument. With translations in French!

1. Why learn numbers?
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2. When do you use numbers in tourism?
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3. To tell the time!
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4. To tell the date!
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5. To tell the price!
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6. To talk about distances!
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7. To describe monuments and natural
features!
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8. Telling
the time
Numbers
1,2,3
Telling
the price
Talking
about
distances
Telling
the date
Describing
a natural
feature
Describing
a
monument
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9. Words on numbers!
• Number = figure
• Digit (0-9)
• Odd numbers: 1,3,5 etc.
• Even numbers: 2,4,6, etc.
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10. Review the numbers from 20 to 99
(check that you are able to write and pronounce them correctly)
• 20: twenty
• 30: thirty (and 13: thirteen)
• 40: forty (and 14: fourteen)
• 50: fifty (and 15: fifteen)
• 60: sixty (and 16: sixteen)
• 70: seventy (and 17: seventeen)
• 80: eighty (and 18: eighteen)
• 90: ninety (and 19: nineteen)
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11. Large numbers: hundred.
• 100
– a/one hundred
• 110
– a/one hundred (and) ten
• 999
– nine hundred (and) ninety-nine
• Notice: no ‘s’ at the end of ‘hundred’
• Notice: ‘and’ after ‘hundred’ in British English.
• Read: ‘There are 5m inhabitants in this country.’
(no ‘of’ after 5 million)
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12. Large numbers: thousand
• 1,000
– a/one thousand
• 2,345
– two thousand three hundred (and) forty-five
• Notice: no ‘and’ after ‘thousand’ if there is
’hundred’ after
• Notice: a comma (,) to separate groups of
three digits
• Notice: no ‘s’ at the end of ‘thousand’
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13. But…
• Thousands of people
• Hundreds of visitors
• Dozens of opportunities
• Millions of euros
• Tens of thousands of Britons
• Scores of tourists
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14. Very large numbers!
• 100,000
– a/one hundred thousand
• 1,000,000
– a/one million
• 1,000,000,000
– a/one milliard/billion
• 123,456,789
– one hundred and twenty-three million four hundred
and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine
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15. Telling the time.
• Just say the numbers! Forget ‘past’ ‘to’!
• Your train is leaving at 11:40
– eleven forty
• The shop closes at 20:30
– twenty thirty or eight thirty pm
• The park is open from 9:00 (nine) in the
morning to 5:00 (five) in the afternoon.
• 12:00 midday, noon, midnight.
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16. Telling the date.
Review the ordinal numbers.
• 1st
– first
• 2nd
– second
• 3rd
– third
• 4th
– fourth
• 5th
– fifth
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17. Review the ordinal numbers.
• 6th
– sixth
• 7th
– seventh
• 8th
• eighth
• 9th
• ninth
• 10th
– tenth and then you just continue to add ‘th’ at the end
of the numbers (except twenty-first etc.)
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18. Telling the date.
• 15 March 2017
– on the fifteenth of March two thousand and
seventeen (or twenty seventeen)
• 1800
– eighteen hundred
• 2000
– the year two thousand
• 1066
– ten sixty-six
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19. Telling the date.
• 1805
– eighteen ‘oh’ five
• 46BC
– forty-six BC (Before Christ)
• 52AD
– fifty-two AD (Anno Domini, after Christ)
Or more exactly in Latin, Anno Domini Iesu Christi, in
the year of our lord Jesus Christ.
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20. Telling the price.
• €45 $456 £1,234
• $7.99
– seven dollars ninety-nine (cents)
• £10.99
– Ten pounds ninety-nine (pence)
• And in the context of tourism, £150 pp
– A hundred and fifty pounds per person
• €250 pppn
– Two hundred and fifty euros per person per night
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21. The price in other words!
• For transport, use ‘fare’:
– Train/rail fare, bus fare, air fare, taxi fare
• For tourist attractions, you can speak of
entrance/admission fees
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22. Talking about distances.
• How far is Arcachon (from Bordeaux)?
• Arcachon is 60 km away (from Bordeaux).
• The modern art museum is just a stone’s throw away
(from the hotel).
• The tram stop is within walking distance of the
convention center.
• The Galapagos islands are 600 miles off the coast of
Ecuador.
• The airport is a mere twenty minute drive from the
resort.
• Local trains run every 20 minutes.
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23. Describing the dimensions of a
monument or a natural feature.
• The St Andre cathedral is 407 ft long, 59 ft
wide and 75 ft high in the nave and 95 ft high
in the chancel (altar area, coeur).
• The Garonne river is 1,800ft across/wide in
Bordeaux.
• At its headwaters (source of a river), the
Mississippi is less than 3 feet deep.
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24. Adjectives and nouns.
• Long
– Length
• High (sometimes tall)
– Height
• Wide
– Width (beam for a boat)
• Deep
– Depth
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25. High or tall?
• For chimneys, towers, skyscrapers, trees, people and anything else you can think
whose height is purely vertical, and rises or grows high compared to others of its
kind; native speakers will tend to prefer: tall. Its most common antonym is short.
– Ex. The leaning tower of Pisa is only 55.86 meters tall
– I am taller than my sister.
– The giraffe is the tallest animal
• For hills; buildings that are wide as well as tall; walls; women heels; and for objects
above (without physical contact) the ground use high. Its antonym is often low.
– Six-inch high heel shoes
– A high-rise building
– The ceiling is 4ft high
• Sometimes both adjectives can be used to describe the same object and are both
fully acceptable.
– The world's tallest tree is hiding somewhere in California. (...) It's 369 feet high
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