Listening 1

PNMT
Numbers
Cardinal numbers
Ordinal numbers
Time Money
Decimal fractions
Cardinal numbers
 Students work in pair
 Students will say the number from 1 to

31
 Students will count no more than 3 digits

for one turn

 Student who reaches number 31 will lose
Ordinal numbers

What are ordinal numbers?

 They are numbers that refer to the position of

something in a series, for example ‘first’, ‘second’, etc.

 /Θ/
Sound
Listen and repeat
 Exercise 1: Read the following ordinals after the
speakers:
 Or 

Twenti-eighth
Twelfth
Twenty-fiveth
Sevententh
Fiveteenth
Nintieth
Fortieth
Secend
Eightth
Nineth
Tenth
First

Twenty-eighth
fifteenth
Eighth
Twenty-fifth

Second
Seventeenth
Ninetieth
Ninth
Listen and write
 Exercise 1: Listen and write down the numbers you
hear. Write the number in WORDS

fourth first fifth third

ninth seventh eighteenth fortieth
fiftieth ninetieth twentieth thirty-second
forty-fourth fifty-third one hundredth
 Tan Phan
0909 090 909
1 floor Anna Building
st

111
 Jeremy Martial
David
051 301
0811 684402
562
6 floor
th
24thViendong
floor
Building 603
 Yu Yi Ling
0898 870 719
5th floor ACB
Building 503
Lucy Prescott
012 338 9910
Jonas Hermingway
098 774 806
Listen and circle
Decimal fractions
 The “0” has two names:
 Naught – Nought
 Oh

 Numbers before the point are said normally

 Numbers after the point are said by itself
Common mistake
- Decimal separator: “Dot” or “Comma”

- Vietnamese: decimal is comma, and thousand is dot.

 1 234 567,89
 1.234.567,89
- The United Kingdom & the United States:
 1,234,567.89
practice

 0.23  45,000.23
◦ Oh point twenty-three
 1.78  1,900,254.354
◦ One point seventy-eight
 13.145  3,000,000,000.4387

 453.1021

 1,200.36542
Practice
exercise 1

3.9 5.2
3.5 4.2
2.005 2.009
1.006 2.001
0.008 1.001
Note
Percentage %
 In some cases, people use percentage to express as if
it is part of a total which is 100
 The “percent” is said after the number
 25% twenty five percent
 50% fifty percent
 We can use % with decimals:
 7.02% seven point oh two percent
 0.51% naught point five one percent
 Practice
exercise 2

Consumers Expenditure 1983(%) 1993(%)

Food 15.1 11.4
Alcoholic drink 7.1 6
Tobacco 3.3 2.7
Housing 15.1 15.4
Recreation, entertainment and 9.2 10.1
education
Other goods and services 13.5 19.4