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Spoken Numbers and Measurements

The document provides spoken and written versions of numbers and measurements. It includes examples such as dates, times, prices, reference numbers, scores, distances, percentages, temperatures, and currency conversions. The speaker is asked to read aloud several additional examples involving mathematical operations, dates, prices, phone numbers, populations, mixtures, and measurements.

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Spoken Numbers and Measurements

The document provides spoken and written versions of numbers and measurements. It includes examples such as dates, times, prices, reference numbers, scores, distances, percentages, temperatures, and currency conversions. The speaker is asked to read aloud several additional examples involving mathematical operations, dates, prices, phone numbers, populations, mixtures, and measurements.

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Roxana Cynfer
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SPOKEN NUMBERS AND MEASUREMENTS 1.- The sentences below are written as they World be spoken.

Rewrite them as they would normally be written, using numbers and abbreviated forms. Eg. I take a size fourteen and a half shirt. I take a size 14 shirt Ten per cent of the working population earn less than six thousand, five hundreds pounds a year 10% of the working population earn less than 6,500 a year. a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) Forty minus fifteen plus six is thirty-one Eight one divided by three is twenty-seven Three times six is eighteen. Queen Elizabeth the First reigned from fifteen fifty-eight to sixteen oh three. The show is due to commence at seven thirty p.m. on the second of August. It cost me six pounds seventy-five pence Phone me an time on four double-one four eight five oh. Please note that our reference number is double-four dash seven stroke five oh nine. i) The total cost is estimated at two million, four hundred and seventy-one thousand, eight hundred and fifty pounds. j) The mixture is two thirds water. k) A litre is one point seven six pins l) Twenty-two per cent of the candidates passed with distinction . m) The temperature was thirty degrees centigrade, that is eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit. n) It measures four feet two and three quarter inches by two feet eight and a half inches. o) France beat England three nil. (football) p) Brazil and Italy drew three all. (football) q) The score stands at thirty love to Becker. (tennis) 2.- Write out the following sentences exactly as they would be spoken, as in the exercise above. a) 73 + 20 43 = 50 b) 129 / 3 = 43 c) 4 x 21 = 84 d) Edward VII died in 1910. e) It was exactly 11:35 a.m. on 21st May. f) They cost 3.25 each. g) Our new phone number is 307 2201. h) Please quote reference no. 8/2-771. i) The population is 3,255,840. j) I am 1/8 French k) 1 mile=1.609 kilometres. l) It is 17.38% gold m) Waters freezes at 32F , ie 0C. n) The picture measured 26 x 58.

o) We won 3:0. (football) p) The final score was 2.2. (football) q) The scores 15:0 to me at the moment. (tennis) ANSWERS a) 40 15 + 6 = 31 b) 81 / 3 = 27 c) 3 x 6 = 18 d) Queen Elizabeth I reigned from 1558 to 1603. e) at 7:30 p.m. on August 2nd f) 6.75 g) on 4114850 h) is 44-7 / 509 i) estimated at 2,471.850 j) The mixture is 2/3 water. k) 1 litre = 1.76 pints l) 22% of the m) was 30C, ie 86F n) 42 x 28 o) 3:0 p) 3:3 q) 30:0 to Becker Exercise 2 a) Seventy-three plus twenty minus forty-three is fifthy.

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