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Lec-2 Saying Dates and Numbers in English

The document provides guidance on how to say dates, numbers, fractions, ratios, percentages, and calculations in English. Dates can be said with the day before the month or vice versa, and ordinal numbers should be used. Years up to 2000 are said by separating the numbers into pairs. Large numbers are divided into hundreds and thousands, using 'and' for smaller additional numbers. Common fractions, ratios and percentages are also explained.

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Lec-2 Saying Dates and Numbers in English

The document provides guidance on how to say dates, numbers, fractions, ratios, percentages, and calculations in English. Dates can be said with the day before the month or vice versa, and ordinal numbers should be used. Years up to 2000 are said by separating the numbers into pairs. Large numbers are divided into hundreds and thousands, using 'and' for smaller additional numbers. Common fractions, ratios and percentages are also explained.

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Saying dates and numbers in English

Dates

We can say dates either with the day before the month, or the month before the day:
The first of January / January the first.
Remember to use ordinal numbers for dates.
(The first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the twenty-second, the thirty-first etc.)

Years

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

For this decade, you need to say ―two thousand and —-ǁ in British English: 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)
If the number includes a smaller number, use ―andǁ in British English: 450,000 = four hundred
and fifty thousand
400,360 = four hundred thousand and three hundred and sixty

Fractions, ratios and percentages


1⁄2 = one half
1/3 = one third
1⁄4 = one quarter
1/5 = one fifth
1/ 6 = one sixth etc
3/5 = three fifths
1.5% = one point five percent
0.3% =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

Talking about calculations

+ (plus)
2 + 1 = 3 (two plus one equals 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)

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