Ex.9. Use the numbers as adjectives. Be attentive with all the necessary changes.

Complete the sentences, using the words in brackets in the correct form. The first two sentences have been done for you.

Ex.7. Read the sentences aloud.

Ex.6. Compare and read the following numbers out.

1. 3,141 and 3.141

2. 15.001 and 15,001

3. 26.012 and 26,012

4. 1.125 and 1,125

5. 7,010 and 7.010

6. 2.012; 2,212; the year 2012

7. 1.917; 1,917; the year 1917

8. 21.019 and 21,019

 

1. The most common item of lost property on London transport is the umbrella. 23,250 umbrellas were handed in to London transport lost property offices last year.

2. The country with the most telephones in the world is Monaco. It has 733 telephones per 1 000 population.

3. The smallest country in the world is the Vatican City with an area of 1.14 square kilometres and a population of 826.

4. We opened our new office on 5 April, 2000.

5. Visits to our website have increased to 82,000 daily. We now have over 400,000 regular users.

6. Sales increased from €5m to €5.8m. And we expect to increase our sales target by at least 50% and become the leading on-line designer clothing company.

7. We can usually offer a discount of 1/3 off the list price.

8. $1,000,000? But that’s over €1,090,000!

9. For more information, call free phone 0800 521 382.

10. You can also fax on 1569 242 677.

11. Call me at the office. You can usually catch me there after 8.30.

12. It takes me 3/4 of an hour to walk to the office.

13. 14% of land is privately owned, which is a small percentage.

14. It’s either 0.431 or 4.031, I can’t remember.

15. No, it’s 14,236, not 14.236!

 

Ex.8. A hundred, one hundred, or hundreds of?

1. I’ve told you __________ times. (hundred) - I’ve told you a hundred times. (which means ‘many times’)

2. I still have ______things to do. (thousand) – I still have a thousand things to do.

3. __________ refugees are flooding into the neighbouring country. (thousand)

4. We’re prepared to sell the item for a sum of __________ pounds. (hundred)

5. He wants __________ dollars for his car. (thousand)

6. I’ve heard that excuse __________ times. (million)

7. There were only half __________ people at the party. (dozen)

8. We received __________ of applications for the job. (hundred)

9. Wow! You look like __________ dollars tonight! (million)

10. Los Angeles has a population of over three __________ . (million)

1. forty five minutes, alesson – aforty-five-minutelesson

2. two hours, a trip – atwo-hour trip

3. twenty minutes, a walk – _________________________

4. seventy-five dollars, a price cut – ___________________

5. twelve weeks, a semester – ________________________

6. twenty degrees, a fall in temperature – _______________

7. twenty thousand pounds, a car – ____________________

8. forty thousands, a loan – __________________________

9. fifteen percent, a discount – ________________________

10. ten tons, a truck – ______________________________

Ex.10. Samantha Baretti has just returned to the office after her marketing trip to Malaysia. She turns on the answer phone and hears the following messages.Complete her notes in a numerical form.

Marketing meeting scheduled for the tenth of April at two o’clock in room three. Expected to last two hours. Please confirm you can attend by phoning extension sixty-five, double six.

Marketing meeting on ______ at ______. in ______ . Call ext. ______ .

New shelving for your office to be delivered on the eleventh of March after ten o’clock. Dimensions are four point five metres wide, two point eight metres in length and forty centimetres deep. Please ring two six two seven three one if this time is not convenient.

Delivery on ______ after ______ . Dimensions: ______ . Ring ______ .

 

Don’t understand your marketing expenses. Your receipts are for one hundred and fifty pounds, five hundred euros, one thousand fifty Indonesian rupiahs, and seven thousand four hundred and sixty Malaysian ringgits. This does not convert to eight hundred sixteen pounds. Please ring accounts.

Marketing receipts: _____________________________________________

 

Ex.11. List your three biggest monthly expenses. Say how much you spend each month on rent, food, shopping, transportation, and/or entertainment.

 

Ex.12. Ask each member of your mini-group about their expenses. Compare group averages. You can start your questions in the following way:

A: Susan, how much do you spend on __________ (telephone, electricity, room payment, food, entertainment)?

B: Oh, I spend about __________ . What about you?

C: Nothing, I live with my parents but every month I spend _______ on _______.