Numbers
There are two main types of numbers:
Cardinal Numbers - 1 (one), 2 (two) etc. (Used mainly for
counting)
Ordinal Numbers - 1st (first), 2nd (second) etc. (Used
mainly for putting things in a sequence)
Cardinal Numbers
Cardinal numbers are normally used when you:
count things: I have two brothers. There are thirty-one days
in January.
give your age: I am thirty-three years old. My sister is
twenty-seven years old.
give your telephone number: Our phone number is
two-six-three, three-eight-four-seven. (481-2240)
give years: She was born in nineteen seventy-five (1975).
America was discovered in fourteen ninety-two
Notice how we divide the year into two parts. This is the
form for year up to 1999. For the year 2000 and on, we say two thousand (2000),
two thousand and one (2001), two thousand and two (2002) etc.
Ordinal Numbers
You can normally create Ordinal numbers by adding -TH to the
end of a Cardinal Number.
Ordinal numbers are normally used when you:
give a date: My birthday is on the 27th of January. (Twenty-seventh
of January)
put things in a sequence or order: Liverpool came second in
the football league last year.
give the floor of a building: His office is on the tenth
floor.
have birthdays: He had a huge party for his twenty-first
birthday.
Do you know In American usage, four-digit numbers with
non-zero hundreds are often named using multiples of "hundred" and
combined with tens and ones: "One thousand one", "Eleven hundred
three", "Twelve hundred twenty-five", "Four thousand
forty-two", or "Ninety-nine hundred ninety-nine." In British
usage, this style is common for multiples of 100 between 1,000 and 2,000 (e.g.
1,500 as "fifteen hundred") but not for higher numbers.
Americans may pronounce four-digit numbers with non-zero
tens and ones as pairs of two-digit numbers without saying "hundred"
and inserting "oh" for zero tens: "twenty-six fifty-nine"
or "forty-one oh five". This usage probably evolved from the
distinctive usage for years; "nineteen-eighty-one", or from
four-digit numbers used in the American telephone numbering system which were
originally two letters followed by a number followed by a four-digit number,
later by a three-digit number followed by the four-digit number. It is avoided
for numbers less than 2500 if the context may mean confusion with time of day:
"ten ten" or "twelve oh four".
Intermediate numbers are read differently depending on their
use. Their typical naming occurs when the numbers are used for counting.
Another way is for when they are used as labels. The second column method is
used much more often in American English than British English. The third column
is used in British English but rarely in American English (although the use of
the second and third columns is not necessarily directly interchangeable
between the two regional variants). In other words, British English and
American English can seemingly agree, but it depends on a specific situation
(in this example, bus numbers).
Know i will show you how to teach number in English
explain to the students the use of numbers in English
explain to the students about the types and
functions of numbers in English
ask the students to follow the teacher say ( numbers in English )
ask students to find a partner and memorizing numbers in English
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