Grados en Periodismo / Información y Documentación - UEX

Inglés 2019-2020 – UNIT I.2

UNIT I.2 – PERSONAL DETAILS

Answer the following questions

1. When were you born?

2. What’s your email address?
3. How much do you weigh?
4. How tall are you?

1. Dates

British English
They use the sequence day/ month/ year
e.g. 27- 01- 89 the twenty-seventh of January nineteen eighty-nine

1. He was born on the thirtieth of May nineteen ninety-two.

2. Today is the fifteenth of March twenty nineteen.

American English

They use the sequence month/ day/ year

e.g. 01-27-89 – January the twenty-seventh nineteen eighty-nine

1. He was born on March the thirtieth nineteen ninety-two.

2. Today is March the fifteenth twenty nineteen.

Years

 Years are usually divided into two parts:

1935 –nineteen thirty-five

1800- eighteen hundred
1607- sixteen oh seven

 Years at the beginning of the twenty-first century (the noughties) are said as a whole number:

2003- two thousand and three

2009- two thousand and nine.

 Decades:

1900s The nineteen hundreds (from 1900 till 1909); 2010s The twenty tens
1920s The nineteen twenties (1920-29)

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Ordinal numbers

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/numbers/ordinal

Table of Ordinal Numbers

1st first 21st twenty-first 31st thirty-first

2nd second 22nd twenty-second 40 th fortieth
3rd third 23rd twenty-third 50 th fiftieth
4th fourth 24th twenty-fourth 60 th sixtieth
5th fifth 25th twenty-fifth 70 th seventieth
6th sixth 26th twenty-sixth 80 th eightieth
7th seventh 27th twenty-seventh 90 th ninetieth
8th eighth 28th twenty-eighth 100 th one hundredth
9th ninth 29th twenty-ninth 1,000 th one thousandth
10th tenth 30th thirtieth 1,000,000 th one millionth

Form (Spelling of Ordinal Numbers)

Just add th to the cardinal number:

• four - fourth
• eleven - eleventh

Exceptions:

• one - first • nine - ninth

• five - fifth
• two – second • twelve - twelfth
• eight - eighth
• three - third

In compound ordinal numbers, note that only the last figure is written as an ordinal number:

• 421st = four hundred and twenty-first

• 5,111th = five thousand one hundred and eleventh

Figures

When expressed as figures, the last two letters of the written word are added to the ordinal number:

 first = 1st  fourth = 4th

 second = 2nd  twenty-sixth = 26th
 third = 3rd  two hundred and first = 201st

Titles

In names for kings and queens, ordinal numbers are written in Roman numbers. In spoken English, the
definite article is used before the ordinal number:

• Charles II - Charles the Second

• Edward VI - Edward the Sixth
• Henry VIII - Henry the Eighth

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Cardinal numbers
Table of Cardinal Numbers
1 one 11 eleven 21 twenty-one 31 thirty-one
2 two 12 twelve 22 twenty-two 40 forty
3 three 13 thirteen 23 twenty-three 50 fifty
4 four 14 fourteen 24 twenty-four 60 sixty
5 five 15 fifteen 25 twenty-five 70 seventy
6 six 16 sixteen 26 twenty-six 80 eighty
7 seven 17 seventeen 27 twenty-seven 90 ninety
8 eight 18 eighteen 28 twenty-eight 100 a/one hundred
9 nine 19 nineteen 29 twenty-nine 1,000 a/one thousand
10 ten 20 twenty 30 thirty 1,000,000 a/one million

1. Whole numbers
A comma is used to separate millions, thousands and hundreds into groups of three figures

e.g. 4,567,890 (four million five hundred and sixty-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety)
2,001 (two thousand and one)
10, 234,007 (ten million two hundred and thirty-four thousand and seven)

100,000 a hundred thousand / one hundred thousand (cien mil)

1,000,000 a million / one million (un millón)
1,000,000,000 a billion / one billion (mil millones)
1,000,000,000,000 a trillion /one trillion (un billón)

 Hundred, thousand, million and trillion have no ‘s’ when they are part of a number
 As nouns they take the plural form: hundreds of books but three hundred books

2. Decimal numbers
A point is used to show decimal figures.

a) Abstract numbers:
 The decimal point separates a whole number and a decimal.
 After the decimal point numbers are read one at a time.
e.g. 0.128 (nought point one two eight)
315.013 (three hundred and fifteen point oh one three)

b) Money and measurements:

The decimal number is read as a whole number.
e.g. $54.69 (fifty-four dollars sixty-nine cents)
1.75 metres (one meter seventy-five centimetres)

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2. Email addresses

dash ( ― ) at ( @ ) dot ( . ) (Internet)

hyphen ( - ) colon ( : ) full stop/period ( . ) (Tex)
underscore ( _ ) slash ( / ) point ( . ) (Numbers)

e.g. My email address is [email protected]

My email address is ana_ (underscore) perez (sixty-eight) @ (at) unex. (dot) es

3. Weight /weɪt/

Weight is measured in stone and pounds.

1 stone = 14 pounds
1pound ≈ 450g
1stone ≈6,350g

e.g. How much do you weigh?

I weigh nine stone ten pounds

4. Height /haɪt/

Height is measured in feet and inches.

1 foot = 12 inches
1inch =2.5 cm
1 foot ≈ 30 cm

e.g. How tall are you?

I am 5 feet 8 inches tall - (I am five eight)

Ask for the abbreviations used in the following table. Use the verb to STAND FOR

What does lb stand for?

e.g. What does L stand for? lb stands for libra
L stands for large
What does lb mean?
lb means pound

 L  M  S  ft  in  st  lb

DRESS HIPS HEIGHT WEIGHT

 S - 2  30”  4’3’’ (4ft 3in)  65 lb (pounds)

 M - 4  31” (feet/inches)  70 lb
 M/L - 6  32”  4’4’’  9 stone 4 pounds
 L - 8  33”  4’11’’  9 st 4 lb
 5’0’’

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Numbers

The numbers song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y

1. Punctuation with written numbers

 We use a comma to separate millions, thousands and hundreds into groups of three figures

$4,567,890 £1, 234,007 12,034€

 We use a point to show decimal figures

9.128 (nine point one two eight)

2. Numbers as adjectives. Write the sentences as in the examples

When we use the adjectival phrase:

a + (number) + (unit noun) + (head noun) the unit noun is singular not plural.

e.g. I want a bottle of two litres BUT I want a two-litre bottle

I taught for fifty minutes. It was a fifty-minute class
The term lasts four months. It is a four-month term

We had a coffee break:

We had a/one fifteen-minute coffee break
We had two coffee breaks:
We had two fifteen-minute coffee breaks

 I borrowed €3,000 from a bank. It was a €3,000 loan

 I have got £5. I’ve got a £5 note
 The car costs $12,000. It is a $12,000 car
 I’ve paid six lessons of two hours

Ask and answer the questions:

1. What course are you doing at the University?

2. How long is your degree course?

3. Which year are you in?

4. What’s your favourite subject?

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3. How to read numbers

Number 0 is always written 0 in English but said in different ways

3.1 Money: Watch the video and write the numbers as they are said

The true cost of living in New York city:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhULIcGLyDo

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