Curso de Inglés Avanzado Lección 5

Look at the following ways of expressing numbers and proportions and match them with the term on the right.

1. 45%
2. 1 in 13 million
3. 1/15
4. 1:20
5. 1,103
6. 0.35

Check your answers.

Listen and repeat the figures.

Now listen and write the figures you hear. Follow the example.

1. About of the earth's original forest remains.
2. Last year the total income of retail chain Wal-Mart was .
3. It takes kg of prehistoric buried plant material to produce litres of petrol.
4. of men who died of heart failure during intercourse turned out to have been cheating on their wives.
5. The ratio of female to male bloggers on the Internet is .
6. in every computers are Macs.
7. If you were in India, there would be people just like you.
8. of American adults cannot work out a discount on a price, even using a calculator!
9. The ratio of a typical salary of a paid gladiator in ancient Rome to the salary of a doctor or lawyer is
10. A kiss that lasts for minute burns calories.

Check your answers.

Listen and write some sentences that contain numbers, dates and times. Write the sentences in the spaces.
Use your media player to repeat them if you need to.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.

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Listen again and repeat the sentences.

Three hundred and seventy-two
Tuesday (the) thirteenth (of) September (UK)
60 million (not ~~millions~~ – no 'S')
naught point two seven five

0 = zero (US)
0 = naught(UK)

Write the following numbers in full. Follow the examples.

Examples: 7.4%
July 2nd 2003

1. 9.75%
2. April 13th 2004. 2:35 AM
3. $125.95
4. 2014
5. 8.4%
6. €472.5 million
7. $2.8 million
8. 5 2/3

Listen to check.

Check your answers.

Listen again and repeat the figures.