UNIT 2 Numbers

LESSON 2 TELEPHONE & ADDRESS

1. WHAT'S YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER?
ITS ________________________

SPECIAL NOTES:
USE O OR ZERO
TWO NUMBERS DOUBLE
THREE NUMBERS TRIPLE

2. WHAT'S YOUR ADDRESS?

ITS _NUMBER + STREET
CITY , COUNTY, STATE, COUNTRY
ZIP CODE / POSTCODE
SPECIAL NOTES:
NUMBER COMES BEFORE STREET IN ENGLISH CUSTOM.
NO NEED TO SAY NUMBER IN NUMERICAL FORM, YOU CAN READ IT LIKE ANY TELEPHONE NUMBER
EG : 1050 MAIN STREET = TEN FIFTY MAIN STREET, ONE OFIVE O

LESSON 4 AGE
1. HOW OLD ARE YOU?
I AM _________ YEARS OLD.

WE ALWAYS USE THE VERB TO BE FOR AGE. NOT HAVE!

2. HOW OLD IS YOUR MOTHER?
_____________________________________________________________________
3. HOW OLD IS YOUR FATHER?
_____________________________________________________________________

LESSON 5 ORDINAL NUMBERS

Just add th to the cardinal number:
four - fourth
eleven - eleventh
Exceptions:
one - first
two - second
three - third
five - fifth
eight - eighth
nine - ninth
twelve - twelfth
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
second = 2nd
third = 3rd
fourth = 4th
twenty-sixth = 26th
hundred and first = 101st
WHY DO WE USE ORDINAL NUMBERS?
TO SHOW THE ORDER/SEQUENCE OF NUMBERS
AND IN 1 PRINCIPAL SITUATION - DATES

ENGLISH - 1 JANUARY 2015

= THE FIRST OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN

AMERICAN - JANUARY 1, 2015

= JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN

3 MAY 2015
THE THIRD OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN
5 MAY 2015
THE FIFTH OF MAY TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN
25 DECEMBER 2015
THE TWENTY FIFTH OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN
31 DECEMBER 2015
THE THIRTY FIRST OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN
20 APRIL 2015
THE TWENTIETH OF APRIL TWO THOUSAND AND FIFTEEN

1. WHEN IS YOUR BIRTHDAY?

MY BIRTHDAY IS ON _______________________________________________________________
SPECIAL NOTE
WE ALSO USE CARDINAL NUMBERS FOR centuries + fractions

18TH CENTURY / 20TH CENTURY

1/3 ONE THIRD, 3/7 THREE SEVENTHS
: ONE FOURTH OR ONE QUARTER, 1/2 ONE HALF

LESSON 6 PLURALS
End of noun

SINGULAR

PLURAL

RULES

Most nouns

bottle cup pencil desk

bottles cups
pencils desks

For the plural form of most nouns, + s

PRONOUNCIATION-Z (voiced sounds)
PRONOUNCIATION-S (non voiced)

consonant + y

baby country

babies
countries

PLURAL: change y to i + es

vowel + y

toy key

toys keys

PLURAL: +s (no change)

consonant + o

Potato Tomato

potatoes

PLURAL: + es
PRONOUNCIATION- EZ

vowel+ o

PLURAL: +s no change

Zoo Radios

PRONOUNCIATION- EZ
f or fe

wolf wife leaf life

wolves, wives, PLURAL: change f to v + es

leaves, lives
PRONOUNCIATION- EZ

ch, x, s, or s
sounds

box watch moss bus

PLURAL: + es
boxes,
watches,
PRONOUNCIATION- EZ
mosses, buses

5 Irregular Plurals!! Important!

child

person

woman

man

foot

tooth

mouse

children

people

women

men

feet

teeth

mice

A few nouns dont change for plural forms

fish
sheep

deer

Choose the correct form of the noun in each sentence.

1) She has three (child, children).
2) There are five (man, men) and one (woman, women).
3) There are few (bus, buses) on the road today.

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