Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers

Exercise 1
Write in letters:

102------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
256-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
547--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
985-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,874-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2,222-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5,685------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9,451------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Exercise 2
Write the ordinal number:
2 --------------------------------------------6 --------------------------------------
11 ------------------------------------------- 15 -------------------------------------
18 --------------------------------------------41 --------------------------------------
23 -------------------------------------------56 -------------------------------------
77 -------------------------------------------95 ------------------------------------

HOW DO WE SAY THE DATE IN ENGLISH?

First let’s revise some vocabulary! Be careful, these words all start with
capital letters!!

Exercise 3
Give the days of the week:

M-------------T---------------W----------------T-----------
F-------------- S---------------S-----------------

Exercise 4
Give the months of the year:

J-------------F--------------M--------------A----------------
M-------------J-------------J---------------A----------------
S--------------O-------------N--------------D---------------

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In English we write: “Thursday 7th November 2013” and we say:
Thursday, the seventh of November 2013
“Monday 2nd September 2013” Monday, the second of
September 2013

To answer the question: When were you born?

We say: I was born ON the Twenty- second of July…
We use ON before the date
As for the YEARS:
The years before 2000 are said in groups of two numbers
1789 : 17 89 seventeen eighty- nine
1956: 19 56 nineteen fifty-six
From 2000 to 2010 we use usual numbers
2001 two thousand and one
2002 two thousand and two
but from 2010 on we can hear both possibilities:
2010 two thousand and ten or twenty ten
The 2012 London Olympic games the Twenty twelve Olympic
games

Exercise 5
Write the following years in figures:
1. nineteen ninety-eight--------------------------------------------------------
2. eighteen sixty-two ----------------------------------------------------------
3. seventeen eighty-two---------------------------------------------------------
4. fifteen fifteen--------------------------------------------------------------
5. nineteen seventy- two--------------------------------------------------------

Exercise 6
Write the years in letters:

1. 1945-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. 1824------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. 1789------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. 1615------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. 1997------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6. 2003-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 Exercise 7
How would you read these dates?

1. Thursday 7th April 2008

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2. Monday 12th June 1986
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3. Wednesday 1st August 2001
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4. Sunday 8th January 2012

Exercise 8
Write the cardinal and the ordinal numbers as indicated
below:

13
19
21
9
33
44
59
40
80
102
510
1517
100.000
4500
450.000
2020
1907
1.999.742