7. What is the ordinal number which corresponds to the cardinal number ten?

8. What is the ordinal number which corresponds to the cardinal number

fifteen?
9. Do most streets in the United States have names or numbers?
10. Which is often more easy to locate, a street with a name or a street with a
number?
11. Which do you prefer, streets with names or streets with numbers?
12. What are some of the famous avenues in New York City? What are some of
the famous streets?

Exercise
Today Mr. Smith says that he wants to teach us the ordinal numbers. “The ordinal
I was busy yesterday. I wasn't busy yesterday. You were in school yesterday. You
numbers are easy to learn in English,”
weren’t in school yesterday. John was with me at the movie last night. John wasn’t
he says. “We already know the words first, second, and third because we studied
with me at the movie last night. We were together. We weren’t together. John and
them in an earlier lesson. Now, what is the ordinal number in English which
Mary were together. They weren’t together.
corresponds to the cardinal number four?"
John said he could go with us, but Mary said she couldn’t go. Could Helen speak
“Fourth.”
English when she came to the United States? She could speak a few words of English
“Very good, John. And what is the ordinal number which corresponds to the number
but she could not speak well.
five?"
(Give only negative answers to the following.)
“Fifth.”
1. Were you at the movies with John last night?
“Very good. It is easy to form the ordinal numbers above five because we simply add
2. Could John speak English well when he began to study in your class?
th to the cardinal number — for example, six, sixth, seven, seventh, eight, eighth,
3. Was yesterday Wednesday?
etc.”
4. Was Mr. Smith busy when you spoke to him in his office?
“Do they use the ordinal numbers very often in English?” asks one of the students.
5. Were you at the lesson yesterday?
“More often, I believe, than in Spanish,” says Mr. Smith. “For example, in English one
6. Were John and Mary at the lesson yesterday?
says. ‘I live on 72nd Street’ or ‘The Momingside School is on 114th Street.’ ”
7. Why couldn’t you come to the lesson yesterday?
“Do the streets in the United States generally have numbers, Mr. Smith, instead of
8. Why couldn’t John come to the lesson yesterday?
names?”
9. Why couldnt you prepare your homework last night?
“No, I think most streets have names rather than numbers. But in large cities where
10. Were all the students present in class today?
there are many, many streets if it is sometimes simpler to use numbers.”
11. Do you find the ordinal numbers easy or difficult to remember?
“The streets in New York City have numbers, don’t they, Mr. Smith?”
12. Do you find it easy or difficult to pronounce English words correctly?
“Yes, both the streets and the avenues have numbers, in New York City. The avenues,
13. What is the ordinal number in English which corresponds to the cardinal
for example, are First Avenue, Second Avenue, Third Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Fifth
number seventeen?
Avenue, Sixth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, Eighth Avenue, and so forth. There are, of
14. Do we generally have streets with numbers in large cities or in small cities?
course, hundreds of streets, 42nd Street, 86th Street, 99th Street, 116th Street,
15. Is New York City a large city or a small city?
210th Street, etc.”
16. Does New York City have many streets with names or streets with numbers?
1. Count by ordinal numbers from one to ten. 17. What is the advantage of having streets with numbers rather than streets
2. What is the first month of the year? The fourth month? The eleventh month? with names?
3. Which lesson in this book did we study yesterday, the twelfth or the thirteenth? 18. What is the date today?
4. Are the ordinal numbers in English easy or difficult to learn? 19. What was the date yesterday?
5. Do we use the ordinal numbers seldom or often in English? 20. When is your birthday
6. What is the ordinal number which corresponds to the cardinal number five?