H1D January 12

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English Lesson January 12

Lesson January 11

Lesson goals: 

I know when to use much/many/a little / a few

I know more about the news and I can talk about it

Watch Newsround. Write down three different news items

Check homework

Check definitions page 33 - 43-70

Questions homework?

Quizlet Live on page 32 and 33

Numbers cardinal / ordinal

Cardinal numbers

says how many there are of something

Example: There are two girls.

Cardinal is counting

Numbers cardinal / ordinal

Ordinal numbers

tells us the position of something in a list

Example: Washington was the first president of the USA

Ordinal explains the order

Extra information

- after twenty you have to add a hypen (-) between twenty and the following number (twenty-one, thirty-five etc.)

- Making ordinals up to 20: normally add -th after the cardinal number: eleventh, nineteenth (except 1,2 and 3, 9, 12)

- Making ordinals from 20: use the cardinal for twenty, thirty etc. and then add the ordinal number: twenty-first.

Also irregular are:

twentieth

thirtieth

fortieth

fiftieth

sixtieth

seventieth

eightieth

ninetieth

one hundredth

Making abbreviations

If you want to make an abbreviation of the ordinal, you have to write the cardinal number + the last two numbers of the ordinal number

Examples:

1st

6th

13th

Write down the ordinal number for 12

Write down 24 in letters (cardinal number)

Write down the ordinal for 18

Write down the abbreviation of eighty-seventh

Do you have questions on this grammar?

To do + homework:

Make definitions: 71 - 80 page 33

Learnbeat: Unit 3 - Reading -  Choose  one of the texts. Read and do the assignments

Do exercise 9 page 41