1.1 B Understanding announcements - Grammar: numerals

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Chapter 1 - Listening

1.1 Understanding announcements

GOALS

- listening: the history of numerical systems 

- you can say and write numbers (numerals) in English

- listening: announcements 

Grammar

numerals 

hoofdtelwoorden

13 - thirteen

14 - fourteen

15 - fifteen

20 - twenty

30 - thirty

40 - forty

50 - fifty

grote getallen

- verbindingsstreepje na tientallen

sixty-eight

a voor honderd, duizend en hoger (a hundred/one hundred)

- and tussen honderdtal en tiental

three hundred AND twenty-six

115,075: one hundred and fifteen thousand and seventy-five

miljoen - million

miljard - billion

biljoen - trillion

biljard - quadrillion

punten en komma's

KOMMA als scheidingsteken (voor leesbaarheid)

NL 1.000 = 1,000

PUNT om decimalen aan te geven (NL: getal achter de komma)

NL 5,5 = 5.5

. . . keer

once , twice, three times, four times

rangtelwoorden

first

second

third

. . . -th 

fourth,  twelfth (twelve), fiftieth (fifty)

correct

wrong

fiveth

hundred thousand

three-and-thirty

fifty-fourd

threeteen

forty

teighty

elven

five-twenty

a milliard

sevendst

Listening

- Exercise: 1 and 2: Announcements on a plane, an airport, a train station or a department store

THEORY exercise 1 + 2

NU Engels 1.1

- Do exercise 3 + grammar 16, 

extra grammar 16 

exercise 5 (on paper)