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24 twenty - five 26
7 eight 8
column The table has two columns: a column for "words" and a 19 twenty 21
column for "meanings" 66 sixty-seven 68
49 fifty 51
D Abbreviations and symbols (Page12) 118 a/one hundred and nineteen 120
243 two hundred and fourty-four 245
OPP opposite, Old is the opposite of young . 999 a/one thousand 1,001
SYN synonym: a word that means the same as another word, e.g. small 5,055 five thousand and fifty-six 5,057
= little 11,300 eleven thousand three hundred and one 11,302
INF informal: If a word or phrase is informal, you use it when you are
speaking to friends or people you know very well. The opposite is 3 Write the number in words using about
formal. If a word or phrase is formal, you use it at important and
serious times with people you don´t know very well, or in written sixty-eight people about seventy people
English. ninety-seven euros about a/one hundred euros
etc you use etc. at the end of a list to show there are other things, but nine students about ten students
you aren´t going to say them all. thirty-one years about thirty years
e.g. for example: Fruit, e.g. apples and bananas. four hundred and ninety about five hundred
u uncountable noun. These nouns have no plural form and can´t be one thousand nine hundred and ninety about two thousand
used with a or an . seventy-eight people about eighty people
PT past tense ( past simple form of an irregular verb) two hundred and forty-nine thousand about two hundred and fifty thousand
PP past participle nine hundred and eight thousand about one million
2 I can tell the time
What´s the time?
A Telling the time
What time is it?
04:15 It´s quarter past four. 06:20 It´s twenty past six.
It´s four fifteen. It´s six twenty.
Use minutes with to and past when the number of minutes is not five, ten,
fifteen, twenty or twenty-five, e.g. three minutes past six NOT three past six
5
About your country. Write your answers or ask another student.
(Answers from a British person)
1 When do banks open in your country?
They open at nine a.m.
2 Do they close at midday?
No, they don´t
3 What time do shops close?
They close at half past five in the afternoon, and at seven p.m. on Thursdays
( Cierran a las cinco y media de la tarde, y a las siete p.m. los jueves )
4 What time do bars open?
They open at about eleven in the morning
(Abren alrededor de las 11 de la mañana)
5 What time do they close?
They close at different times. Some close at about midnight.
6 What do post offices open and close?
They open at nine a.m. and close at half past five in the afternoon