A World of Mystery English Toolkit 1 - Business Administration We all know that numbers are an important part of our lives.. When speaking of hundreds, thousands and millions, we have to
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We all know that numbers are an important part
of our lives Now we are going to learn how to
talk about numbers in charts, tables and graphs
and how to differentiate the way we express
decimals, fractions and percentages
First, let’s give numbers their complete names:
cardinal numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and so
on; ordinal numbers: 1st (first), 2nd (second),
3rd (third), 4th (fourth), 67th (sixty-seventh),
95th (ninety-fifth) and so on; even numbers: the
ones that can be divided by 2 such as 2, 4, 6,
8, 12; odd numbers: the ones not divisible by 2,
such as 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 27
When speaking of hundreds, thousands and
millions, we have to remember that there is
a difference between British and American
English; for example, in British English you
use the word and between hundreds and tens
Thus, 759 is read: seven hundred and fifty-nine, 425 is read: four hundred and twenty-five, 1368 is read: one thousand, three hundred and sixty-eight In American English you don’t use the word and
Another important difference is the word
billion In British English, a billion used to be twelve zeros after the number, that is to say:
1,000,000,000,000 In many countries we say that a billion is ten to the power of twelve (1012) But now, due to business transactions and globalisation in general, it is very common
to think of billions in the American usage, that
is, ten to the power of nine (109), thus 12 billion
is 12,000,000,000
In some cases, it is easier to understand numerical information if it is given in a graphic representation, as in:
Numerical Data
a pie chart
2 Use figures.
a Three hundred and four:
b Twenty-two thousand, eight hundred and
eleven:
c Eight hundred and eighteen:
Activities
1 Classify these numbers according to the categories given in the text.
a 8:
b 3rd:
c 2, 4, 6, 8:
d 3, 7, 9, 11:
d Five thousand, seven hundred and
sixteen:
e Four hundred and thirteen:
e 1,000:
f 100:
g 2,000,000:
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5 8
6 9
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3 Give an example of
a …an even number:
b …an ordinal number:
c …an odd number:
d …a number to the power of nine:
e …a number to the power of twelve:
4 Read the text and answer the questions.
5 Write the number references in the sentences like in the example.
6 Read this information It is based on a survey about people
who read the newspaper Then write the corresponding
numbers and frequency in a graph.
Out of a hundred people
interviewed about how often
they read the newspaper:
25 answered ‘every day’
10 answered ‘never’
15 answered ‘sometimes’
50 answered ‘on Sundays’
a What kind of number representations are mentioned in the text?
b How can you identify odd numbers?
c Which numbers indicate order?
d What difference is there between English and American English when
speaking of hundreds, thousands, millions and billions?
a I paid eleven dollars fifty cents for these sunglasses.
b Thirty eight percent of the people said that they spend one third of the salaries on
services
c The office is comfortable; it is two metres wide and three metres long, that is, six
square metres
d Electric cars will be common by the year two thousand and twenty
e The hotel room number was two-oh-eight; the first part of the number indicates the
floor and the final part indicates the room
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