Cardinal and ordinal numbers Salvador Orquín IES Escola Industrial Sabadell
Cardinal numbers 10 TEN 11 ELEVEN 12 TWELVE 0 OH / ZERO 1 ONE 2 TWO 3 THREE 4 FOUR 5 FIVE 6 SIX 7 SEVEN 8 EIGHT 9 NINE 10 TEN 11 ELEVEN 12 TWELVE
Teen numbers 13 THIRTEEN 14 FOURTEEN 15 FIFTEEN 16 SIXTEEN 17 SEVENTEEN 18 EIGHTEEN 19 NINETEEN
TY numbers (tens) 20 TWENTY 30 THIRTY 40 FORTY 50 FIFTY 60 SIXTY 70 SEVENTY 80 EIGHTY 90 NINETY
Remember: My daughter is eighteen years old and her grandmother is eighty. 18 80
We write the tens and the units, separated by a hyphen. 21 TWENTY-ONE 32 THIRTY-TWO 55 FIFTY-FIVE 97 NINETY-SEVEN
100 ONE HUNDRED or A HUNDRED
After hundred you need and 108 A hundred and eight 213 Two hundred and thirteen 390 Three hundred and ninety 666 Six hundred and sixty-six
1000 A THOUSAND or ONE THOUSAND
After thousand you need a comma 1004 One thousand, four 1118 One thousand, one hundred and eighteen 3500 Three thousand, five hundred 6894 Six thousand, eight hundred and ninety-four
1000000 A MILLION or ONE MILLION
5000000 FIVE MILLION Millions IS WRONG
Listen to the numbers and repeat Learn English numbers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IusYGcbfCs&feature=related
Let’s write some numbers. 68 19 23 40 91 104 222 739 1215
…and 6430 12900 35827 115582 6941528
Ordinal numbers FIRST SECOND THIRD FOURTH FIFTH SIXTH SEVENTH EIGHTH NINTH TENTH Ordinal numbers ending: 1……..st 2……..nd 3……. rd Except: 11 eleventh 12 twelfth 13 thirteenth 21… st, 22..nd, 23..rd.. Others….. th
Ordinal numbers follow the same rule as cardinal numbers. 15th fifteenth 20th twentieth 21st twenty-first 22nd twenty-second 23rd twenty-third 24th twenty-fourth 32nd thirty-second 55th fifty-fifth 61st sixty-first
Ordinal numbers are used with dates Today is December 8 2009. We’ll say: ‘today is December the eighth two thousand nine.’ or ‘today is the eighth of December two thousand nine.’