1. Listening skills
March 19, 2014

2. Today
Listening strategies & listening for details: Numbers

3. Listening for details: Test/Quiz situation
Look at your work sheet. What information could you use on this page to help you with listening?

5. Numbers 1
2,000,300
9,999,999,999,999
500 %
450,000

6. English number system hundreds 1 2 3 4 5… EASY!
… …still easy!
100
Has 3 digits (numbers)
hundreds
…900

7. English number system Hundreds 150 = 100 + 50 one hundred fifty
150 =
one hundred fifty
935 =
nine hundred thirty-five
- Look at first digit, then at the other two digits.

8. English number system thousands
1,000 3,000 5,000 8,000 Has 3 digits AFTER the comma (4 – 6 digits total) 2,500 = 2, two thousand five hundred

9. English number system thousands 1,000 3,000 5,000 8,000
1, , , ,000
Has 3 digits AFTER the comma (4 – 6 digits total)
10,000 = ?
Look at the number of digits LEFT of the comma.
100,000 = ?

10. English number system millions
1,000,000 4,000,000 9,000,000 Has 6 digits AFTER the first comma (7 – 9 digits total) 10,000,000 = ? 100,000,000 = ?

11. English number system billions
1,000,000,000 4,000,000,000 9,000,000,000 Has 9 digits AFTER the first comma (10 – 12 digits total) 10,000,000,000 = ? 100,000,000,000 = ? 1,000,000,000,000 = 1 trillion

12. English number system
What are these numbers? 4, ,000,000 25, 000,000 88, ,000,000, ,000 1,000,000,000,000

13. English number system Write these numbers as digits:
Five billion - 5,000,000,000
Three hundred fifty thousand ,000
Seven thousand eight hundred – 7,800
Forty-four million – 44,000,000
Six million four hundred thousand – 6, 400,000
Nine point three million – 9,300,000

14. “:Point”
12, 300, million 456,800,000, billion 12,030, million

15. English number system
1. 6,700
2. 45, 000,000
3. 223,000
4. 8, 000,000,000
5. 19,000
6. 89, 500
7. 720,000,000
8. 92,340,110,000

16. Numbers
What are some situations where numbers are important? - Money - Demographics (i.e., population) - Research

17. Numbers
Hearing numbers can be difficult until you have a lot of practice with them. To help you understand numbers that you are hearing , you can use inference. - Use the context and any background knowledge you have to help understand numbers you hear.

18. Numbers - Inference Example: Prices (in won) - Hyundai Sonata
Source:

19. Numbers - Inference Example: Population - Shanghai 13,000,000 1,000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
10,000,000
100,000,000
1,000,000,000

20. Numbers - Inference Example: Research Adult obesity rate in America
Rate usually = percentage (%)
The number will not be over 100.
35.7%

21. Macbook air
1,250,000 won

22. 6,900 won

23. Homework
From tonight, check the website “Homework” section. Download the assignment page and listen to the audio clip. Answer the questions. Deadline: Friday (in class)