1. Radio English Practical English 2 (70433)

2. Alphabet Numerals Speaking Drills

3. Alphabet Why is there a special alphabet? ▫Because some letters sound too similar ▫Over the radio it’s more difficult to hear the slight differences between some letters Examples: B vs VG vs Z D vs TM vs N F vs S

4. The Alphabet LETTERPHONETICLETTERPHONETICLETTERPHONETIC AALFAJJULIETTSSIERRA BBRAVOKKILOTTANGO CCHARLIELLIMAUUNIFORM DDELTAMMIKEVVICTOR EECHONNOVEMBERWWHISKEY FFOXTROTOOSCARXX-RAY GGOLFPPAPAYYANKEE HHOTELQQUEBECZZULU IINDIARROMEO

5. Let’s go through the alphabet a few times

6. Numerals (FIGURES) NumeralSpoken asNumeralSpoken as 0ZEE-ROH5FIFE 1WUN6SIX 2TOO7SEV-UN 3TREE8AIT 4FOW-ER9NINE-ER

7. More Numerals (FIGURES) FigureSpoken as 44FOW-ER 500FIFE ZE-ROH ZE-ROH 7000SEV-UN ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZE-ROH (or SEV-UN TOU-SAND) Notice: no H in thousand  TOU-SAND 16,000WUN SIX ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZE-ROH (or WUN-SIX TOUSAND) 14,899WUN FOW-ER AIT NINE-ER NINE-ER 123.6WUN-TOO-TREE DAY-SEE-MAL SIX

8. Telling Time Always send date time groups (DTGs) digit-by- digit, preceded by the proword TIME: This DTG means June 08, 2012, at 2 pm, Zulu time zone (Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)). 081400Z JUN 12TIME - ZE-ROH AIT WON FOW- ER ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZOO-LOO JUNE WUN TOO

9. Let’s go through the numerals (FIGURES) a few times

10. Next week: PROWORDS (Appendix B)