How to read English numerals

«gymnasium «Dmitrov»»
Supervisor: Senatorova L.V.,
Teacher of English
«gymnasium «Dmitrov»»

reading is different in Russian and English and how to

read them correctly.

systemize the information;
To test my classmates to know how well

they can read numerals;
To make a presentation in PowerPoint;
To learn how to use Microsoft Office Publisher and to make a brochure «Rules of reading numerals»;
To develop communication skills;
To enlarge my vocabulary.

read English numerals correctly.
The hypothesis
I suppose my classmates will

find it difficult to read some numerals in English. In the first place, they will be fractions.

analysis and synthesis.
The empirical method is testing.

and ordinal numerals. However, the year of 1900 was a

mistake.
My classmates had difficulties reading fractions.
Thus, my hypothesis was confirmed: children can read not all numerals.
The reason for this is that in the English lessons we don’t meet fractions every day.

that denotes the quantity and the order of things.
Numeral
Ordinal
Cardinal

by cases.
In both languages numerals can be simple and

composite.

Simple

Composite

to 12.
to form numerals from 13 to 19. We

should add the suffix -teen to the numeral from 3 to 9. But there is a secret with thirteen.

from 20 to 90 we should add the suffix –ty.

For example, six + - ty- = sixty.
Composite numerals are formed easily. As we do it in Russian: sixty-five.

order of things we should add the suffix –th.

numeral, but the denominator is an ordinal numeral.
The same

is in the Russian language.
If the numerator is more than one, the denominator is a plural.

we can start reading the number with the point. For

example: 0.1 is point one.
If the integer part is two digits, we can read it by one digit or together. 38.2 - three eight point two or thirty eight point two.
But 345.6 is only three four five point six.
After the point numbers are said only by one. For example: 674.54 - six seven four point five four.

into two parts.
Years ending in two zeros are read like

this: 1900 – nineteen hundred.
Years like 1907 are read nineteen hundred oh seven.
2000 is two thousand.

2009 are cardinal numerals. We read them like 2006 –

two thousand (and) six.
But after 2010 we can read years in two possible ways.
1) two thousand and sixteen
2) twenty sixteen.

2.11.2017 like this: the second of November two thousand and

seventeen or twenty seventeen.
In American English: February eleventh twenty seventeen.
It means that in Britain the date is: day, month, year, and in America it is month, day, year.

British

American

Day, month, year

Month, day, year

in tens and hundreds, but in English we should say

the numbers by one digit: 555-757-23-11 — five, five, five, seven, five, seven, two, three, one, one.

8(926)578-00-88

singular if we use them in phrases: two hundred, twenty

thousand, and four million.
But in the same position in Russian we use plural of these words.
In English they can be plural when we use them in such phrases:
Hundreds of ships
Millions of stars

in English: zero, o [ou], nill, nought, love.
Zero is

used in Maths and when we say the temperature.
O is often used when we read telephone numbers.
Nill means “nothing” , it is used to say the score of the game: Argentina — five, Jamaica — nill.
Nought means “nothing”.
Love is used to say tennis scores: ‘The score was thirty love. (30-0)
The best way to say “zero” is “zero”.

numerals. If they are similar, it is easy to read

them. If they are different, we have difficulties reading them.
Unlike the Russian language English numerals do not change by cases.
During the reading test I found out that fractions were difficult to read.
There are two variants to read dates: American English and British English.

to say “zero”.
The words “hundred”, “thousand”, “million” are used in

singular when they follow the number, but they are used in plural in phrases like “millions of stars”.
To help my classmates to read numerals correctly I made a brochure and gave it to them.

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