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Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers Exercises

The document provides exercises to practice writing and saying cardinal and ordinal numbers in English. It includes exercises writing out numbers, days of the month, months of the year, and dates in words or figures. It also provides guidance on saying years before and after 2000 in English.

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Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers Exercises

The document provides exercises to practice writing and saying cardinal and ordinal numbers in English. It includes exercises writing out numbers, days of the month, months of the year, and dates in words or figures. It also provides guidance on saying years before and after 2000 in English.

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Cardinal and Ordinal Numbers

Exercise 1
Write in letters:

102------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
256-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
547--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
985-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1,874-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2,222-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5,685------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
9,451------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Exercise 2
Write the ordinal number:
2 --------------------------------------------6 --------------------------------------
11 ------------------------------------------- 15 -------------------------------------
18 --------------------------------------------41 --------------------------------------
23 -------------------------------------------56 -------------------------------------
77 -------------------------------------------95 ------------------------------------

HOW DO WE SAY THE DATE IN ENGLISH?


First let’s revise some vocabulary! Be careful, these words all start with
capital letters!!

Exercise 3
Give the days of the week:

M-------------T---------------W----------------T-----------
F-------------- S---------------S-----------------

Exercise 4
Give the months of the year:

J-------------F--------------M--------------A----------------
M-------------J-------------J---------------A----------------
S--------------O-------------N--------------D---------------

1
In English we write: “Thursday 7th November 2013” and we say:
Thursday, the seventh of November 2013
“Monday 2nd September 2013” Monday, the second of
September 2013

To answer the question: When were you born?


We say: I was born ON the Twenty- second of July…
We use ON before the date
As for the YEARS:
The years before 2000 are said in groups of two numbers
1789 : 17 89 seventeen eighty- nine
1956: 19 56 nineteen fifty-six
From 2000 to 2010 we use usual numbers
2001 two thousand and one
2002 two thousand and two
but from 2010 on we can hear both possibilities:
2010 two thousand and ten or twenty ten
The 2012 London Olympic games the Twenty twelve Olympic
games

Exercise 5
Write the following years in figures:
1. nineteen ninety-eight--------------------------------------------------------
2. eighteen sixty-two ----------------------------------------------------------
3. seventeen eighty-two---------------------------------------------------------
4. fifteen fifteen--------------------------------------------------------------
5. nineteen seventy- two--------------------------------------------------------

Exercise 6
Write the years in letters:

1. 1945-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
2. 1824------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. 1789------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. 1615------------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. 1997------------------------------------------------------------------------------
6. 2003-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Exercise 7
How would you read these dates?

1. Thursday 7th April 2008


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2. Monday 12th June 1986
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3. Wednesday 1st August 2001
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Sunday 8th January 2012

Exercise 8
Write the cardinal and the ordinal numbers as indicated
below:

13
19
21
9
33
44
59
40
80
102
510
1517
100.000
4500
450.000
2020
1907
1.999.742

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