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Чтение дат и дробей

What is the date? Today is Wednesday, the seventeenth of January. What was yesterday? Yesterday was Tuesday, the sixteenth of January. And tomorrow? Tomorrow will be Thursday, the eighteenth of January.

1st January 1915 – the first of January (January , the first), nineteen {hundred and) fifteen. 22nd October 1911 – the twenty-second of October (October the twenty-second), nineteen (hundred and) eleven.

Jan. – January; Feb. – February; Mar. – March; Apr. – April; Aug. – August; Sept. – September; Oct. – October; Nov. – November; Dec. – December.

1900 – nineteen hundred, 1903 – nineteen oh three, 2000 – two thousand, 2002 – two thousand two, 1/3 – one third, 2/5 – two fifth.

Exercises

  1. Read the following numerals: 48; the 1st; the 2nd; the 3d; the 59th; 1,242; 3,125th; 0.5; 1/2; 3/7; 2/3; l,345,569; in 1987; in 1900; by 1805; the 100th; the 20th; the 52nd.

  2. Choose the numerals in the singular or plural:

1. Millions/million of tourists visit the wilderness every year. 2. Four hundreds/hundred dollars are spent on ecological projects at this college. 3. There are thousands/thousand of city-dwellers suffering from smog. 4. The average sea-level will rise by nearly two hundred/hundreds feet because of ice-caps melting.

  1. Read the following sentences:

1. The century after that may be hotter than any in the past 70,000 000 years. 2. As in other countries, at the end of the 1980s Britain became more concerned about preserving the environment. 3. Two incidents in 1988 changed our attitudes to nature: the 1st one was the death of 300 of seals, and the 2nd was a scandal concerning the dumping of a shipment of toxic waste in Britain. 4. To reduce the emission of pollutants special equipment must be installed costing in 1990 £350,000 000 per station.

  1. Read the following: 15 August 1432; 18 December 1683; 5 October 1156; 27 March 1745; 14 April 1832; 23 November 1935; 22. June 1937; 26 May 1567; 3 August 1432; 8 January 1965; 23 February 1918; 16 September 1667.

  2. Say what time it is now: 9.35; 11.30; 12.44; 2.15; 4.20; 8.50; 6.10; 5.30; 3.25; 7.15; 9.55; 5.45; 4.30; 2.45; 3.17; 1.40; 7.12; 10.40; 12.50;. 11.27; 8.25; 2.15.

  3. Read the following numerals: 40; 60; 100; 90; 31; 57; 171; 365; 1583; 5 505; 75 000; 13 407; 433; 45 672; 324 456; 95 655; 478 932; 1 342 458; 5 879 453; 432 258; 575; 48560; 768 354; 7 245 672; 278; 439; 2 439; 66 769.

  4. Name the days of the week.

  5. Name the months of the year.

  6. A) Translate the phrases from the box into Russian:

house one— the first house

page two— the second page

flat three— the third flat

lab four— the fourth lab

lesson seven— the seventh lesson

one house

two pages

three flats

four labs

seven lessons.

б) Translate into English: один – первый, шесть – шестой, восемь – восьмой, два – второй, десять – десятый, четыре – четвертый, одиннадцать – одиннадцатый, три – третий, дом номер девять, в пятой квартире, три текста, шесть книг, два слова, в третьем тексте, семь дней, в первой и во второй лаборатории.