Learning vocabulary: Numbers

Astonishingly enough, that is, to my surprise, many of my students do not know how to read numbers, so every time we come across one in a sentence they start sweating and wait for my help so that they can read it properly; this does not usually happen with dates which are divided into pairs to be said, for example: 1976 is read "nineteen seventy-six" and, normally, there is no problem. But when it comes to figures...
That is why I have decided to write this post so that you eventually get to know them. The first chart shows the main patterns:

1 10 100 1,000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000

One Ten A hundred A thousand Ten thousand A hundred thousand A million

Important things to remember:

• When saying numbers, we do not use the plural of hundred, thousand or million. They only use it in the plural when they talk about an indefinite quantity (for instance, "there were hundreds of animals before me", is it two hundred, three?, we do not know)
• They use commas instead of points, they use points for decimals.
• You have to use "and" to link hundred, thousand or million to tens or units.
• They can use a or one before million, hundred and thousand but not in any other position.

Let's see some examples:

7 14 178 2,259 18,654 589,236 6,789,541

Seven Fourteen A hundred and seventy-eight two thousand, two hundred and fifty-nine. Eighteen thousand, six hundred and fifty-four Five hundred and eighty-nine thousand, two hundred and thirty-six Six million, seven hundred and eighty-nine thousand, five hundred and forty-one.

Now it is your time to work on it, check out the following links:

• From 20-100
• From 0-99999
• Others

I hope the post gives you a clear idea of what you should be doing when you read numbers.

PS: I will not publish the comments on the animal description post until Monday, so more of you get the opportunity to do it. Good work!