Special characters
TASK: Draw the picture of the symbol next to its name
ampersand
apostrophe
asterisk
at
backslash
brackets, parentheses
circumflex, caret
colon
comma
curly brackets, braces
dash
dollar
equals sign
exclamation mark
greater than
number sign
hyphen
less than
per cent
point, full stop, period
pound
question mark
quotation marks, inverted commas
semicolon
square brackets
stroke, slash, slant, oblique
tilde
underscore
vertical bar
.
,
:
;
“…”
!
?
–
/
\
„
()
[]
{}
^
*
&
#
@
$
£
%
=
<
>
~
_
Saying numbers
OH / NOUGHT / ZERO / NIL / LOVE
oh
nought
zero
nil
love
zip
after decimal point, telephone numbers, years, room numbers, account numbers
before decimal point in Br.
temperature, the number, before decimal point in Am.
soccer games
tennis
Am. slang
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DECIMAL POINT
10,015 is ten thousand and fifteen
10.015 is ten point oh one five NB! Numbers after decimal point are read separately
However with money:
£1.50 is one pound fifty
€2.95 is two euros ninety five
HUNDREDS / THOUSANDS / MILLIONS
120 is read a hundred and twenty (Br) or a hundred twenty (Am)
The number 1999 is said one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine
They year 1999 is said nineteen ninety nine
The year 2015 is said two thousand and fifteen or twenty fifteen
1,000,000 is a million
1,000,000,000 is a
SQUARES / CUBES / ROOTS
3²
√9
three squared, three to the second, three to the power of two, three to the two
the square root of nine
cube root, the fourth root…
FRACTIONS
⅓
⅔
1⅝
¼
PRACTICE:
0.01___________________________________________________________________________
Year 1985______________________________________________________________________
$5.25__________________________________________________________________________
15,682_________________________________________________________________________
1,500__________________________________________________________________________
E=mc²_________________________________________________________________________
Tel. 044 510 5517________________________________________________________________
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