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Dates and Numbers
Activity type: this is a dictation activity in which students have to recognize how to express numbers and dates.
Level: Beginner students and above
Teacher's notes:
Level: Beginner students and above
Teacher's notes:
- Begin this activity by reading out the following numbers. Tell the students to write them down as figures:
- 101
- 100,000
- 24
- 57
- 28
- 24
- 1,550
- 74
- 42
- 6
- 2,000,000
- 2, 001
- 2,000,000,000
- 16
- 101
- Go over the answers and now read these out and ask the students to write them down:
- Money:
- $400
- 50 cents
- $9.99
- 1000 Yen
- 20 pounds
- Phone numbers:
- 011 212 437 0003
- 1 800 342 9777
- 001 44 834 9907
- 347 7241
- Dates:
- 1987
- 05/26/2005
- 2021
- 03/28/1968
- 09/25/1978
- 12/02/2004
- 09/24/1994
- 02/20/2004
- 2nd of February
- 29th of March
- First of June
- Third of April
(Note that the US format of writing dates is Month/Day/Year, eg: 03/31/1981)
- Decimals and percentages:
- 25%
10%
10.9
2.8
16%
- Temperatures:
- 78 degrees Fahrenheit 25 degrees Celsius 12 degrees centigrade
(You may want to discuss which countries use which system for measuring the temperature.)
- Fractions
- A quarter
a half
three quarters
two and six eighths
a third
a sixteenth
- Money:
- Ask the students to check what they have written down with their partners.
- Repeat if necessary and then write the answers on the board.
- Ask the students to then think of their:
- favorite number
- favorite date
- favorite national holiday
- temperature that they like to live in
- salary that they would like to earn!
- favorite number
- Tell the students to tell their partners what the above are
- Tell them to read the dates and numbers out; their partners should not look at what they have written but write down what they say i.e. a paired dictation
- Once each pair has done this, ask the group to tell each other why the above dates and numbers are their favorites.