Numbers 11 - 20 (eleven through twenty)
11 - eleven books
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12 - twelve things | |||||||
13 - thirteen ribbons
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14 - fourteen buttons
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15 - fifteen penguins
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16 - sixteen watches
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17 - seventeen chess pieces |
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18 - eighteen faces | |||||||
19 - nineteen scissors
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20 - twenty cups
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"which" is for questions
When you ask a question with "which" you are giving someone a choice -
Which number is this? 2 one, two, or three It is "two".
Which number is bigger? 1 or 8? 8 is bigger.
The verb "to be"
The verb "To be" Present Tense is just three little words: am, are, is:
"am" -> I am -> I'm
"are" -> You are -> You're
"is" -> He is (He's) / She is (She's) / It is (It's)
These are pronouns and they are used with the verb "be":
"He" is masculine , it is used for men or boys.
"She" is feminine , it is used women or girls.
"It " is for things and animals, not people.
"You" -> the person who is reading this web page and listening to my audio clips.
Phone Numbers
This is how we ask for a telephone (phone) number:
What's your phone number, please?
We tell them our phone number like this:
555-102-6789 (five five five one oh two six seven eight nine).
Note: the number 0 (zero) is pronounced "oh" in phone numbers.
555-631-4201 (five five five six three one four two oh one)
Hotel room numbers
When saying a hotel room number that has a 0 (zero) in it, such as 209, we usually say "oh", not zero. We would say "two oh nine" (209), "six oh eight" (608).
We also typically say a 3-digit, or 4-digit , room number as if it were 2 numbers.
The room number 119 is spoken as "one nineteen", not "one one nine".
The room number 1805 is spoken as "eighteen oh five"
The room number 1121 is "eleven twenty-one".
Check into a hotel:
- Hotel: Good morning.
- Customer: Good morning. I'm Mateo Alvarez.
- Hotel: Welcome to Hotel Blue Moon, Mr. Alvarez, you're in room 101.
- Customer: Thank you.
- Hotel: Hello, welcome to the Lux Hotel.
- Customer: Thank you. I'm Brenda Black.
- Hotel: You're in room 220, Ms. Black.
- Hotel: Good Afternoon, welcome to Hotel California.
- Customer: Thank you. I'm Chin Yun.
- Hotel: Hello Mr. Yun, first, what is your phone number?
- Customer: It's 555-312-0134
- Hotel: Thank you. Ok, Mr. Yun, you're in room 504.
- Hotel: Hello, welcome to the Blue Lagoon Hotel.
- Customer: Thank you. I'm Mrs. Catherine Smith.
- Hotel: Hello Mrs. Smith, what's your phone number, please?
- Customer: It's 555-506-1234.
- Hotel: Thank you Mrs. Smith, you're in room 212.
Practice
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