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

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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 masculine.png, it is used for men or boys.
"She" is feminine feminine.png, it is used women or girls.
"It ItThings.png" is for things and animals, not people.
"You" -> the person who is reading this web page and listening to my audio clips.

Phone phones.png 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 hotels.png room numbers
When saying a hotel room number RoomNumber.png 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 RoomNumber2.png, 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

Review the numbers. Write the number words in the blanks.
  • 12
  • 17
  • 20


Write the number words for these hotel room numbers.
  • 101
  • 212


Fill in the blanks with the missing words.
  • Carla: morning.
  • Hotel Clerk: Good morning. your name?
  • Carla: Carla Smith.
  • Hotel Clerk: Thank you Ms. Smith, and what's your phone ?
  • Carla: 555-234-9806
  • Hotel Clerk: Thank you, okay, in room 207 Ms. Smith.

Do you remember?
  • A polite greeting at 6:30pm
  • What can you say when you leave your best friend BestFriend.png


Choose "It, He, She" for these:
  • Which do you use for a boy or man boy.png?
  • Which do you use for a girl or woman girl.png?
  • Which do you use for a house house.png?
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