Monday, January 09, 2012

@ The years in English

How do you name the new years of the present century like 2012, 2001? Are they named the same way as 1801, 1802, 1820...? And the year 1004? Everytime we study how to name the years in 2ºESO, I realize that the way we read years is a little complicated in English and for foreign learners it can be confusing and ambiguous.




YEARS ...most common pronunciation:
  • en 235 --> in two thirty-five
  • en 1000 --> in one thousand
  • en 1.004 --> in one thousand and four / in ten oh-four
  • en 1050 --> in ten fifty
  • en 1225 --> in twelve twenty-five (normal rule)
  • en 1900 --> in nineteen hundred / in nineteen aught
  • en 1901 --> in nineteen oh-one
NEW! ....
  • en 2000 --> in two thousand
  • en 2001 --> in two thousand and one / in twenty oh-one
  • en 2010 --> in two thousand and ten / in twenty ten

See --> WIKIPEDIA (English numerals)
See also a good explanation on --> BUBELHUT

EXERCICES..................................................................................................................

Write the following years:

a. en 1090.--> g. en 1007 -->
b. en 2012 --> h. en 1018-->
c. en 890 --> i. en 1600 -->
d. en 1992--> j. en 555-->
e. en 1789 --> k. en 1802 -->
f. en 1800 --> l. en 1501 -->

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