Calidad
en la enseñanza de idiomas desde 1985
Quality language teaching since 1985
Quality language teaching since 1985
COURSES
Miembro de ASEPROCE
(Asociacién Española
de Promotores de Cursos
en el Extranjero)
Miembro de ACADE
(Asociación de Centros
Autónomos de Enseñanza
Privado)
Miembro de Acedim
(Asociación de Centros
de Enseñanza de Idiomas
de Madrid)
University of Cambridge
ESOL Examinations
Authorised Centre
for Teaching Awards
Member of TESOL
(Teachers of English
to Speakers of
Other Languages)
Member of IATEFL
International Association
of Teachers of English
as a Foreign Language)
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HYLAND
LANGUAGE CENTRE
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READING, SPEAKING AND WRITING NUMBERS
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| Notes: | "a hundred" is less formal than "one hundred" | |||
| In spoken English "zero", "nought" or "oh" are used for the number 0. "zero" is most common in US and technical English. | ||||
| In English a comma or a space is used to separate thousands, eg 10,000 or 10 000. A decimal point is used for decimals, eg pi=3·142857 | ||||
| US and GB1 | Europe and GB2 | |||
| 1 000 000 000 | 109 | a/one billion | a/one thousand million | |
| 1 000 000 000 000 | 1012 | a/one trillion | a/one billion | |
| 1 000 000 000 000 000 | 1015 | a/one quadrillion | a/one thousand billion | |
| 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 | 1018 | a/one quintillion | a/one trillion | |
| 1 GB finance, business and newspaper forms | ||||
| 2 GB traditional forms | ||||
| 1/8 | a/one eighth | 1/4 | a/one quarter |
| 1/3 | a/one third | 1/2 | a/one half |
| 3/4 | three quarters | 2/3 | two thirds |
| 7/8 | seven eighths | 2/5 | two fifths |
| Complex fractions are spoken as follows: | |||
| 22/7 | twenty-two over seven | 9/126 | nine over a hundrend and twenty-six |
| + | plus/add | 2+2 | two plus two |
| - | minus/take away | 10-3 | ten minus three |
| x | multiplied by/times/by | 3x5 | three times five or three fives |
| ÷ | divided by | 2÷3 | two divided by three |
| = | equals/is equal to is/are |
2+2=4 | two plus two equals four two plus two is four |
| > | is more than | a>b | a is more than b |
| < | is less than | b<a | b is less than a |
| % | percent | 80% | eighty percent |
| √ | (square)root | √10 | the square root of ten |
| x2 | squared | 52 | five squared |
| x3 | cubed | 73 | seven cubed |
| xx | to the power | 1120 | eleven to the power twenty |
| 60 seconds (") = 1 minute (´) | 90 degrees = 1 right angle |
| 60 minutes = 1 degree (°) | 360 degrees = 1 circle or circumference |
the radius of a circle = ½ x the diameter
the circumference of a circle = 22/7 (π) x the diameter