Имя числительное (The Numeral)

Имя числительное — часть речи, обозначающая количество предметов (количественные числительные), а также порядок предметов при счёте (порядковые числительные).

Количественные числительные

379 = three hundred and seventy nine; 2,860 = two thousand eight hundred and sixty; 5,084 = five thousand and eighty-four; 470,000 = four hundred and seventy thousand; 2,550,000 = two million, five hundred and fifty thousand; 3,000,000,000 = three billion.

Примечание: Числительные hundred, thousand, million, billion могут употребляться как существительные в единственном и множественном числе: a million of roses, thousands of birds.

Порядковые числительные

4 January (4th January) – the fourth of January или January the fourth. 21 May (21st May) – the twenty-first of May или May the twenty-first. 1997 - nineteen ninety seven, 1905 – nineteen hundred and five или nineteen oh five.

 

Дроби

 

'/₄ = one and a quarter; '/₃ = one and a third; 1.75 = one point seven five; '/₂ = one and a half; 1.25 = one point two five; 1.33 = one point three three; 1.5 = one point five

Проценты

 

26% = twenty-six per cent.

More than 50% is the majority; less than 50% is the minority.

 

Арифметические действия

+ = addition 6 + 4=10 (six plus/and four equals/is ten)

- = subtraction 6 - 4=2 (six minus four equals/is two)

* = multiplication 6 * 4 = 24 (six times/multiplied by four

equals/is twenty-four)

: = division 4: 2=2 (four divided by two equals/is two)

Произношение “0”

 

Telephone number: 603 724 = six oh three, seven two four

(AmEng = six zero three); mathematics: 0.7 = naught point seven,

6.02 = six point oh two; temperature: -10 degrees = ten degrees below zero / minus ten degrees.

Чтение чисел

 

The streets have got odd numbers (3, 5, 7) on the left and even numbers (4, 6, 8) on the right.

I got 16 out of 20 in our last test.

Обозначение года

 

	Написание	Произношение
		nineteen eighty-seven
		two thousand two
	in 2006	in the year two thousand six
	1500 ВС	fifteen hundred BC
	1500 ВС	one thousand five hundred ВС
	in the 60s	in the sixties
	in the 1980s	in the nineteen eighties

 

Упражнения

Упражнение 1. Переведите предложения:

1. В этой школе 700 учеников. 2. В спортивных со­ревнованиях приняли участие сотни учащихся. 3. Ты­сячи людей пришли на митинг. 4. На этом предприятии работает 2000 рабочих. 5. Эту программу смотрели мил­лионы телезрителей. 6. Население Москвы – более де­сяти миллионов человек. 7. Георг V был двоюродным братом Николая II. 8. Ты можешь позвонить мне по те­лефону 246-00-17 с десяти до пяти. 9. Платье стоит 245 рублей. 10. Дом был построен в XIX веке.

 

Упражнение 2. Дайте ответы на эти вопросы. Пишите ответы словами, а не цифрами:

 

1. When were you born?

2. How much do you weigh?

3. What is the number of the flat or house where you live?

4. Is that an odd or an even number?

5. What is the approximate population of your town?

6. What is the approximate population of your country?

7. What is the normal temperature of a healthy person?

8. How many kilometres are there in a mile?

Упражнение 3. Как вы прочитаете эти числа и даты на английском языке:

a) numbers: 6; 73; 38; 17; 13; 12; 0; 101; 152; 1,045; 6,671; 9,854; 87,432; 80,400; 329,645; 110,536; 13,614,200;

b) dates: June 1,1905; May 9,1945; July 2,1800; February 4, 1995; October 3, 1101; September 30, 1445; March 30, 2000; 300 AD; 45 BC; May 9, 2009;

c ) time: 3:10; 4:15; 5:45; 12:00; 1:30; 7:40; 2:05; 8:15; 4:00;

d) titles: Henry VII, Elizabeth II, James I, Charles V, LouisXII, Edward VII, Peter I, Catherine II;

e) telephone numbers: 213-66-01,421-57-83,221-00-74, 971-24-50,426-11-44,157-18-20, 322-35-04;

f ) phrases: exercise 5, page 312, bus 102, room 203, text 6, tram 17, lecture room 9, chapter 12, line 13, box 481.

Упражнение 4. Вы получили открытку из Аляски. Изучите её содержание. Выполните задания А и Б:

Alaska. The biggest state

 

* 19 mountains over 14,000 leet

* Highest point in North Amer­ica, Mt. Mc Kinley 20,320 feet

* More area than the 26 smallest states

* Purchased from Russia in 1867

* Longest days, 24 hours of daylight

* Longest nights, 24 hours of night

* More than 3 million lakes, larger than 25 acres

* 586,400 square miles

* 1/5 the land mass of the entire continental U.S.

* More than two times the size of Texas

* 29 active volcanoes, half the world's total

* More coastline than the lower 48 states, 33,000 miles

* More than half the world's glaciers

* One glacier larger than Switzer­land

 

А. Найдите в открытке эту информацию.

 

1) the length of the coastline

2) the height of the highest mountain

3) the number of lakes

4) the size of the largest glacier

5) the date of the purchase

6) the area of the state in square miles

7) the percentage of the U.S. land mass covered by Alaska

Б. Задайте вопросы о своей стране и ответьте на них.

1) Which is the highest point?

2) How long are the longest days?

3) Which is the longest river?

4) Which is the largest lake?

5) Which is the biggest city?

6) Which is the largest state or province?

7) Is the biggest city also the capital?

8) What's the population?

 

Упражнение 5.

A. Напишите эти даты цифрами:

The Date Game

 

A	B	C
your birthday	today's date	tomorrow's date
D	E	F
yesterday's date	the date after next Wednesday	The date of Сhristmas Day
G	H	I
the date of your last holiday	the date of the last day of this century	the date you started working for your company
J	K	L
the date of your country's main public holiday	the date you started learning English	The most memorable date in your life!

B. Поработайте в парах, сопоставляя даты и события по образцу:

 

Student 1: The thirty-first of December, nineteen ninety-nine.

Student 2: The last day of this century.

 

Упражнение 6. Закончите предложения, используя данные ниже слова: borrowed, earned, gave, invest, owed, saved, spent, wasting:

 

1. In 1990 the group... £4m from investments in overseas companies.

2. The accountants advised us to repay 15% of what we... to the banks.

3. The shareholders criticized the board for... so much money on unnecessary trips abroad.

4. The company... £5,000 to a local school to set up a computer department.

5. My stockbroker suggested I should... in a South East Asia Unit Trust.

6. The government... £6.5 billion from the IMF for a con­struction project.

7. Last year we... over £3.5m on a research and develop­ment project.

8. We... £323,500 in administrative costs by reducing the number of office staff.