F2F Class Notes (Tibo) [S]

how to read numbers

practice with graphs

review both documents + bring some graphs to class

Vocabulary

to stack (v) : put on top of one another
I stacked the boxes in a corner of the room

decimal(n): number less than 1
We usually quote the price with 2 decimals($ 1.45)

When explain a chart you want to talk about trend + speed
The number of patients went up rapidly
The price of TVs is decreasing slowly

Sometimes the trend doesn’t change but the speed changes

The price continues to increase but slower than before

Pronunciation

read numbers from left to right

start from the extreme left and stop at the coma. Then read the scale then repeat until the next coma or until the end

x,000 thousand
x,000,000 million
x,000,000,000 billion
x,000,000,000,000 trillion

125,200 : one hundred twenty five thousand two hundred

5,300,450 : five million three hundred thousand four hundred fifty

26,267,561 : twenty six million two hundred sixty seven thousand five hundred sixty one

46,900.72 : forty six thousand nine hundred point seven two

American English doesn’t use and, British English uses and after hundreds
250 : two hundred fifty / two hundred and fifty

read the decimal as point and each number individually
25.45 : twenty five point four five

fractions:

3/8 : three eights
1/5 : one fifth
2/9 two ninths

1/4 : one fourth / one quarter
1/2 : one half / half
1/3 : one third

Major currencies :
USD : Dollar
GBP : Pound
EUR: Euro
JPY : Yen
RUB : Rubble (Russia)
CNY: Yuan
AUD: Australian Dollar

$50.35 fifty dollars and thirty five cents

Discounts :

the logic is the opposite of the Chinese logic
2 折=80% discount
The product is 80% off / the product has a discount of 80%

9折= 10% off / a discount of 10%