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Listening skills practice: Understanding numbers – exercises

Listen to the numbers and do the exercises to practice and improve your listening skills.
Preparation
Do this exercise before you listen. Match the numbers with the way we say them. Write a–f next to the
number 1–6.

3rd April a. one thousand, three hundred and sixty-five

1……
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2…… 1968 b. two million
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3…… 1,365 c. the third of April
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4…… 2,000,000 d. one meter fourteen
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5…… 9th September e. nineteen sixty-eight
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6…… 1.14 m f. the ninth of September
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1. Check your understanding: ordering
Do this exercise while you listen. Write a number (1-10) to put these numbers in the order you hear them.

……5…… 1.27 m …… 671

8…….

……1…… 0208 542 8976

…… 103
7…….

……3…… 1985 …… 68
6…….

……9…… 5,325 … 8,000,000

10………
.

……2…. 14 ……… 25th June

4….
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2. Check your understanding: grouping

Do this exercise while you listen. Write the numbers in the correct group.

5,325 A 103 A 8,000,000A 40 B

14 A 0208 542 8976 A 1.27 m A 8,000 B

1985 A 671 A 01442 9977 B 1995 B

68 A 25th June A 21st June B 525 B

Numbers you hear A Numbers you don’t hear B

0208 542 8976 21ST JUNE

14 014429977

1985 525

25th 40

1.27m 8,000

68 1995

671
5325

8000000