Numbers & Symbols

Contact data
Possessive Adjectives
 Numbers

one two three

four five six

seven eight nine

Asterisk Hash
/ou/

zero
 What’s your phone number?
When we say a phone number, we have to say zero (0) as the vowel (/ou/). For
example:

Alan: What’s your phone number?

Carol: My phone number is 0304 7892345. (o; three; o; four…)
Another way to answer this is:
Carol: It’s 0304 7892345. (o; three; o; four…)
 Symbols
• @: at Some punctuation marks:
• ?: question mark
• ( . ): dot
• !: exclamation mark
• ( - ): hyphen • ( : ): colon
• ( _ ): underscore • ( ; ): semicolon
• ( * ): asterisk • ( . ): period
• ( , ): comma
• ( # ): hash
• ( ‘ ) apostrophe
 What’s your e-mail address?
We say dot to refer to the symbol ( . ) when it is used to say internet or e-mail addresses.
For example:
Michel: What’s your e-mail address?
Ana: It’s anawilson@myemail.com (…myemail ‘dot’ com)
However, in texts the symbol ( . ) is called period.
 Possessive adjectives
We use possessive adjectives to refer to belongings. They must be used
according to each personal pronoun. For example:
Personal Pronoun Possessive Adjective
I My
You Your
He His
She Her
It Its
We Our
They Their
 Possessive adjectives

My phone number is….

Your teacher is Miguel.
Her name is Adriana.
His name is Manuel…
Its toy is blue. (talking about a the toy of a dog)
Our children are at school.
Their house is really big.