UNIT 6 •• MONEY

SKILLS USEFUL LANGUAGE

Dealing with YEARS DECIMALS

figures
1984 nineteen eighty-four 16.5 sixteen point five
2012 two thousand and twelve 17.38% seventeen point three eight per cent
or twenty twelve 0.185 (nought Izera) paint one eight five

CURRENCIES FRACTIONS
0.15 three pounds fifteen t Q quarter t a half
$7.80 seven dol/ors eighty
t two thirds t three quarters
€250 two hundred and fifty euros
¥ 12 5 one hundred and twenty-five yen

BIGGER N UMBERS
3,560 three thousand five hundred and sixty (BrE)
three thousand five hundred sixty (ArnE)
598,347 five hundred and ninety-eight thousand, three hundred and forty-seven (BrE)
five hundred ninety-eight thousand, three hundred forty-seven (ArnE)
1,300,402 one million three hundred thousand, four hundred and two (BrE)
one mil/ion three hundred thousand, four hundred two (Am E)
1m one 10 mil/ion (1,000,000)
3bn three billion (3,000,000,000)
$7.5bn seven point five billion dol/ors
€478m four hundred and seventy-eight mil/ion euros (BrE)
four hundred seventy-eight million euros (ArnE)
If yo u don't specify an exact amount, a plural is used.
It cost thousands of dol/ars. They spent millions of euros.

m Work i n pairs. Student A, turn to page 136 and read the text aloud to
Student B. Student B, listen to Student A while reading this article.
Correct any i ncorrect information.

Business
FTSE 250 rell 1 8 9 . 1 points or Airways, down 5 .2 per cent to
1 .9 per cent to 9,534.8. 225�p. fel l even further after
10 Only eight blue·chip stocks Morgan Stanley cut its target

in brief
managed to make gains. The to 149p. This was because
best was Smith & Nephew. 25 of worries about increcl sing
Shares in the medical devices fuel prices.
It was a bad day for the group rose 2.9 percent 10 595Y.!p Tate and Lyle, the sugar and
London market. Following 15 after UBS upgraded the stock sweeteners group, lost 5.2 per
disappointing results from to a 'buy' recommendation. cent to 402 Y.i P after CityGroup
Fed Ex in the US and fears S&N was also supPol1ed by 30 lowered its forecasts because
5 of a credit crunch. the FfSE rumours of a bid approach frorn of rising corn prices. Following
100 fell 105 points or 1 .8 per a Japanese company. recent noods in the US. the cost
cent to 5,756.9, while the 20 On the other hand, British of com has risen 25 per cent.

D "'» C01.40 Listen and check the pronunciation of the figures.

D Write all the numbers from the correct version of the article i n Exercise A
i n full, according to the way they are pronounced.
EXAMPLE: 105 points Q hued red Q e d five poi et,

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