Cardinal and ordinal

numbers

Salvador Orquín
IES Escola Industrial
Sabadell
Cardinal numbers
 0 OH / ZERO
 1 ONE  10 TEN
 2 TWO
 3 THREE
 4 FOUR
 5 FIVE  11 ELEVEN
 6 SIX
 7 SEVEN
 8 EIGHT  12 TWELVE
 9 NINE
Teen numbers
 13 THIRTEEN
 14 FOURTEEN
 15 FIFTEEN
 16 SIXTEEN
 17 SEVENTEEN
 18 EIGHTEEN
 19 NINETEEN
TY numbers (tens)
 20 TWENTY
 30 THIRTY
 40 FORTY
 50 FIFTY
 60 SIXTY
 70 SEVENTY
 80 EIGHTY
 90 NINETY
Remember:
My daughter is eighteen years
old and her grandmother is
eighty.

18
80
We write the tens and the units,
separated by a hyphen.
21 TWENTY-ONE

32 THIRTY-TWO

55 FIFTY-FIVE

97 NINETY-SEVEN
100

ONE HUNDRED
 or

A HUNDRED
After hundred you need and
 108 A hundred and eight

 213 Two hundred and thirteen

 390 Three hundred and ninety

 666 Six hundred and sixty-six

1000

A THOUSAND
 or

ONE THOUSAND
After thousand you need a comma
 1004 One thousand, four

 1118 One thousand, one hundred and

eighteen

 3500 Three thousand, five hundred

 6894 Six thousand, eight hundred and

ninety-four
1000000

A MILLION
 or

ONE MILLION
5000000
FIVE MILLION

Millions IS WRONG
Listen to the numbers and repeat

 Learn English numbers:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IusYGcbfCs&
feature=related
 Let’s write some numbers.
 68 sixty eight
 19 nineteen
 23 twenty-three
 40 fourty
 91 ninety-one
 104 a hundred and for
 222 two hundred and twenty two
 739 seven hundred and thirty nine
 1215 one thousand, two hundred and fifteen
…and
 6430

 12900
 35827

 115582

 6941528
Ordinal numbers
 FIRST  Ordinal numbers
 SECOND ending:
 THIRD  1……..st
 FOURTH  2……..nd
 FIFTH  3……. rd
 SIXTH  Except:
 SEVENTH  11 eleventh
 EIGHTH
 12 twelfth
 13 thirteenth
 NINTH
 21… st, 22..nd, 23..rd..
 TENTH
 Others….. th
Ordinal numbers follow the same
rule as cardinal numbers.
 15th fifteenth
 20th twentieth
 21st twenty-first
 22nd twenty-second
 23rd twenty-third
 24th twenty-fourth
 32nd thirty-second
 55th fifty-fifth
 61st sixty-first
Ordinal numbers are used with
dates

 Today is December 8 2009.

 We’ll say: ‘today is December the eighth two

thousand nine.’ or ‘today is the eighth of
December two thousand nine.’