Exercise 1 : Write the numbers in letters

T o answer the question: When were you born?

We say: I was born ON the Twenty- second of July…

We use ON before the date

As for the YEARS:

The years before 2000 are said in groups of two numbers

1 789 : 17 89 seventeen eighty- nine

1956: 19 56 nineteen fifty-six

From 2000 to 2010 we use usual numbers

2001. 
      t wo thousand and one
      
2002. 
      t wo thousand and two
      

but from 2010 on we can hear both possibilities:

2 010 two thousand and ten or twenty ten

T he 2012 London Olympic games the Twenty twelve Olympic games
Exercise 8

Write the following years in figures

1. 
   nineteen ninety-eight--------------------------------------------------------
   
2. 
   eighteen sixty-two ----------------------------------------------------------
   
3. 
   seventeen eighty-two---------------------------------------------------------
   
4. 
   fifteen fifteen--------------------------------------------------------------
   
5. 
   nineteen seventy- two--------------------------------------------------------