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Different ways of Saying Numbers- Reversi

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Students practise the different ways that they might hear numbers pronounced with a memory card game based on Othello, including different ways of saying large and small numbers.

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Different ways of saying numbers reversi

Instructions for teachers

Cut up one set of cards per group of two to four students so that each card has two boxes with the two versions of the number together, i.e. don’t cut between “one million” and “a million”. Get rid of any cards which are too difficult or not useful for your students, but make sure that there are still at least twelve cards.

Deal out the cards and ask the students to fold them so that the two versions of the numbers are on opposite sides of the card. It doesn’t matter which side is up at the beginning of the game.

There are several ways of playing the game, all of which involve students trying to say what is on the other side of the card, leaving them the other way up if their guess is correct. The next person can then do the same with the same cards, with different cards or with a mix of new and old cards. The different games are:

  • Students choose any cards they like to guess the other side of each time, with highest total number of correct guesses (added up over the length of the game) winning
  • Students choose any cards they like each time, with the longest uninterrupted string of correct guesses during the game (e.g. ten cards in a row one time) winning
  • Students put all the cards into a column and have to start from the bottom of the column each time, with the person who gets furthest up the column winning (like climbing and falling down a ladder)

After finishing the game, the students can test each other on different ways of saying the same numbers, and then say similar numbers for other students to say other ways.

 

Cards to cut up

 

one million

 

 

 

a million

 

a billion/ one billion

 

a thousand million

 

two million three hundred thousand

 

 

two point three million

 

two hundred ten

 

two hundred and ten

 

one thousand six hundred

 

 

sixteen hundred

 

one billion four hundred million

 

one point four billion

 

a half/ one half/ fifty percent

 

 

zero point five/ nought point five

 

minus five degrees

 

five degrees below (zero)

 

 

 

a lot/ a large number

 

 

many/ loads/ tonnes

 

 

 

zero/ nil

 

nought/ oh/ love

 

zero one seven three two four five nine

 

 

oh one seven three two four five nine

 

seven seven two two three three

 

double seven double two double three

 

around thirty five/ about thirty five

 

 

approximately thirty five/ more or less thirty five

 

just under fifty

 

nearly fifty/ almost fifty

 

exactly seven hundred

 

 

precisely seven hundred

 

hundreds

 

several hundred

 

a couple

 

 

 

two or three

 

just seven

 

only seven

 

three hundred and ten thousand

 

 

three hundred ten thousand

 

half a million

 

five hundred thousand

 

half a billion

 

 

 

five hundred million

 

one point five

 

one and a half

 

seventy five percent/ nought point seven five

 

 

three quarters/ three fourths/ zero point seven five

 

a thousand billion

 

a trillion

 

one point two five

 

 

 

one and a quarter

 

a minute

 

sixty seconds

 

zero point zero two

 

 

 

nought point oh two

 

a third/ one third

 

thirty three point three (recurring) percent

           

 

 

 

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