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Telephone and fax numbers
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- 9. Addresses
- 10. Days, months and dates
- "SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN THE MODERN WORLD: CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY" NUR-SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, JULY 2019
- 11. Decimals
- 13. Fractions
| 8. Telephone and fax numbers Difficulties with telephone numbers include the use of
―double‖ and ―treble‖, ―oh‖ for zero in British English , and grouping numbers together with intonation and pauses. Fun games include Find Someone Who (―Hello, is that 123 4545?‖ ―I‘m sorry, you have a wrong number. This is 123 5445.‖) and teams where each person has one number card between zero and nine rushing to stand in order to make the telephone number that the teacher calls out before the other team(s). 9. Addresses The seemingly simple question ―Where do you live?‖ can be a can of worms with problems like explaining the strange British postcode system, the order of how addresses are written in Britain and the USA by successively larger areas (first write the house number, then the street name, neighbourhood name etc), and deciding if students should convert their own addresses from how they usually write it in their own language or not (if it is even possible) when speaking English. The easiest way of avoiding these problems is just to have them answer with just one line, e.g. ―I live at number 42‖ or ―I live in Park Avenue‖ 10. Days, months and dates You can practice months or days with the same flashcard memory game as in First Second Third above (―What do I wear in January?‖ meaning what item of clothing is on the first card etc). A fun one for day/month or day/month/year is for the students to add all the numbers for the date you say together and race to shout out the total (e.g. ―Twelve!‖ for ―the first of January 2008‖ from 1+1+2+0+0+8). Problems with this point include "SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN THE MODERN WORLD: CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY" NUR-SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, JULY 2019 80 the differences in how the British and Americans write and say dates, and confusion over whether Sunday or Monday is the first day of the week. 11. Decimals Difficulties students have with decimals in English include having to say ―point two oh‖ rather than ―point twenty‖ as in many languages, and mixing up commas and decimals points. 12. Times This can actually be introduced much earlier if you stick to the ―twelve thirty five a.m.‖ method of telling times. More difficult things you can tackle at this later stage include ―past/to‖ (in some languages ―half‖ is ―half to‖ instead of ―half past‖), ―quarter‖ and ―half‖, ―five past‖ but ―three minutes past‖ etc. You can play the same number adding race and memory game (but with the 12 flashcards face down in a circle) as with Days, Months and Dates above. 13. Fractions Fractions lead on quite nicely from time or ordinal numbers as some are the same (―half‖ and ―quarter‖ are the same as for times and ―third‖, ―fifth‖, ―sixth‖ etc as the same as ordinals). You can revise percentages and decimals at the same time as introducing fractions by getting students to convert between them or by putting them all into a trivia numbers quiz. жүктеу/скачать 8,11 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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