IELTS Preparation Series 3, Episode 16: Listening for Numbers
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Hello, and welcome to Study English, IELTS Preparation. I'm Margot Politis.
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In the Listening Module of the IELTS Test you can expect to be asked questions about
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numbers.
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So it's important to be familiar with how we talk about numbers.
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First, listen to the numbers in this clip about a wind farm in Tasmania:
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Each tower that you can see can generate enough power for between seven and eight hundred
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houses.
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'between seven hundred and eight hundred houses'
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When numbers are exact or a clear approximation such as 'between seven hundred and eight hundred',
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the word 'hundred' has no final 's'. The plural is formed by the following noun: 'between
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seven hundred and eight hundred houses'.
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For an exact figure you say: seven hundred houses.
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You can use a preposition to be less exact and say: over seven hundred houses; around
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seven hundred houses; about seven hundred houses; nearly seven hundred houses or under
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seven hundred houses.
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When we state a number, such as seven hundred or eight thousand there is no 's' after the
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unit - four hundred, ten thousand, or five million.
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So when do we add 's' to these words?
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Listen to the man in the next clip use 'hundreds' to describe the slow change from one type
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of forest to another:
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There have probably been three lots of logging since white settlement in the 1860s. In time,