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Listening Trending Numbers in the Listening Test: Date, Time, Telephone, Credit cardIn all part of the IELTS test, you will encounter numbers in different forms. Today we will break down the variety of numbers you might see in each part of your IELTS test and how to structure them.ashish 0 2,821 4 minutes read It is common in IELTS to be asked to listen for a number. The most common number that IELTS use is the number 15 / 50. Many students have a problem with hearing the difference between these numbers. Show
You might hear numbers in the following forms
A Common Mistake with Numbers and a Trick to Help You:Can you tell the difference between 16 and 60? Related Articles
Mistakes with teen numbers and 10 numbers are really common on the IELTS Listening Test. (Actually, native English speakers have trouble with them too!) We moved to alwaysielts, A website for IELTS news from 55+ websites.Click hereThe trick for these numbers is to realize that not only is the pronunciation different (sixteen / sixty), but there is also a difference inword stress. With sixteen,the second half of the word is stressed(we say it louder), like this: sixtEEN With sixty,the first half of the word is stressed, like this: SIXty This is the same for all of the teen numbers, and the 10s numbers. Lets go through the list for practice: 13 30 14 40 15 50 (careful, this is the hardest one!) 16 60 17 70 18 80 19 90
Big Numbers:How do we say 1300? Actually, there are two ways.
You might hear either on the IELTS Listening Test. *Note that this is only possible if the second number is not a zero!3000 is always just three thousand but 3100 can be three thousand one hundred OR thirty-one hundred! Lets go through a list of big numbers for practice: 2700 27,000 270,000 2,700,000
Money:Since the IELTS relates to all English speaking countries, you may hear two different kinds of money. They are:
Dollars are used in most English speaking countries (Canada, USA, Australia) while pounds are used in the United Kingdom. When listening to amounts, numbers can be said in different ways.Ascorrectspelling isimportantin the Listening test, a good tip is to write the numeral you hear, rather than writing the complete word.For example:
Pay attention to the test paper to see whether you are listening for the word dollars or pounds; the questions will always be marked with either the $ or the £ symbols.
Telephone Numbers:Telephone numbers are quite common in Section 1 and 2 of the listening test. You should learn the pronunciation of numbers in general, but there are also two tricks the IELTS listening test often uses:
Watch this lesson to test yourself on listening for these difficult numbers and also review the pronunciation. MeasurementsYou may hear different measurementsin your test. For example, you might hear measurements as:
Youcanabbreviate the word when writing these measurements as numbers.For example, you can write 60kilometresas:
DatesDates can be written in a variety of ways. You can use the number or word form, as well as abbreviate days of the weekormonths of the year.For example:
Be careful with ordinal numbers.Most ordinal numbers end with th except for:
If youwrite, for example,2th,thiswill be marked as incorrectas the correct format is2nd. TimeAlthough times can besaid differently,it isgenerally written in the same way.When writing time, make sure you know what quarter past, quarter to, and half past mean.For example:
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