ESL WORKSHEET - Numbers

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

NUMBERS

LinguaHouse

Feb. 17, 2025

Level: Pre-Intermediate (A2-B1)
Type of language: General English
Tags: Numbers; Telling the Time; Paraphrasing and Explaining; Speaking; Vocabulary Lesson; 13-15 Years Old; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old
Publication date: 02/17/2025

In this updated lesson plan, students review and extend how to express a variety of number formats. The lesson includes practice in listening, speaking and pronunciation and includes an optional extension activity covering useful vocabulary for describing inexact numbers or amounts. (by Stephanie Hirschman)

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in British English.
• CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audio in British English.

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

ONE

Person A: Brrr! I’m glad I wore my hat. Aren’t you freezing in just that jacket?
Person B: Yeah, I guess I am. But I didn’t realize it was going to be so cold today.
Person A: Really? The weather forecast said it was going to go as low as three or four degrees today and even get down to minus five tonight.
Person B: Five below zero? That must be a record for around here.
Person A: Yeah, it’s the coldest January day since nineteen twenty-seven.
Person B: Well, I hope the train isn’t delayed.
Person A: Me too.

TWO

Person C: I have some news for you! Amanda had her baby last night – just after midnight it was, I think, twelve thirty something. A little girl.
Person D: Really? That’s amazing – that’s my sister’s birthday – the second of November! I can’t wait to cuddle her. Tell me more.
Person C: Well, she weighed seven point eight four pounds. That’s about average these days, I think. John says they’re both doing very well.
Person D: Do you have his number? I want to send him a message.
Person C: Let me find it. It’s oh six eight, seven four three, oh two double four.
Person D: Thanks. I’ll just ask if I can do anything to help.
Person C: Good idea.

THREE

Person E: Could I check some information with you before the meeting later? Like, can you tell me how many items we sold in Northern Ireland in the last quarter?
Person F: Let me see... I’d say it was just over a hundred and twelve thousand.
Person E: Great. How does that compare with our sales in Scotland?
Person F: Look, I have a pie chart here for all our UK markets. Sales in Northern Ireland accounted for just over thirty percent of our total sales.
Person E: Thirteen percent? That’s not very good.
Person F: No, I said thirty – around one-third. It’s better than Scotland. We only sold ninety-one thousand five hundred and fifty units there.
Person E: Can you send me that pie chart? I could use it for my presentation.

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