A1 · 4 minutes · Numbers

Thirteen or thirty?

Thirteen or thirty? Fifteen or fifty? Listen to the ending and the stress. Write each number with digits or in words.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the difference between -teen and -ty numbers.

Words to know

-teen: The ending of 13 to 19. It is long and stressed.
-ty: The ending of 20, 30, 40 and so on. It is short and not stressed.
stress: The strongest part of a word.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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