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Years and ages

Name:Date:

Hear years and ages in a personal story.

Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.

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Words to know

born
Starting life; brought into the world.
older
Having lived for more years.
built
Made, for example a house or a school.

Answer key

  1. I was born in 1998.Years are read in pairs: “nineteen ninety-eight” is 1998.
  2. My grandfather was born in 1945.“Nineteen forty-five” is 1945.
  3. We moved to London in 2010.“Twenty ten” is 2010; some people say “two thousand and ten”.
  4. My sister is 4 years older than me.Write 4 or four.
  5. Our school was built over 100 years ago.Write 100 or “a hundred”.