Ex.9. Use the numbers as adjectives. Be attentive with all the necessary changes

1. forty five minute s, a lesson – a forty-five- minute lesson

2. two hour s, a trip – a two- hour trip

3. twenty minutes, a walk – _________________________

4. seventy-five dollars, a price cut – ___________________

5. twelve weeks, a semester – ________________________

6. twenty degrees, a fall in temperature – _______________

7. twenty thousand pounds, a car – ____________________

8. forty thousands, a loan – __________________________

9. fifteen percent, a discount – ________________________

10. ten tons, a truck – ______________________________

Ex.10. Samantha Baretti has just returned to the office after her marketing trip to Malaysia. She turns on the answer phone and hears the following messages. Complete her notes in a numerical form.

Marketing meeting scheduled for the tenth of April at two o’clock in room three. Expected to last two hours. Please confirm you can attend by phoning extension sixty-five, double six.

Marketing meeting on ______ at ______. in ______. Call ext. ______.

New shelving for your office to be delivered on the eleventh of March after ten o’clock. Dimensions are four point five metres wide, two point eight metres in length and forty centimetres deep. Please ring two six two seven three one if this time is not convenient.

Delivery on ______ after ______. Dimensions: ______. Ring ______.

Don’t understand your marketing expenses. Your receipts are for one hundred and fifty pounds, five hundred euros, one thousand fifty Indonesian rupiahs, and seven thousand four hundred and sixty Malaysian ringgits. This does not convert to eight hundred sixteen pounds. Please ring accounts.

Marketing receipts: _____________________________________________

Ex.11. List your three biggest monthly expenses. Say how much you spend each month on rent, food, shopping, transportation, and/or entertainment.

Ex.12. Ask each member of your mini-group about their expenses. Compare group averages. You can start your questions in the following way:

A: Susan, how much do you spend on __________ (telephone, electricity, room payment, food, entertainment)?

B: Oh, I spend about __________. What about you?

C: Nothing, I live with my parents but every month I spend _______ on _______.