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      Big numbers!
      Submitted by ellenpd on 4 April, 2012 - 10:57

      Lots of our students have problems with big numbers. Sometimes they don’t know where to say ‘and’. Sometimes they confuse numbers like ‘sixteen’ and ‘sixty’. In this lesson students revise big numbers in a fun way. First they play a guessing game, then they play Bingo! They finish with a pair work jigsaw reading activity.

      Topic: Big numbers

      Level: Lower intermediate B1

      Aims:

      • To help students say big numbers correctly
      • To help students understand big numbers correctly
      • To develop students’ speaking and listening skills

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      Lesson plan: download

      Worksheets: download

      By Katherine Bilsborough

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      shakul9's picture
      shakul9
      thank you
      Submitted on 5 April, 2012 - 09:09

      thank you for such a wonderful lesson!

      ezwn_boy's picture
      ezwn_boy
      thank you
      Submitted on 8 April, 2012 - 09:04

      I had just completed the download and will benefit from it. Thank you

      ba_sbarbati's picture
      ba_sbarbati
      Big Numbers
      Submitted on 8 April, 2012 - 17:33

      Nice activity! Very clear and useful. Thanks.

      dozymare's picture
      dozymare
      Big Numbers Lesson
      Submitted on 9 April, 2012 - 18:13

      Brilliant.  I used this this morning with a group of lower intermediate 12 - 14 year olds.  They loved it.  There is a slight problem with the pairwork activity as some of the answers were missing completely and some had the same answer on each sheet.  I didn't notice before the lesson.  Make sure you re-type the worksheets before your lesson!

      Antonio Banares's picture
      Antonio Banares
      Figures around the world
      Submitted on 10 April, 2012 - 10:26

      Kilimanjaro, 5898 metres high

      The Burj Khalifa building in Dubai is 2717 feet high.

      I carried my head a couple of inches higher as I climbed down from them..

       by the by, the Yangstze river was 6418 km long. Peace and love,

       

      Sally Trowbridge's picture
      Sally Trowbridge
      TE Team
      Big numbers
      Submitted on 11 April, 2012 - 08:47

      Thanks a million to Dozymare for pointing out the error and to Antonio for providing the numbers! We'll have this fixed as soon as possible.

      Sally

      ellenpd's picture
      ellenpd
      TE Team
      Worksheets now correct
      Submitted on 11 April, 2012 - 21:18

      Hi everyone,

      Sorry for the problems with the worksheets. They are correct now.

      Best wishes,

      Ellen

      TeachingEnglish Team

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      franagresti
      Big Numbers
      Submitted on 18 May, 2012 - 06:57

      Great work. We teachers sometimes forget or underestimate the reading of big numbers. This fun lesson is handy to have. Thanks.

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      marinamargoshvili
      Thank you
      Submitted on 10 October, 2012 - 19:39

      thank you