The document provides guidelines for writing and pronouncing dates, numbers, and years in English. It states that dates should be written with ordinal numbers and in the format of January 1st but said as "the first of January." Years until 2000 should be said as two pairs of numbers like "nineteen sixty-five." Years after 2000 require saying "two thousand and." Zero can be said as "nil," "love," or "nought point" depending on context. Basic math operations like addition and multiplication should be said using words like "plus" and "times."

1. Dates and
Numbers in
English

2. Dates
In English, we write the
dates in the following
format:
1 st January/ January 1 st
But we pronounce it:
The first of January /
January the first.

3. Remember to use ordinal
numbers for dates in English.
1-First 2-
Second
3-Third 4-
Fourth
5-Fifth 6-
Sixth

4. 11-Eleventh 12-
Twelfth
13-Thirteenth 14-
Fourteenth
15-Fifteenth 16-
Sixteenth
17-Seventeenth 18-
Eighteenth

5. 21-twenty-first 22-twenty-
second
23-twenty-third 24twenty-
fourth
25-twenty-fifth 26-
twenty-sixth
27-twenty-seventh 28-twenty-
eighth
29-twenty-ninth 30-

6. Years
For years up until 2000, we
separate the four numbers
into two
pairs of two:
Ex.
1965 = nineteen sixty-five
1871 = eighteen seventy-
one

7. Years
For this decade, you need to
say
"two thousand and —-“
Ex. 2001 = two thousand and
one
2009 = two thousand and
nine

8. Saying 0
Depending on the context, we can
pronounce zero in different ways:
2-0 (football) = Two nil
30 – 0 (tennis) = Thirty love
604 7721 (phone number) = six oh four
double seven two one
0.4 (a number) = nought point
four / zero
point four
0C (temperature) = zero

9. Talking about calculations in
English
+ (plus)
2 + 1 = 3 (two plus one equals three)
- (minus / take away)
5–3=2
(five minus three equals two / five take away three
equals two)
x (multiplied by / times)
2x3=6
(two multiplied by three equals six / two times three
equals six)
/ (divided by)
6 / 3 = 2 (six divided by three equals two)