jueves, 28 de febrero de 2013

HOW TO READ YEARS


BC Before Christ

AC After Christ  o AD Anno Domine (latín)

1 year one

66 year sixty-six

400 year four hundred

432 Two ways to red:  a) five hundred and thirty two
                                  b) five hundred thirty two

1000 one thousand

1003 ten O three (We read Ó no ZERO)

1066 ten sixty six (we read the numbers in two)

1200 twelve hundred

1800 eighteen hundred

2000 two thousnd

2001 two thousand and one (We read the last number putting and before it)

2010 two ways to read  a ) two thousand and teen
                                   b) twenty ten

2013 two thousand and thirteen  or twenty thirteen

CENTURIES

5 The fith century 

19 the nineteen century

20 the twentieth century

21 the twenty-first century

DECADES

20´S The twenties

80´S The eighties

But, it decades are the decades of the twentieth century. The decades of the nineteenth century are this.

1850-1859 the eighteen fifties.