Tuesday, January 19, 2010

NuMBERS & FIGURES

One hundred (100) 20:twenty : twentieth 20th
5th = fifth
one/two... thousand 15 fifteen => 13-19= teens/teenagers
80: eighty
90:ninety

midday = midi midnight =minuit
half ; quarter past five ; quarter to six
1.5=> 1 point 5 million
des centaines de = hundreds of
des milliers de = thousands of
1/3 : one third ; le tiers monde = third world
2/5 : two fifth
% : percent
2/3 : two-tier :
Société à 2 vitesses comme en Inde :
-200 million rich /well-off : wealthy people
-800 million poor starving people =>destitute

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