[Laughter]
hi guys welcome back to english with max
today i have a listening practice for
you
more specifically a numbers listening
practice
this video will be useful for anyone
learning english
but you can also use it as exam
preparation
particularly if you're preparing for the
ielts
just quickly remember that you can watch
this video with
english subtitles if you want however
there won't be any subtitles when we do
the actual
listening practice and of course
remember that you can also follow me on
social media i've been wanting to do
this video for
a long time because well
numbers are hard i don't want to sound
negative or pessimistic
but in general understanding numbers in
a foreign language will always be a bit
more difficult
than in your native language if you've
watched my videos before
you will know that when i lived in paris
i studied conference interpreting for a
while
it was a good school all of the teachers
there were professional
experienced interpreters and even they
said that understanding numbers quickly
could often be a challenge before that
i just thought that i found it hard in
my foreign languages
because i hadn't done enough listening
practice
and that one day it would be just as
easy
as in my native language but
no it's actually quite rare for that
to happen however that doesn't mean that
you can't
improve with practice and that is what
we are going to do
today this is how it will work
i'm going to read out sentences that
each have a number in them
i'm not just going to read out a list of
numbers because
i don't think that's very realistic
normally when we hear numbers they are
surrounded by
other words so what i want you to do
is get a piece of paper and write
one to ten two times
we are going to do two sets of ten
pause the video here if you need to
then when i read out a sentence i want
you to write
the number as well as what is being
counted for example if i say
there are 10 500 trees in that forest
you need to write 10 500
trees or if i say
that jacket cost 214.95
you need to write this or this
give yourself one point if you get the
number right
and one point if you get the thing
or the unit right so
the maximum score you can get for one
set
is 20 points i'll put the answers at the
end of the video
like in the ielts you will only hear
each sentence
once
set number one number one
jenny has a total of 35
dresses
number two my new computer
cost eight hundred and seventy dollars
number three bob has 128 pencils
in that drawer i guess bob likes pencils
number four there were 3
250 people at the concert
number five the table in that room
is 2.75 meters
long number six
the population of that tiny village over
there
is 586.
number seven the peak
of mount kilimanjaro is 5895 meters
above sea level
number eight this apartment
cost four hundred and sixty three
thousand dollars
number nine the company's profit last
year
after tax was 1.47 million
pounds
number 10 the total number of students
currently enrolled at this university
is thirty nine thousand eight hundred
and forty one
okay now we'll do set number two
number one this nail polish
comes in 68 different colors
number two there are
274 sweets in that
candy jar
number three frank
has seen the movie top gun 115
times
number four those shoes
cost 130 pounds 15.
number five that entrepreneur's
net worth is estimated at 40 million
pounds
number six there are about
242 000 species
in that rainforest
number seven that city
has a population of about five
million five hundred thousand
number eight three hundred and sixty
thousand dollars
was the amount our business paid in tax
last year
number nine it is estimated
that there are about 200 billion stars
in our galaxy
number 10 the total area
of australia is seven
million six hundred and ninety two
thousand
and twenty four square kilometers
and that is all you will see the answers
right after this you might want to pause
the video
to read them all properly let me know
your score
in the comments if you want to share it
i just have one announcement before i go
i've recently started doing
live classes on youtube
uh some are better for people in asia
and in europe and some will be more
convenient for people
in north and south america so i'll be
doing them at different times
i'll announce them in advance on
instagram and
facebook as well as in the discussion
section
on my youtube channel
but in any case if you miss them you can
watch them later
on my channel i hope you found that
useful if you did please hit the thumbs
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like to improve their english please
share it with them see you next time
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