Self-study activity:
How do you pronounce these figures?
99%
120 million
0.3%
0.01%
1928 (year)
2000 (year)
3.1m
$131bn
2011 (year)
$26,487
$270.5m
1970s (decade)
$100,000
99.99%
Now watch this The Guardian video Occupy protesters say it is 99% which I discovered through Larry Ferlazzo and check whether you got the pronunciation of these figures right while you learn more details about the Occupy movement in the US.
Although the level of the video is high, Básico 2 students can watch it to revise the pronunciation of numbers in English.
You can read the transcript here.
