From One to One Million

Vocabulary: Cardinal Numbers

Language: Give Information

Number Words

0zero
1one
2two
3three
4four
5five
6six
7seven
8eight
9nine
10ten
11eleven
12twelve
13thirteen
14fourteen
15fifteen
16sixteen
17seventeen
18eighteen
19nineteen
20twenty
21twenty-one
22twenty-two
23twenty-three
24twenty-four
25twenty-five
26twenty-six
27twenty-seven
28twenty-eight
29twenty-nine
30thirty
40forty
50fifty
60sixty
70seventy
80eighty
90ninety
100one hundred
101one hundred one
500five hundred
550five hundred fifty
1,000one thousand
1,151one thousand, one hundred fifty-one
5,000five thousand
10,000ten thousand
100,000one hundred thousand
500,000five hundred thousand
1,000,000 Put commas after the millions place and the thousands place.one million
seventeen million, four hundred thousand

seventeen million, four hundred thousand

Oral Language Practice

GIVE INFORMATION

Work with a partner. Read each fact about China in 2007. Say a sentence with each fact. Begin your sentence with China has.

    Example
  • 1. China has seventy-five thousand, four hundred thirty-eight kilometers of railways.

  • 1. 75,438 kilometers of railways rebus art: a train

  • 2. 467 airports rebus art: a plane

  • 3. 795,300,000 workers rebus art: workers

  • 4. 461,100,000 cellular phones rebus art: a cell phone

  • 5. 3,240 television stations rebus art: a TV antenna

  • 6. 448,000,000 televisions rebus art: a TV

Written Practice Illustration of the pen icon

7.–10. Work with a partner to find numbers in your classroom. Write 4 sentences each with the numbers you find. Write words for the numbers.

    Example
  • 7. Our classroom has thirty-three desks.