C. Reading/Speaking/Maths operations

In ‘Read All About It’ on pages 20-21 of English Now No 85, you learnt all about numbers. Now, try this exercise to test your maths in English! Read each operation below aloud. Then, for each operation, drag and drop its correct result in letters from the list below to complete the sentence.
thirty-twosixty-fourthirty-seventwentythirty-fourone hundredtenforty-sevenone thousandforty-nine

  • A. 14 + 20 = ?
    Fourteen plus twenty equals
    ______
    .
  • B. 60/6 = ?
    Sixty divided by six is
    ______
    .
  • C. (30 x 5) – 50 = ?
    (Thirty times five) minus fifty is
    ______
    .
  • D. (2 + 5) x 7 = ?
    (Two plus five) multiplied by seven is
    ______
    .
  • E. 56 – 19 = ?
    Fifty-six minus nineteen is
    ______
    .
  • F. (50 x 2) x 10 = ?
    (Fifty times two) multiplied by ten is
    ______
    .
  • G. 128/2 = ?
    One hundred and twenty-eight divided by two is
    ______
    .
  • H. (32 x 4) / 4 = ?
    (Thirty-two times four) divided by four is
    ______
    .
  • I. (150 + 70) – 200 = ?
    (One hundred and fifty plus seventy) minus two hundred is
    ______
    .
  • J. 94/2 = ?
    Ninety-four divided by two is
    ______
    .

cover For more information about maths operations in English, read our ‘Read All About It’ article on pages 20-21 of English Now No 71. There, you will learn how to do the four basic maths operations in English: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

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