Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Lesson 424. The title of today's lesson
is how to read money in English. Yeah. A lot of students have problems with this,
especially beginners and even sometimes some more advanced students have
problems and I did notice when the number is bigger they have more problems
too. All right. But let's look at the rules
of the way you should do it. Read the amount of money first. The whole
number. Okay. Then the currency. So you read the currency second, and if coinage
a lot of times there's no coinage, but if coinage has a name in the currency add it
at the end. Okay. So let's, let's start with something simple.
Obviously this over here we should read this as 15 US dollars. Yeah. So you're
reading the 15 first and then you're reading the currency US dollars. Okay.
Good. What you don't do is read it as US
dollars 15. That of course would be wrong. All right. Now let's look at the next one.
All right. Now this one does have coinage. So what would be correct ? You would say a
155 ... now if you wanted to read the currency here. If they have the currency
in you would read it as 155 US Dollars and 34 cents. But you don't have to here, if it's
understood. You just simply read it's $155.34.
Okay. Now what you don't do... is you don't do this where it has the X. You don't
mean it is $155 point 34. You don't read that. Sometimes students make a mistake
they will read the coinage as point. We don't use the word point in coinage. We
say cents, You know 34 cents. We don't say point 34. Okay. Let's look at the next one
here. Now you know sometimes if you're buying something, You know, if you were in
the US and somebody asks how much ? They would just they just might now if you're
in the country they're probably not going to say you US dollars. They'll just
say 155. 34. They could just answer that.
Without even saying the word dollars or they could say $155.34. They can do it
either way. Okay. Let's continue. Now another tricky part is remember I'd tell
you don't read point in coinage, but you do read the point in really, really large
numbers. So we have an example here. The budget is 5.2 billion dollars. Okay. In
really large numbers. There's no coinage here this is like really large amounts
of money or you know that it costs seven point three trillion dollars. You do read
points in really, really large amounts of money. If the whole number is written out. I
wouldn't read it as a point. I just read it normal. So you could say the budget is
like here in this case you could say, three million two hundred thousand US
dollars. So if you have the whole number written out like that don't read points
just read as whenever you see. Three million two hundred thousand US dollars.
All right. And you know , of course we have other currencies here. We say the bill
comes to twenty four pounds and 30 pence. So the British say pence, Americans say
cents. Okay. All right. So again you wouldn't do the same thing. You wouldn't
read it as the bill comes to twenty four point ..30 pounds. You don't read it
that way. The British sometimes will use the word
P instead of pence. Yeah. So they could say you know, twenty four pounds and
thirty P instead of pence. They do sometimes say that and they do the same
thing that Americans do like if you were there in Britain you say, how much ? They
just might say twenty four thirty. Meaning, meaning and it's assumed you
understand this. Twenty four pounds and 30 pence. Okay good. All right. Now the
next thing to really watch out for that even advanced students who know how to
read money pretty well already. Sometimes still mess up on this one.
When the money is an adjective read it as singular. Okay. So
of course here we should read it as she owns a $2,000 computer so $2,000. Two-thousand dollar
in adjective. Computer is noun. What you don't do is you don't say she owns a
two-thousands dollar computer. Sometimes students will do that because they know 2,000 is in
the plural so you must be reading it with an "S. " So sometimes they'll say it
that way but if it's an adjective it's still read as a singular. Okay. Anyway , I
hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.
bye bye,