Students are introduced to and practice using ordinal numbers. Ordinal numbers are used when talking about dates, fractions, floors in a building, rank in competitions and sporting events such as the Olympics, and listing points in an essay or article. Ordinal numbers can involve pronunciation problems like consonant clusters and extra added syllables, e.g. thirteenth and thirtieth as well as pronouncing -th. This handout can be used as a way of introducing these pronunciation points with students asking and answering questions about floors in a department store.
Ordinal Numbers
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Elementary: A2Pre-Intermediate: A2+
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3 student pagesTeaching notes
Teaching time 60 mins
Language functions Asking and answering questions
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Questions and answersReadingSentence completion
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