Lesson: Using Numbers

Welcome to Everyday English.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use numbers in your daily life.

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Vocabulary and Grammar

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How Many and How Much

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Countable and Uncountable Nouns

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Measuring Using Numbers

Length is the measurement of something from end to end.

Weight is the measurement of how heavy an object is.
Volume is how much space something takes up.
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Reading Large Numbers

We can use the digits 0 to 9 in many combinations to

create large numbers.

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Word Meanings

Centimetre (cm): a measurement of length hundred times smaller than a metre

Gram (g): the standard measurement of weight
Kilogram (kg): a measurement of weight thousand times greater than a gram
Kilometre (km): a measurement of length or distance that is a thousand times
greater than a metre
Lakh: one hundred thousand
Length: measurement of something from end to end
Litre (l): the standard measurement of volume
Metre (m): the standard measurement of length
Mililitre (ml): a measurement of volume thousand times smaller than a litre
Million: ten lakhs
Volume: measurement of how much space something takes up
Weight: measurement of how heavy an object is
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Pair Activity

15 Minutes
Find a partner for this activity. (1 minute)
Take a ruler and measure the lengths of 10 objects in the classroom. Write the
measurements in your notebook and order them from shortest to longest.
(9 minutes)
Then, present your findings to your class. (5 minutes)
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Group Activity
List four countable nouns and four
uncountable nouns in your notebook. (5
minutes)
Form groups of four and arrange
yourselves into a circle. (5 minutes)
Read out a word at random from your list.
The person on your left should use it in a
question with how much or how many.
For example, if your word is water, the
group member to your left should call out
How much water?
Then, the person to the left of that group
member answers with a specific
measurement. For example: 1 litre of
water. Then, she calls out a word from
her list, and the person to her left forms
the correct question.
Continue until all the words in the list are
done. (15 minutes)

25 Minutes

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Group Activity

15 Minutes

Form groups of six. (2 minutes)

The first student to start should call out one number, for example, three.
The student to his/her left should add one digit to that number and call it out. For
example, seventy-three.
The next student to the left should add one more digit to that number and call it out. For
example, two hundred and seventy-three.
Keep going until you reach a seven-digit number. Note down this number in your
notebooks. Play the game until you have noted down four seven-digit numbers in your
group. (8 minutes)
Finally, discuss with the whole class what you found easy and what you found difficult in
this game. (5 minutes)
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Class Activity
The teacher will divide the class into
two teams, A and B.
The teacher will choose one student
from Team A and one student from
Team B.
The student from Team A should write
a large number on the board, for
example, 24,56,389.
If the student from Team B reads it out
correctly, Team B should get 5 points.
Then, another student from Team B
and one from Team A should be
chosen.
This time, the Team B student writes
the number and the Team A student
reads it out.
The first team to reach 50 points wins.

15 Minutes

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Action Plan

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