Reading voor 4 553 755 Look at the pictures. Ask and answer as in the example. Agatha Christie (1890-1976) British writer Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) Spanish painter In English, we read the years as two sets of two digit numbers 1561 = fifteen sixty-one 1807 = eighteen oh seven 1972 = nineteen seventy-two BUT 2009 two thousand and nine Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Italian composer 6 James Joyce (1882-1941) Irish writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616) British playwright Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) Russian ballerina A: Who was Anna Pavlova? B: A famous Russian ballerina A: When was she born? B: In 1881. A: When did she die? B: In 1931.