Skills Reading years
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Look at the pictures.
Ask and answer as in the example.
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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
2
1
Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901)
Italian composer
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 bor?
B: In 1881.
A: When did she die?
B: In 1931.
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