Skills building 1: listening for statistics and descriptions
In this part, you are to learn to gain information from statistics. And listen for fractions, decimals, percentages and descriptions of statistics.
1. Let’s first review the expressions of fractions, decimals and percentages.
1/2 (a/one half) 2/3 (two thirds) 4/7 (four/sevenths)
0.45(zero/ nought point four five) 9.89(nine point eight nine) 6.79 six point seven nine
58% (fifty-eight per cent) 36.36%(thirty-six point three six )
2. Go over Point 1 on page 12 how to read fractions, decimals and percentages. N ow, let’s turn to and learn them together.
3. Go over Point 2 on page 12 to make sure you know how to describe an increase, a decrease, no change, trends,
