Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 06 - Listening for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

How do you say the dates in the box? What approximate dates do the other time expressions refer to?

Answer

  • 5000 BC - five thousand 'bee 'cee'
  • 3200 BC - three thousand two hundred 'bee 'cee'
  • 1600 - sixteen hundred
  • 1850 - eighteen fifty
  • the 1860s - the eighteen sixties
  • 2050 - twenty fifty
  • the 7th century AD (= 600-699 AD)
  • the 17th century (= 1600-1699)
  • the mid 16th century (= around 1550)
  • the late 18th century (= 1770-1799)
  • the next decade or so (= in the next 10 years)
  • within 30 years (= in the next 30 years)
  • the beginning of the 21st century (= 2000-2010)