Answer for exercise 1
The solution for exercise 1 in chapter 06 - Listening of Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave
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)