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Answer — Exercise 1

06 - Listening·Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

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)
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Ex. 3