Unit 08
Big Number
職場攻略/辦公日常
English for the workplace/Career Development
BRAIN STORM
Share your ideas with your teacher and try to make sentences.
What was the biggest amount of money that you had? How did you spend it?
VOCABULARY
Repeat these sentences after your teacher.
1. thousand (n.) 千
I will pay eight thousand dollars.
我要付八千美元。
2. quarter (n.) 四分之一
A quarter of a billion people are rich.
四分之一的十億人口富有。
3. million (n.) 一百萬
This house sold for two million dollars.
這所房子賣了兩百萬美元。
4. pieces (n.) 片;雙
Could you give me a piece of paper?
你能給我一張紙嗎？
5. hundred (n.) 百
The book set costs her a hundred dollars.
這套書花了她一百美元。
Dialogue
Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
Brook, how many customers do we have?
Brook，我們有多少客戶？
We have about 75,500 names in our database, Paul.
我們的數據庫裡有75,500個名字，Paul。
Seventy-five thousand five hundred names! How many sales?
七萬五千五百個名字！那有多少筆銷售？
We made 250,000 sales. A quarter of a million.
我們做了25萬筆交易。四分之一個百萬。
Wow. How many pieces of chocolate did we sell?
哇，那我們賣了多少巧克力？
We sold almost three million pieces of chocolate.
我們賣了差不多三百萬塊巧克力。
Three million. That is good. But many people like chocolate. Our company wants 100,000 new customers next year.
三百萬，真不錯。但是很多人都喜歡巧克力，我們公司希望明年新增十萬名新客戶。
Then we can sell 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 pieces of chocolate.
那麼我們可以賣七百萬到八百萬塊巧克力。
That totals $25,000,000.
總金額將是兩千五百萬美金。
Twenty-five million dollars is a lot of money.
兩千五百萬美金是不少錢啊。
Let's Practice
Make it right.
A : ______.
B :We have about 75,500 names in our database, Paul.
1.Brook, how many customers do we had?
2.A quarter of a million.
A :How many sales?
B : ________.
1. We made 250,000 sales.
2.Three million.
We made 250,000 sales. A __________ of a million.
1.quarter
2.half
How many __________ of chocolate did we sell?
1.pieces
2.quarter
1. 8000 = Eight ____. hundred / thousand
2. 2,500,000 = 2.5 ____. million / billion
3. Two hundred and fifty thousand is a ___ of a million. half/quarter
4. How many ___ of chocolate did we sell? pieces/pairs
5.___ customers do we have? How many / How much
6. ___ work does Lily have? How many / How much
DISCUSSION
Make a conversation with your teacher.
1.What was the smallest amount of money that you ever had? How did you spend it?
