Name: スタディイングリッシュ-シリーズ1 第22話「ファイナンスレポート (Study English - Series 1, Episode 22: Finance Report)
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Hello. I'm Margot Politis. Welcome to another episode of Study English, IELTS preparation.

Today we're going to listen to a finance report. It's filled with numbers and amounts, expressed

It's important to be able to understand and describe numerical data using decimals, fractions

The Australian dollar, today Tuesday the 11th of November, continues to rise against the

US dollar, buying just over 70 cents, a 15 year high.

Against other currencies, however, the trend is a little different, falling against the

pound, closing at 0.425, a slight drop on yesterday, and 0.61 euros. The yen is also

strengthening at 71.95, and considerably higher against the greenback at 111.03 yen.

The Dow Jones Index closed today at 9809.79, a fall of 47.18 on yesterday's trading.

The Sydney Stock Market doubled its trading yesterday with BHP Billiton trading heavily.

The latest retail figures showed that turnover grew by 3.2% in the June quarter, the fastest

quarterly growth rate for five and a half years. At the same time, unemployment fell

to its lowest level in twelve and a half years.

OK, first we're going to look at decimals, and how you express them. Listen carefully

In English, decimals are written with a point, not a comma.

When you say the numbers after the decimal point, you say them all separately, as individual

nine thousand eight hundred and nine point seven nine

Notice that a zero is often spoken as 'oh'.

three hundred and twenty six point oh one

nine hundred and two point three oh eight

You can hear that when using numbers, there are often alternatives, and many choices you

So conversationally, we would usually say one hundred and eleven point oh three, but

will also often hear one hundred and eleven point zero three.

Here, we could say: zero point four two five

nought point four two five or even just point four two five

Notice that in North America, people usually say zero, not nought or 'oh'.

OK, now the other way of expressing numbers less than one is using fractions.

She uses the most common fraction - a half.

Notice that once you understand the pattern, you can express any fraction you want.

OK, now listen again to some of the report. Listen for different currencies:

There were a number of different currencies mentioned in that clip:

the pound; the euro; the yen; the greenback.

In Australia, the Australian dollar is usually expressed with the dollar sign.

But internationally, it's written like this AUD. We read this the Australian dollar.

In United States, they use the dollar as well. It's the USD, the United States dollar. But

often called the greenback, because it's green.

In Great Britain they use the pound. It is written GBP, but it's often called the pound

In the European Union, they use the euro dollar, written like this - EUR.

In China, it's the yuan, written CNY, and the renminbi, RMB.

Notice that we write the currency before the number, but we say it after the number.

three thousand, four hundred and seventy Japanese yen

one hundred and ninety two Australian dollars

Notice that when spoken naturally the one often becomes 'a' and the 'and' becomes squashed.

We don't say one hundred and ninety two but a hundred n ninety two.

a hundred and twenty seven thousand, three hundred and twenty two Hong Kong dollars

OK, now let's listen to the report again, and then we'll look at another important use

Notice that she says Tuesday the 11th of November.

Saying simple things like the date can be confusing in English, as the way they're said