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  • “I recently paid 5.44 pounds for a meal.” Whoopsie! There's a huge mistake in there.

  • I cannot say a point when I am talking about pounds. Then what do I say? Do I use a point

  • for a dollar? No, I don't. Even if I see it, I don't use it. This is the trick my dear

  • friends, welcome to the lesson my name is Michelle and today we are learning how we

  • can talk about dollar or the pound correctly, how we can use the numbers correctly and pronounce

  • them the right way. So join me and let's go.

  • So let's look at the first number that we

  • have on the board, so I hope you know that this sign means a pound, all right? This is

  • a pound which reflects the British or the currency in the UK, sorry, yeah. So which

  • reflects the currency in the UK because pound is used in UK. All right but how do we call

  • this do we call this one point four five pounds, do we? In mathematics ideally we would call

  • this one point four five but when you are talking about the British pound you would

  • say 1.45. You have to pay 1.45 for this meal or you gotta pay 1.45 for buying this marker,

  • something like that, all right? So it should be one-forty-five, great. Now let's look at

  • the next one this is a dollar, all right and this currency is used in the USA. One of the

  • most common currency, sorry it's used in the US. Would we say this as 2.80? No just like

  • pound we would also call this 280. So these two words come together as eighty not eight

  • zero. So two-eighty you must pay 2.80. So if someone tells you in the US that you gotta

  • pay 2.80 you do not have to pay $280 but you have to pay instead 2.80 but this is not how

  • we call it so actually this is a dollar and these are the cents what are cents? We'll

  • come down to what are cents later in the lesson and I'll also tell you what is a pence but

  • later in the lesson. Let's look further this is 50 pounds here we said 1.45 and we did

  • not say the word pounds and here we said 2.80 and we did not say the word dollar how about

  • this one should we say 50 no whenever you have a full digit that is you have only pounds

  • and no other pence, not a pence after it that's when you say 50 pounds to make it clear. So

  • you would call this as 50 pounds and here as well when you have a full figure a whole

  • figure and not an approximate figure you would call it seven hundred and sixty dollars. Seven

  • hundred and sixty dollars. Great! Now let's look further, what's this? This is a hundred

  • pounds or is this 100 pounds? So it's alright and collect to see it's one hundred pounds,

  • it's not wrong but you would mostly hear native speakers in the Britain say that it's a hundred

  • pounds and not it's one hundred pounds. So one is replaced by ‘a’ even when you're

  • talking about currency not just English. So it is a hundred pounds. Great now let's look

  • at another figure where we are talking about dollars but we have more than a hundred pounds

  • we have 134 pounds or do we still call it a hundred and thirty-four pounds well even

  • right now, sorry dollars, my bad! We'd still call it a hundred and thirty four dollars.

  • So the trick is any digit that starts with one you will replace it with ‘a’ and not

  • say the one so it could be a million or a hundred million or a hundred and thirty-four

  • million or a hundred and fifty million or a hundred and thirty-four pounds, dollars.

  • I love pound too much it seems. A hundred and thirty-four dollars. Great this is fun

  • we are talking money, we all love to talk money. Let's go further so as I promised you

  • I would come to Pence and cents, what are pence and cents? So we have one pound all

  • right and further we can have two pounds three pounds four pounds but any figure which is

  • less than one pound is quantified in terms of pence, the word is pence, p-e-n-c-e. So

  • we have 50 pence so basically this is the digit that you'll always see after the point

  • and if there is no point this means that we are talking exclusively about fifty pence,

  • something that you can buy for 50 pence it's got to be really cheap to buy something for

  • 50 pence in the UK you'd rarely get something but you will for sure. So here try this which

  • one is the pound and which one is the pence? We know that one is the pound and forty-five

  • is the pence. So we would say 1 pound 45 pence or should we say 1 pound and 45 pence? It's

  • alright if you say one pound and forty, one pound forty-five pence there is no problem

  • as far as the pound is concerned. However if you're talking about dollar it's going

  • to be different but let's find out what is less than a dollar? Is it still pence? It's

  • not pence. Anything that is less than a dollar is called cents. So you need to be careful

  • whether it's pence or its cents that you're hearing correctly. So anything less than a

  • dollar is cents. Now let's look at this one so it should be two dollars and 80 cents.

  • So when you're talking about dollar it's necessary that you put anandbetween the dollar

  • and the cents but when you're talking about a pound it's not necessary to put anand

  • between the pound and the pence. So pound in pence for the British currency and dollar

  • and cents for the American currency. Now another thing that I want to tell you is very interesting

  • instead of saying 50 pence you could simply go ahead and say 50 P which is a more informal

  • way of saying talking about pence anything less than a pound so you could say 50 P you'd

  • pronounce it asPEEnot the other pee but this P. The money P. Right so now let's

  • look at the next word that we have with us on the board and that isquid’. So what

  • is it quid? Quid is a way of talking about money informally. So if you're in the Britain

  • you should know the word quid which actually means money. So you could say 50 quids or

  • you know 1.45 quids which is very informally referring to dollars or cents whatever it

  • could be dollar or pence, sorry pounds or pence whatever it would be you have to guess

  • that contextually. so quid means money, informally. So you could say that I want to have a five

  • quid meal. Five quid meal means a meal that you can buy for five pounds. So possibly you'll

  • get a five quid meal maybe in a 10 pound restaurant, could be. Right so let's look at the next

  • one that we have a ‘fiveror a ‘tenner’. So in the British currency how do you refer

  • to the paper money? So a paper money is actually officially called a Note. N-o-t-e, note, right?

  • That's paper money that you have. A paper pound but if you're referring to a paper money

  • which is equivalent to five pounds you would call it a fiver or if it's ten pounds you

  • would call it a tenner. They popularly called as fiver or tenner and if you have a 20 pound

  • note then there is no informal word for that you will have to call it 20 pounds and either

  • you say 5 for fiver or 10 pounds as tenner. Andpieceandbit’. Now we've already

  • talked about paper money so we're going to talk about coins, what are the metal coins

  • called in the UK? So the metal coins are either called piece or bit. So piece is a more universal

  • word you can refer to this word either in the UK or in the US it's not specific to the

  • UK but in UK you'd specially say the word bit for coins so you could say 5 bits, for

  • coins what would you get for 55 bits? So this would mean 5.5 bits which means 5 pounds and

  • 5 pence. Right so now we have the next one which is calledbills’. Bills is the

  • paper money that you get in America that's what the Americans call paper money, they

  • call it bills. So in Britain we call paper money as note but in America we call paper

  • money as bills so five bills that means a five dollar bill would be a paper money equivalent

  • to five dollars. Now we have the last one which is a ‘dime’. This is what we call

  • a piece or a bit in the US. Now what does a piece are a bit look for yourself on the

  • board piece or a bit is coins in the UK, right? Paper money in America is bills but dime is

  • coins in the US if you're referring to the coins in US you'd call it a dime. Right so

  • please don't make the mistake of saying one point four five pounds or one point three

  • four dollars you'd say one forty five dollars or 135 pounds or in other cases you would

  • simply just say one thirty five to forty and it's understood that we are talking either

  • about dollar or about pounds. So I had a great time teaching you I hope this is very useful

  • whether you're in whichever country you will definitely come across these two currencies

  • you'll have to deal with them or if you go to the UK or the US it'll definitely help

  • you there to know their currency very well. Thank you for having me, bye-bye.

“I recently paid 5.44 pounds for a meal.” Whoopsie! There's a huge mistake in there.

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