In the last lesson, I talked about giving specific information about data in charts and graphs. I'm going to focus in on that today with language you may need to do that. In this lesson you'll focus on stating numbers and dates clearly and accurately, and using quantifiers such as 20%. Or a higher number of to comment on data. Last you'll compare and rank using amount and degree words. We usually think of data in terms of large numbers so let's start there. Large numbers are a thousand, a million, a billion, and a trillion at least that's the way they are in some area's of the world like the United States. In other areas of the world a billion is a bit different from this. Check the link in the resource section below for a map and list of countries that use this long scale terminology. The abbreviations for millions and billions are m & b or bn. Say point if there is a decimal in this abbreviation. Notice that we do not put an s on these words when they're giving an actual amount. However, when you're using the words in a general sense like an approximation just to mean a lot you can use an s. If you need to say a specific number here's how. 209. 1,417. 220,502. In most cases, we don't give a detail specific number. We round the number, so 1,419 becomes 1400. 10,880 becomes 11,000. When you don't use this specific amount, you can say about or around or almost to show that you're giving an approximate amount. We usually say dates as two pairs. For example in 1995. In 2016. However, for the years between 2000 and 2010 we used the word thousand. Say the phrase or number and listen for the correct response. >> 4,000 people. In 1999. 420,650. 1,295,000. $50,000. From 2009 to 2010. More than 3 billion. In 2018. In 1925. 12,000. 16.6 million. 100,000.