雅思听力必备基础知识 #3 英国货币

British money has a pound ( £ ) and a pence (p ), 1 pound =100 pence.

£ is written before the number, but it’s said after it:

  • £ 1 —a pound/one pound
  • £ 20—twenty pounds
  • £ 100—a hundred pounds/one hundred pounds

p (pence ) is written after the number, and said after it :

  • 50p—fifty pence
  • 76p—seventy-six pence

£ and p together can be said in different ways:

£ 10.50 —

  1. ten pounds fifty pence
  2. ten pounds fifty
  3.  ten fifty

£ 21.99 —

  1. twenty-one pounds ninety-nine pence
  2. twenty-one pounds ninety-nine
  3. twenty-one ninety-nine

 

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