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Copyright

It is allowed only with the written permission of the author to copy the presentation method of this manual in order to teach or write a textbook manuscript, namely: to put foreign / Russian words in brackets or on the corresponding Russian / foreign equivalents, marking the sentence with special symbols as it is shown in this book; reprint, reproduce by electronic means or in any other way the entire book or any part of it.

Annotation

This tutorial is intended for preschoolers and school children, it consists of two parts. The first part of the book is a story about the mysterious castle of Magic Numbers, on reading it the children will be able to understand the rules of word formation in relation to the cardinal numbers in English.

In the second part there are 7 exercises to translate from Russian into English on the subject of the tutorial, whose purpose is to teach to count from 0 to 1 000 000 and more. The most commonly used ordinal numbers are given at the end of the book.

All exercises are adapted according to the © Linguistic Reanimator method. There are keys for 2 exercises. The book has many thematic illustrations.

From the author

This tutorial is designed for self-learning with children. But you may contact me at any time if additional advice or classes are needed. Consultations / classes are possible in person and on Skype.

My contact information

Skype: oliva-morales

E-mail: oliva-morales@mail.ru

Greetings,

Tatiana Oliva Morales

About the series of manuals © Linguistic Reanimator

The tutorial series © Linguistic Reanimator can be recommended to schoolchildren, students, as well as to a wide variety of people studying English at school, university, courses, with a tutor or independently.

All exercises and tests for translation from English into Spanish are adapted through the use of foreign words (clues) on the technique of © Linguistic Reanimator. All exercises and tests have the keys. In these manuals, I tried to discover the main difficulties encountered in the English language, the difficulties for which students of this language make the most common mistakes.

The tutorials contain detailed and accessible explanations on each of the topics with and a large number of exercises adapted to translate from English into Spanish to reinforce the acquired knowledge.

Special designations

Dos (two) — the Spanish word / its English equivalent.

hotel [otel] hotel — the Spanish word / its latin transcription (the stressed vowel is highlighted) / its English equivalent.

The secret rule of Numbers transformation

Once, when Max and I were traveling around the country of Spanish Tenses, we settled at one of the central hotels of the city called Presente De Indicativo.

The atmosphere there was very pleasant and homely, at nine o’clock in the morning the owners of this hotel brought the purely English breakfast to our room.

And once, during one of those breakfasts, a familiar fairy flew into our place, greeted us and asked, tasting delicious Spanish hot chocolate and cake:

— Well, how do you like our local sights? How many of them have you managed to see?

— OK, — Max replied enthusiastically, — we have already visited the mysterious Palace of Negative Sentences, and now we know its secret. We have been on the island of the Princess of Interrogative Sentences.

«We’ve even managed to attend the reception of the Prince of the Question to the Subject,» I added proudly.

— Well, it’s not everything! — the fairy De Indefinido said mysteriously. — It looks like you haven’t been to the Magic Numbers castle and you don’t know its secret…

— In fact, we have not been there yet, miss, but of course we will correct this error. Thanks for the advice!

— Not at all, I’m always happy to help lovely and adorable travelers! — said the fairy and evaporated.

The next day Max and I set off, we needed to visit this mysterious castle.

— I wonder what could be so magical in the ordinary numbers. — Max said thoughtfully and counted in Spanish from one to twelve (then he didn’t know how to count more): — Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce…

And at this very moment an unknown fairy flew towards us and noticed in a severe voice, looking closely at Max:

— You have no right, sir, to say such terrible and illegal things in the territory of the Castle of Magic Numbers!»

— Really, what illegal or terrible thing have I said? — he answered surprised.

— You, sir, had the imprudence to pronounce the forbidden word «ordinary». But at the entrance of this territory there is a gold plaque, in which it’s clearly written with blackened gold over non-blackened gold «Castle of Magic Numbers»!

— Sorry, madam, — Max replied confused, — from now on I will be more careful in choosing the expressions.

— That’s great! — nodded the fairy with approval.