English A1: Foundations

Numbers 0-20

English numbers are regular except for a cluster of irregular forms between eleven and fifteen. Those are the ones worth memorising deliberately.

Vocabulary

zero
0
one
1
two
2
three
3
four
4
five
5
six
6
seven
7
eight
8
nine
9
ten
10
fifteen
15
twenty
20

Example Phrases

  • How old are you?

    Asking someone's age

  • I'm twenty years old.

    Giving your age

  • How much is it?

    Asking a price

  • That's ten pounds.

    Giving a price

Grammar note

"I am" for age, not "I have"

English uses be for age: I'm twenty, she's thirty. Speakers of French, Spanish, and Italian often say I have twenty years, which is a very recognisable error.

You can drop years old in casual speech — I'm twenty is complete on its own.

Cultural note

Thirteen or thirty?

The -teen and -ty pairs (thirteen/thirty, fourteen/forty) are a genuine listening difficulty. The difference is stress: THIRteen puts weight on the second syllable, THIRty on the first.

Asking someone to confirm — one-three or three-zero? — is completely normal, including among native speakers.