spelling:

• • if you are asked to write the name of a street, person, company etc., it will be spelt for you
  • you should be very familiar with the names of the letters of the alphabet to aid you in spelling what you hear

numbers:

• • you may have to write down a year, phone number, part of an address etc.
  • remember that ‘O’ can be pronounced ‘oh’ or ‘zero’ when saying a phone number
  • when talking about money, we typically say amounts in the same way as in the examples below:

£4.50 = four pound(s) fifty / four fifty
$31.85 = thirty-one dollar(s) and eighty-five cents / thirty-one eighty-five

• • most years are pronounced in the same way as in the examples below:

1985 = nineteen eighty-five
2015 = twenty fifteen
(we put the first two numbers together and then the second two)
except for the years 2000 – 2009, example:
2000 = two thousand
2009 = two thousand and nine or two thousand nine
(we say the year as we would a number)

• • you can write dates in different ways and still get full marks:

3rd March, March 3rd, March 3 and 3 March are all considered the same two-word answer

• • for measurements, you can write either the whole thing or an abbreviation, for example:

25m = 25 metres = 25 meters