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🔤 English from Zero (ESL) · Lesson 3 of 8

Colors and numbers

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Ten colors and numbers 1–20.

Colors

red🔴
blue🔵
yellow🟡
green🟢
orange🟠
purple🟣
black⚫
white⚪
brown🟤
pink🩷

Color before the thing

In English the color comes before the word: a red car, a blue sky, green apples. The color word does not change: one red car, two red cars.

Numbers 1–20

1–5one, two, three, four, five
6–10six, seven, eight, nine, ten
11–15eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen
16–20sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty

Thirteen or thirty?

13–19 end in -teen and the stress is at the end: thir-TEEN. 30, 40, 50 end in -ty and the stress is at the start: THIR-ty. Listen carefully when someone says a price!

Tip

💡 Count everything: stairs, apples, cars on the street. Say the numbers out loud in English.

✏️ Practice: your turn

  1. Name the color of 10 things around you
  2. Say 5 sentences: “I see a red car”
  3. Count from 1 to 20 and back
  4. Practice: thirteen – thirty, fourteen – forty

✏️ Short stories in easy English to read next

🧠 Quick quiz

Answer all 4 questions correctly to mark this lesson as done.

1. Which is correct English?
2. What comes after twelve?
3. How do you write 15?
4. Mix yellow and blue and you get…

0 of 4 correct

All lessons in English from Zero (ESL)

  1. 🔠 1. Letters and soundsThe name of a letter vs. the sound it makes
  2. 🐶 2. First wordsAnimals, family and things at home
  3. 🎨 3. Colors and numbersTen colors and numbers 1–20
  4. 👋 4. Hello! How are you?Introduce yourself and answer simple questions
  5. ❤️ 5. I like, I have, I canThree sentence patterns for talking about yourself
  6. 📖 6. First readingThree-letter words and sight words
  7. 🏠 7. Everyday EnglishMorning, food and play: English at home and around town
  8. 🚀 8. What’s nextA plan to keep learning, by age