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Engineering 25
How do you say
Before you start
1 What do these abbreviations stand for? Match the abbreviations in the box with the full forms (1-9) below.
cm ■ kg ■ I ■ ml ■ g ■ (x)2 ■ (x)3 ■ km ■ m
1
centimetre /'sentimiits/
2 gram/graem/
3 kilogram /'kilsgrsem/
4 kilometre /'kibmiits/
5 litre/'li:ts/ i
6 metre /'miita/
7 millilitre /'milili:t3/
2 Are the words the same in your language? Why is
it useful to have standard international systems?
3 How do you pronounce the words in your
language? Look at the pronunciation of the
words in English and say them.