PEMBELAJARAN V : MENYEBUTKAN HARGA BARANG BAIK BARANG YANG BISA DIHITUNG MAUPUN TIDAK DPAT DIHITUNG YANG BISA DIHITUNG

Dalam mata uang Inggris dikenal : pound, pence (a hundred, a pence).
How much is it? - it's twenty pence   - it's a pound   - it's one pound twenty (pence). Pence biasanya tidak disebutkan.
Orang Amerika bisa memakai kata dollar dan cent.It's fifteen dollars fifty.
a baunch of flowers, beberapa kuntum sekaligus (seikat).

Dengarkanlah angka-angka yang telah kita latih ucapannya dalam bahasa Inggris (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ........ etc.).
W : How much is this book?
P : It's 16 (sixteen) pound
Sue (W) : Excuse me
Mark (P) : Yes
Sue (W( : How much is that record?
Mark (P) : It's five pound thirty pence
1 pound = 100 pence
- Excuse me, how much is this book?
- Excuse me, how much is this vase?  (vase : jambangan bunga)
- Excuse me, how much is this watch? (watch : jam tangan)
- Excuse me, how much is this camera?
A : Excuse me, how much is this watch?
B : This one?
A : Yes
B : It's forteen pound seventy
A : and how much is this one?
B : It's eighteen pound ninety
A : I'll take this one, please.
P : This book, please?
W : It's eight pound fifty
P : and that book?
W : It's seven pound thirty.
P : Here you are
W : Thank you

Bandingkan dalam ucapan bahasa Inggris antara :
15 dengan 50
16 dengan 50
17 dengan 70
18 dengan 80
19 dengan 90
Jika barang yang akan dibeli tempatnya jauh, kita katakan : I'll take that one, please.

Seorang pembeli membeli bermacam-macam barang dengan masing-masing berharga murah. Mula-nula ia menyebut satu per satu harga barang-batang tersebut, kemudian baru total harga semua barang.
W : thirty, seventy
P : that's one pound seventy
P : Here yoa are.
W : Thankyou.


Seorang pembeli laki-laki di toko bunga sangat kikir.
Penjual  : Good morning!
Pembeli : Good morning! I want some flowers, please!
Penjual  : Right, which one?
Pembeli : How much eee... the red one?
Penjual  : There're two pounds eghty for five.
Pembeli : It's very expensive
Penjual  : Well, perhaps the yellow one? There are two pounds a baunch.
Pembeli : No, no. I'll have ...
Penjual  : Yes!
Pembeli : I'll have one of the red ones
Penjual  : Oh, sir, forty pence, please. There're two pounds eighty for five. There're three pounds for 
               ten.
               There're four pounds for six.

Harga bunga per ikat untuk bunga-bunga berwarna kuning.
A baunch costs two pounds. the flowers are two pounds.
A box of chocolate.
How much of a box of chocolate? There're five pounds sixty.
How much are the cigarretes?  (cigarretes = rokok, packet = -paket)  There're one pounds sixty a packet.
How much is the milk? It's forty pence a bottle. It tak bisa dihitung. They're two pounds a baunch. Yang tidak bisa dihitung, biasanya dijual dalam bentuk potongan, a piece = sepotong.
It's one pound forty a piece. It's two pounds a piece.

Berikut percakapan antara 2 (dua) orang pria, A dan B :
A : Can I help you?
B : Yes, I need some petrol.
A : Right, it's 48 pence a litter
B : Yes, how much is that a gallon?
A : Two pounds twenty.
B : It's very expensive, I'll have ..........., I'll have two (litters).
A : Two litters?
B : Yes

Ukuran biaya Petrol adalah A litter
A gallon = 4 litters.
A : Can I help you?
B : Yes
Ukuran berat a kilo, di Inggris dengan menggunakan a pound . 
Fifty pence a pound
The bananas are sixty pence a pound.
The tomatoes are forty pence a pound.
Tge apples are 55 (fifty five) pence a pound.
The bananas are 60 (sixty) pence a pound.




Sumber Informasi : BBC English, Step By Step, by : Sri Owen, Sue, and Mark.