Having a picture mnemonic for all English numbers
To help you remember French numbers you need to recall an image for each of the following:
zero, 1 to 16, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100 and 1000
You can then use association and link to each of the French pronunciations.
Practise these numbers:
| 0 | = | Ice (ice melts at zero degrees Celsius) |
| 1 | = | Won |
| 2 | = | Two by two onto Noah's Ark |
| 3 | = | Three little pigs |
| 4 | = | Four-leaf clover |
| 5 | = | High five |
| 6 | = | Six-sided dice |
| 7 | = | Seven deadly sins |
| 8 | = | Eight legs of a spider |
| 9 | = | Cat with nine lives |
| 10 | = | Ten-pin bowling |
| 11 | = | Eleven players in a football team (American or English) |
| 12 | = | Dozen |
| 13 | = | Unlucky thirteen |
| 14 | = | Fourteenth of February, Valentine's day |
| 15 | = | 15-Love (tennis score) |
| 16 | = | Sweet sixteen (sweets) |
| 20 | = | Twenty-twenty vision |
| 30 | = | Thirty pieces of silver |
| 40 | = | It rained for forty days and forty nights |
| 50 | = | Fifty States of America |
| 60 | = | Sixty seconds in a minute |
| 100 | = | Water boils at 100°C |
| 1000 | = | A 1 kilogram weight |
