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    This document provides information on how to express height, weight, and age in English. It discusses the metric and imperial measurement systems for height and weight. For height, it gives equivalents between meters and centimeters, feet and inches. For weight, it provides equivalents between kilograms and grams, pounds and ounces. The document outlines common phrases for asking and answering questions about height, weight, and age, and provides examples of responses using numbers, units, and age descriptors like "years old."

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    This document provides information on how to express height, weight, and age in English. It discusses the metric and imperial measurement systems for height and weight. For height, it gives equivalents between meters and centimeters, feet and inches. For weight, it provides equivalents between kilograms and grams, pounds and ounces. The document outlines common phrases for asking and answering questions about height, weight, and age, and provides examples of responses using numbers, units, and age descriptors like "years old."

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    How to express height, weight,

    and age in English

    How to express height

    Vocabulary
    High adj ‫ﻋﺎل‬
    Tall adj ‫طوﯾل‬
    Height n ‫اﻟطول‬
    The metric system ‫ﻧظﺎم ﻣﺗري‬
    The imperial system ‫ﻧظﺎم إﻣﺑراطوري‬

    System of units
    There are two system of units to measure height.
    According to the metric system, we use the meter and the
    centimeter to measure height.
    According to the imperial system, we use the foot and the
    inch to measure height.
    1 meter (m) = 100 cen meters (cm)
    1 foot (ft) = 12 inches (in)
    1 meter (m) = 3.28 feet (ft)
    1 foot (ft) = 30.48 centimeters (cm)
    1 inch (in) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)
    1 cen meter (cm) = 0.39 inches (in)
    1 = 0.30 m
    1 m = 39.37 in

    Note
    How many meters is 5 feet?
    How many inches are in a meter?
    How to ask and answer

    What height + be + sb/sth less common


    What + be + the height of sth/sb's height common
    How tall + be + sb/sth more common
    How high + be + sth

    According to the metric system

    What is your height?


    my height is 183 cm.
    or : my height is 1.83 m.
    note
    183 cm = a/one hundred and eighty-three centimeters.
    1.83 m = one point eight three meters.
    What tall are you?
    I'm 183 cm tall.
    I'm 1.83 m tall.
    Or : I'm a/one hundred (and) eighty-three centimeters tall.
    Note
    I'm a/one hundred sixty-nine centimeters tall.
    I'm a/one meter and sixty-nine centimeters tall.
    I'm a meter sixty-nine.
    I'm 169 cm tall.
    I'm 1.69 m tall.

    According to the imperial system

    How tall are you?


    I'm six feet.
    Or : I'm 6'0".
    She is 5 feet,3 inches tall.
    She is 5 feet, 1 inch.
    Note
    He is 5 , 2in tall.
    He is 5 , 2in.
    He is 5 feet 2.
    Or : He is 5 foot 2.
    He is 5'2".

    Also
    She is 1.70 meters in height
    Tom's height is 6 2in.

    Note
    We have "tall" and "high".
    They are adjectives.
    These words are confusing.
    What is the difference between the words "tall" and
    "high"?
    We usually use "high" for things that are wider than
    their vertical height. For example, high mountains, or
    high wall.
    And we use "tall" for things that are narrower than their
    vertical height, like people and trees. For example, Burj
    Khalifa is the tallest building in the world.
    Examples
    The wall is 5 feet high.
    The ceiling is 4 high.
    How high is the Everest?
    How tall is this tree?
    How tall is that girl?
    How to express weight

    vocabulary
    weigh (v) ‫ﯾزن‬
    weight (n) ‫وزن‬
    weighty/heavy (adj) ‫ﺛﻘﯾل‬

    system of units
    we have two system of units, the metric
    system and the imperial system.
    The metric system uses the kilograms and
    the grams to measure weight, and the
    imperial system uses pounds and ounces to
    measure weight.
    1 kilograms (kg) = 1000 grams (g)
    1 pound (lb) = 16 ounces (oz)

    1 kilograms (kg) = 2.2 pounds (lbs)


    1 pound (lb) = 0.45 kilograms (kg)
    1 kilograms (kg) = 35.27 ounces (oz)
    1 ounce (oz) = 28.35 grams (g)
    1 grams (g) = 0.035 ounces (oz)

    Note
    Ounce = oz
    Ounce = fl oz

    Note
    1 pound = 1 lb
    2 pounds = 2 lbs
    1 ounce = 1 oz
    2 ounce = 2 oz
    How to ask and answer

    There are many ways to ask


    What weight + be + sth
    What + do/does + sth + weigh
    What + be + the weight of sth
    How weighty/heavy + be + sth
    How much + do/does + sth + weigh
    b
    but we only use
    What + be + the weight of sth/your weight/
    sb's weight
    How heavy + be + sth
    How much + do/does + sth + weigh

    Examples
    What is your weight?
    My weight is seventy-five kilograms.
    Or : my weight is 75 kg.

    How much do you weigh?


    I weigh 75 kg.
    How much does Eman weigh?
    She weighs 64 kg.
    She weighs 143.3 lbs.

    Examples
    My mother weighs 100 kg.
    Or : my mother weighs 220.46 lbs.
    His weight is 100 lbs.
    Sentences
    I'm fat.
    I weigh 100 kg.
    Or : I weigh a/one hundred kilograms.
    This is unhealthy.
    I need to lose 40 kg.
    How to express age in English

    How to ask and answer


    There are many ways of asking someone's
    age in English.
    What age + be + sb? Less common
    Such as, what age is she?
    What + be + sb's age common
    Such as, what is her age?
    How old + be + sb? More common

    Such as, how old is she?

    There are many ways of answering


    someone's age in English

    Sb + be + number
    Such as, she is fifteen.
    I am 20.
    X= day(s), week(s), month(s), year (s)
    Sb + be + (number) + (x) + (old)
    He is one year old.
    This baby is two weeks old.
    She is 1 month old.

    Old = of age
    Sb + be + (number) + (x) + (of age)
    Such as, I am 30 years of age.

    Y= day, week, month, year


    The form " (number-y-old)" can be an
    adjective or a noun.
    Adjective = (number-y-old)
    Noun = a/an (number-y-old)
    Adjective + noun = a/an (number-y-old) + boy/girl
    She is 2-month-old.
    She is five-year-old.
    She is a three-year-old.
    He is an eleven-year-old.
    She has a 4-year-old son.
    I am a 31-year-old guy.
    Sandy is a five-year-old girl.
    My 7-year-old cousin speaks 4 languages.
    The 15-year-old boy won the race.
    Or : the boy who won the race is 15 years old.
    3-year-olds are often a handful.
    Or: kids who are 3 years old are o en a handful.

    Sb + aged + number
    Or : sb, aged + number
    She has two children, aged eleven and nine.
    They have one daughter, Isabel ,aged 3.

    Sb of number = noun
    She is a young woman of nineteen.
    They have a girl of 3 and a boy of 5.

    D = at, by, before, over, under


    Sb + very + D + number/ the age (of) number
    "it refers to a particular event"
    She got married at 16.
    She got married at the age (of) 16.
    She emigrated to Australia with her family at 13.
    You can't get married in that country under the age of 18.
    It's illegal to sell alcohol to children under the age of 18.

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