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Miles vs. Kilometers

Date: Nov 11 2004

Intro

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Good job everyone! You made it to Friday. You’ve really gone the distance this time!
Today we are going to listen as Steph and Sara get all confused about the difference between miles and kilometers.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Steph

Sara

Steph: Ya know, Canada and America are a lot alike. I went there though. One of the big differences is that they use kilometers.

Sara: Really? I don’t really know anything about kilometers. Like how many kilometers are in a mile?

Steph: You know, I know that there are more kilometers in a mile than there are miles in a kilometer.

Sara: Really?

Steph: Um, I think it’s 1.6.

Sara: One point six kilometers equals one mile?

Steph: I think so. Yeah. It’s very confusing though. Especially when your car is in miles per hour.

Sara: Mmmhmm.

Steph: And you’re looking at signs that say kilometers to a certain destination. The math is just terrible.

Sara: Well then, is the speed different, too? Like if your car says miles per hour and you’re going 30? Are you still going 30 kilometers?

Steph: Right. Exactly. I mean, if you drive your car in from America, then you have to do all this math. But, um, when I went to Germany, I got in my rental car and I was doing all this conversion. And I was like, oh, ya know.

Sara: Yeah.

Steph: Fifty kilometers, ya know, to Frankfurt. And then I was dividing by miles and all this stuff.

Sara: Wow.

Steph: It was stupid though because the car was in kilometers.

Sara: Oh. Whoops.

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Discussion

Have you ever found yourself in a similar situation? The conversion between miles and kilometers can be pretty confusing! Another confusing conversion is between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Next week is all about temperature, so you might want to look it up.
Have a great weekend!

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azert3

Algeria

that's a very good when we do and make a smile

lunny

Nigeria

i think it superb

lunny

Nigeria

am from nigeria.and i think it useful to me b-cos we make use of kilometers

jbmorite

Philippines

Try to name out some big countries around the world as well as the small one. Compare the unit they use.

zombameto

Egypt

very nice and simple conversation

nabiha joe

Djibouti

I'm from Djibouti , but i live in Yemen . In this country we use kilometers . and thanks for this useful information .

jbmorite

Philippines

In Math we learned that 1kilometer is equal to 1000 meters and 1 mile is equal to 1.6 kilometers. As its application, obviously we can use km in short distances and miles in long distances.

waeilm

Egypt

am happy so much for nice nice conversaition

Christine Green

China

It's good for me!

I like it

Sofire

China

In China,we also use kilometers.So when you come to Beijing to see the OlympicGames just don't foget it.wellcome to China.

m_haque

Bangladesh

this is very importent topic but it has to more discus, like this – when you will convert miles to kilometers or kilometers to miles then you can use mentioned below formula -

1.( miles * 1.6 = kilometers ) example, 50 miles * 1.6 = 80 kilometers

2. (kilometers * 0.625 = miles ) example, 50 kilometers * 0.625 = 31.25 miles