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The -teen and -ty number pairs differ mainly by stress: thirTEEN takes stress on the second syllable, THIRty on the first. The -teen ending also has a longer, fuller vowel. Mishearing these causes real problems with prices and times, so drill the contrast.

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The words

thirteen
thirty
fourteen
forty
fifteen
fifty
sixteen
sixty
seventeen
seventy
eighteen
eighty
nineteen
ninety
hundred

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