FOCUS 1 - unit 0: Seasons, dates, days, months, years

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

What's the date today? 

Seasons, dates, days, months, years

What season is this?

What season is this?

What season is this?

What season is this?

Br English - Am English

Autumn

Fall

Match the pictures to the correct seasons.

autumn / fall

spring

summer

winter

What's your favourite season?

1. spring
2. summer
3. autumn
4. winter

January

February

March

April

May

June

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Months

Days

days & months have CAPITAL letters in English

July

August

September

October

November

December

1

2

3

4

5

6

January

February

March

April

May

June

7

8

9

10

11

12

July

August

September

October

November

December

Saying & writing the date

SAY

The grand opening is on the 13th of June.

Or:

The grand opening is on June the 13th.

WRITE

The grand opening is on 13th June

Or:

The grand opening is on June 13th.

When is your birthday?
date + month

Which floor are we on?

When's Christmas Day?
date + month

What is today's date?

Match the numbers correctly

st

nd

rd

th

11

30

31

22

42

5

1

3

103

71

13

2

83

Write the date:
12-04-2020

Write the date:
3-12-2008

Write the date:
22-09-1987

What is today's date?

What day is it today?
not Sunday, but ...

Difficult spellings

• eight / eighth / eighty
• fifth / fifty fifth / fiftieth
• ninth / ninety ninth
• twelfth / twelve
• four /fourteenth / fortieth 
• one hundred / one hundredth 

So there are two ways of saying dates 

in British English

How do you say May 17?

• The seventeenth of May
  
• May the seventeenth

Americans say dates in a different way

In American English the month, NOT the day is usually given first and the is omitted

Example: February third       April sixth                  July twelfth

8/21/12 - August twenty-first two thousand twelve

Years

• We usually divide the numbers in years up to 1999 into two sets of two: 1980 - nineteen eighty  and 2020 is twenty twenty 
• We use oh not zero in the dates 1906 - nineteen oh six
• Years between 2001 - 2009 are read like ordinary numbers; 2009 - two thousand and nine
  
• Years from 2010 onwards can be read as numbers; 2013 - two thousand and thirteen