1E Klokkijken/Nummers/Datums HS

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

Telling time, writing dates

Goal:

You can say what time it is in English

You can write what time it is In English

You can write the date correctly

Telling Time / numbers / dates

Telling the time

numbers

Practise

The next slide is a great exercise for writing what time it is. Get ready!

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Saying the date

There's two ways to say the date. 

You could say: 

The grand opening is on June the first. 

Or:

The grand opening is on the first of June.

You either say the month first and then the day or the other way around.

It is May the twenty-second today. It is the twenty-second of May today.

British English: DAY/MONTH/YEAR. American English: MONTH/DAY/YEAR

The date in a formal letter

10 April 2004

April 10, 2004

April 10th, 2004

10th April 2004

Exercise 3

Write down the dates as words instead of numbers.

Don't forget the full stop.

Schrijf de datums op als woorden i.p.v. nummers.

Vergeet de punt niet.

(Leraar verzint ter plekke enkele data om op te schrijven.)

Resumerend

Je kunt nu tijd en datum correct uitspreken en noteren in het Engels.

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