Saying When -dates and expressions of time (prepositions)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

What's the date today? 

When is your birthday? 

When's Christmas day?

page 29 in student book (iPad)

In pairs, answer the questions in exercise 1

Remember: Only speak in English during the lesson 

Difficult spellings

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

There are two ways of saying dates in British English

How do you say May 17?

• The seventeenth of May
  
• May the seventeenth
  
• PRACTISE BY SAYING THE DATES IN EX. 2 (pg 29) - in pairs

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

It is normal in American English to omit the and and in dates like this. 

• We usually divide the numbers in years up to 1999 into two sets of two: 1980 - nineteen eighty  and 2020 is twenty twenty (how cool is that!)
  
• 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
  

Time Expressions

time expression rules

at                        times , at the weekend/midnight

in                         months, years, seasons, parts of the day 

on                        days, dates, on Monday morning

no prepositions       last night/ yesterday evening / this morning

TIP: LOOK AT GRAMMAR REFERENCE 3.4  ON  page 138 Study book

Finish exercises 8 and 9

 Homework: WORKBOOK ex 4. parts 1 - 2 and  3 on page 20