Telling the Date
Level: Elementary Objective: To be able to give the date. Dialogue:
- A. What day is it today?
- B. It's Wednesday, the twenty-seventh.
- A. Is it the twenty-seventh or the twenty-eighth?
- B. It's the twenty-seventh. Next Monday will be June the first, my wife's birthday.
Practice 1: Days of the Week
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Practice 2: Vocabulary Expansion
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Today |
is |
Monday. |
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Tomorrow |
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Tuesday. |
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Day after tomorrow |
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Wednesday. |
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Yesterday |
was |
Sunday. |
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Day before yesterday |
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Saturday. |
Practice 3: Months of the Year
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Practice 4: Vocabulary Expansion
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Christmas |
is in |
December. |
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New Year's |
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January. |
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Valentine's Day |
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February. |
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Easter |
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April. |
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Memorial Day |
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May. |
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Independence Day |
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July. |
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Labor Day |
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September. |
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Halloween |
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October. |
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Thanksgiving |
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November. |
Practice 5: Ordinal Numbers
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11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
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eleventh |
twelfth |
thirteenth |
fourteenth |
fifteenth |
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16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
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sixteenth |
seventeenth |
eighteenth |
nineteenth |
twentieth |
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21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
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twenty-first |
twenty-second |
twenty-third |
twenty-fourth |
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Practice 6: Vocabulary Expansion
- My birthdate is May 23, 1942. (pronounced May twenty-third)
- My wife's birthdate is November 14, 1942. (pronounced November fourteenth)
- My son's birthdate is June 12, 1970. (pronounced June twelfth)
Practice 7: Question-Answer
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What's |
your birthdate? |
My birthdate is __________. |
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your wife's |
Her |
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your father's |
His |
Practice 8: Substitution
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Next |
Monday will be (Month, date). |
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Tuesday |
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Saturday |
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Wednesday |
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Sunday |
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Thursday |
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Friday |
Practice 9: Role Play
- A. What day is it today?
- B. It's __________, the __________.
- A. Is it the __________ or the __________?
- B. It's the __________.
Practice 10: Riddle -- Unscramble the Answer
- Some months have thirty-one days and some have thirty. How many months have twenty-eight days?