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Days of The Week

This document provides information about expressing and writing dates, days, months, years, and seasons in English. It discusses how to write dates using numbers or words, with the day written before or after the month depending on whether it is written in numbers or words. The document also covers using ordinals like "first" versus numerals like "1st" in dates, and using prepositions like "on", "in", and "at" correctly depending on whether referring to a specific date, month, year, or time. Examples are given for writing out dates fully in words or using slashes between numbers.

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101 views5 pages

Days of The Week

This document provides information about expressing and writing dates, days, months, years, and seasons in English. It discusses how to write dates using numbers or words, with the day written before or after the month depending on whether it is written in numbers or words. The document also covers using ordinals like "first" versus numerals like "1st" in dates, and using prepositions like "on", "in", and "at" correctly depending on whether referring to a specific date, month, year, or time. Examples are given for writing out dates fully in words or using slashes between numbers.

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DAYS OF THE WEEK, MONTHS AND SEASONS

Days of the week

Months

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday

Seasons

January

Spring

February

Summer

March

Autumn

April

Winter

May

Friday

June

Saturday

July

Sunday

August
September
October
November
December

Day
Yesterday

Week

Weekend

Next/ last week

Month

Year

Tomorrow

Today

The day before yesterday

The day after tomorrow

The date
What day is today? Its Friday.
What is the date today? Today is Friday, 20th January, 2012. Today is 19th August.

Los meses y los das se escriben con mayscula


En ingls se utilizan los nmeros ordinales (first, second, third, etc.) para expresar las
fechas

Expressing the year


How we write the
year

2008

1900

1959

How we say
the year

Two thousand and


eight

Nineteen hundred

Nineteen fifty-nine

Expressing the date

How we write the date

1st January 2004

07/09/1959

How we say
the date

The first of January 2004

The seventh of September


1959

Prepositions of time

at for a PRECISE TIME: at 3 o'clock, at the moment

in for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS: in May, in


summer, in 1990

on for DAYS and DATES (dates: con referencia a un acontecimiento, reunin,


fechas sealadas) on Sunday, on Christmas, on 31st of Decembre.
_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

1. Fill the gaps with on, in or at.


I am going to a party _______ the 12th of October
I was born ____ March
The grand opening is ___ 1st June
The meeting is _____31st December.
I will see you ___ 5 oclock

2. Write the dates


19th October 2012 = ___________________________________________________
4th August 1972 = _____________________________________________________

1. Write the dates


19th October 2012 = The nineteenth of October Two thousand and twelve
4th August 1972 = The 4th of August nineteen seventy two

Para expresar los das utilizamos la preposicin 'on'. En cambio, para expresar
meses o aos se utiliza la preposicin 'in'.

Con referencia a un acontecimiento (la reunin, la fecha que nos


veremos etc.) se emplea la palabra ON si hay un da en
la fecha:
You came on the 12th of May / viniste el 12 de mayo
You came in May / viniste en mayo
You came in 1995 / viniste en 1995

The meeting is on 31st (of December):


His birthday is the 14th [fourteenth] of October.

En ingls, a diferencia del espaol, los meses y los das se escriben con
mayscula

I was born in 1999. (Use in with the year.)

I was born in August. (Use in with the month.)

I was born on 12th May, 2000. (Use on in the complete date.

in + month or year- In March, In 2003


on + date (with the year or without it) or day of the
week- On April 2, On March 3, 1999, On Saturday
at + clock time, midnight, noon- At 3:30 p.m., At 4:01, At
noon

Britnico: 12th of October 1492 twelfth of


October, fourteen-ninety-two.
Britnico: Friday, 6th of January 1989 Friday sixth
of January, nineteen-eighty-nine.
Britnico: Tuesday 30th of March, 2004 Tuesday
Thirtieth of March, two thousand and four.
Yesterday was 12th of August, 1998

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