Times & Dates

TIMES & DATES

6. Dates

5. Ordinal numbers

4. Telling the time

3. Seasons

2. Months

1. Days of the week

Index

Ex. See you on Monday!

we use them with the preposition ON

Remember this

MondayTuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Days of the week

JulyAugustSeptember October November December

Ex. I was born in November

we use them with the preposition IN

Remember this

JanuaryFebruary March April May June

Months

Ex. We are in Autumn

we use them with the preposition IN

Remember this

Spring Summer Autumn Winter

Seasons

Common ways for asking the time: What time is it? What is the time? Do you have the time? Do you know what time it is? More polite ways to ask the time: Can you tell me what time it is, please? Could you tell me the time, please?

Asking the time

We use PAST for 01 minute to 30 minutes and TO for 31 to 59 minutes It's + minutes past / to It's three minutes past five It's three minutes to sixIt's + full hours (o' clock / : 00) It's five o' clock It's + half hours (half past / : 30) It's half past five It's + quarter hours (: 15 / : 45) It's (a) quarter past five It's (a) quarter to six

Telling the time

We don’t normally use the 24-hour clock in English. We use a.m. for the morning and p.m. for the afternoon and night. 5 a.m. Five o’clock in the morning. 5 p.m. Five o’clock in the afternoon.

• We form ordinal numbers by adding -th to cardinal numbers:

four - fourth; twenty-four - twenty-fourth

• first (1st), second (2nd), third (3rd) are irregular forms/suffixes
• Five, eight, nine, twelve and numbers ending in -y have irregular spellings fifth, eighth, ninth, twelfth, twentieth
• We usually use the definite article the with ordinal numbers:

EX: on the third day / It was the first time I've ever been to France

Ordinal numbers

We say dates with the and of: the eighth of April - April the eighth But we don't write them like that. We write them as: 8 April - 8th April - April 8th We write dates in the order day + month + year: 24 October 2024 we say it as the twenty-fourth of October (of) twenty twenty-four

Dates

• If you want to ask what day of the week it is, you say:

What’s the day today? or What’s the day tomorrow?

• To answer these questions you can say:

It’s Monday today or Today is Monday. It’s Tuesday tomorrow or Tomorrow is Tuesday.

Dates

• If you want to ask what the date is, you say:

What’s the date today? or What’s today's date? What's the date tomorrow? or What's tomorrow's date?

• To answer these questions you can say:

It’s 24th October or Today is 24th October. Tomorrow is October 25th.

Dates

• Until the year 2000, every year is pronounced as two numbers 1485 – fourteen eighty-five

1800 – eighteen hundred 1801 – eighteen oh one

• From 2000 to 2010, we use the word ‘thousand’:

2000 – two thousand 2006 – two thousand and six

• From the year 2010 onwards, you can say two numbers again or you can continue to use ‘thousand’:

2012 – twenty twelve or two thousand and twelve

Dates - How to say the year