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Dates in English ON + Dates and Days

This document provides guidance on how to write and say dates in English. It explains that: 1) Dates are written with "on" before the date (e.g. "on March 2nd, 1960") and said with "the" before the date (e.g. "the second of March, nineteen-sixty"). 2) Months, seasons, years, decades and centuries use "in" (e.g. "in January", "in 1985"). 3) The US writes the month before the date (e.g. "March 7th") while saying the date before the month (e.g. "March seventh"). The UK writes and says

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Dates in English ON + Dates and Days

This document provides guidance on how to write and say dates in English. It explains that: 1) Dates are written with "on" before the date (e.g. "on March 2nd, 1960") and said with "the" before the date (e.g. "the second of March, nineteen-sixty"). 2) Months, seasons, years, decades and centuries use "in" (e.g. "in January", "in 1985"). 3) The US writes the month before the date (e.g. "March 7th") while saying the date before the month (e.g. "March seventh"). The UK writes and says

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DATES IN ENGLISH

ON + Dates and Days

We write: He was born on 2nd March 1960

We say: He was born on the second of May nineteen-sixty

ON + Monday/ Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday/ Saturday / Sunday


IN + Months, seasons, years, decades, centuries

My birthday is in January not in June

He was born in 1985

COUNTRY WRITTEN ENGLISH SPOKEN ENGLISH

March 7 → March seventh


Month + Day Even if the –th is not
written, an ordinal number
The United States of is still said.
America December 21→
______________________
______
7th March → The seventh of March
Day + Month

U.K. 21st December → ______________________


______

ORDINAL NUMBERS
We always use ordinal numbers for the date in spoken English:

1st first 11th eleventh 21st twenty first


2nd second 12th twelfth 22nd twenty second
3rd third 13th thirteenth 23rd twenty third
4th fourth 14th fourteenth 24th twenty fourth
5th fifth 15th fifteenth 25th twenty fifth
6th sixth 16th sixteenth 26th twenty sixth
7th seventh 17th seventeenth 27th twenty seventh
8th eighth 18th eighteenth 28th twenty eighth
9th ninth 19th nineteenth 29th twenty ninth
10th tenth 20th twentieth 30th thirtieth
31st Thirty first

MONTHS: Months always start with capital letters. Remember: IN + Month

January May September


February June October
March July November
April August December

YEARS: Years are normally divided into two parts:

19 84
Nineteen eighty-four
But now let’s study these years:

1900: nineteen hundred


1902: nineteen oh two
1980: nineteen eighty
2001. two thousand and one
2010: two thousand and ten or twenty ten

Check the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw54Nu1SXcE

Exercise: Now read and write these dates: Month/ Day /year
1. 06/05/2001: ___________________________________________________________
2. 08/17/1965: ___________________________________________________________
3. 01/01/1800: ___________________________________________________________
4. 11/22/1993: ___________________________________________________________
5. 05/13/2017: ___________________________________________________________

Answer the following questions.

1. When’s your birthday? ___________________________________________________


2. When’s Thanksgiving Day? _______________________________________________
3. When’s Mother’s Day? ___________________________________________________
4. When’s Christmas? _____________________________________________________
5. When’s Halloween? _____________________________________________________

LISTENING

1. Write these dates as words.


Example: 1173 – eleven seventy-three

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2. Write these dates as words.


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