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Welcome to your Dates and Times lesson! In this topic we talk about:
• Ordinal numbers
• The days of the week
• The months of the year
• Writing and saying dates
• Asking and giving the time
• Years
Take the quizzes when you’re ready! If you’re having problems, use the comment box to contact our English Teachers.
• Ordinal numbers
• The days of the week
• The months of the year
• Writing and saying dates
• Asking and giving the time
• Years
Take the quizzes when you’re ready! If you’re having problems, use the comment box to contact our English Teachers.
Ordinal numbers
| 1st = first | 2nd = second | 3rd = third |
| 4th = fourth | 5th = fifth | 6th = sixth |
| 7th = seventh | 8 = eighth | 9th = ninth |
| 10th = tenth | 11th = eleventh | 12th = twelfth |
| 13th = thirteenth | 14th = fourteenth | 20th = twentieth |
| 21st = twenty-first | 22nd = twenty-second | 23rd = twenty-third |
| 24th = twenty-fourth | 30th = thirtieth | 40th = fortieth |
The days of the week
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
The months of the year
| January | February | March | April |
| May | June | July | August |
| September | October | November | December |
Writing and saying dates
For the question “What’s the date today?”, we repond using ordinal numbers.
- We can write the date two ways:
Wednesday July 25th ↔ Wednesday 25th July
- We say the date like this:
“It’s Wednesday the twenty-fifth of July.”
Asking and giving the time
To give the time, we say the big hand first, and depending where we find it on the clock, we say to (left side) or past (right side).
Remember that in English, we do not use the 24h clock, we use the 12h clock.
Some examples:
| 5:20 It’s twenty past five. | 11:30 It’s half past eleven. | 2:45 It’s a quarter to three. |
| 13:35 It’s twenty-five to two. | 18:00 It’s six o’clock. | 21:15 It’s a quarter past nine. |
“What time” is used to ask about the time:
“What time is it?”
“When” is used to ask about a moment:
“When is your birthday?”
Years
Orally, years in English are separated into two parts. This is true for all years except for 2000-2009:
| 1999 = nineteen ninety-nine | 1885 = eighteen eighty-five | 2010 = twenty ten |
| 2020 = twenty twenty | 1939 = nineteen thirty-nine | 1969 = nineteen sixty-nine |
but
| 2003 = two thousand and three | 2006 = two thousand and six | 2009 = two thousand and nine |
