Expressing Dates For beginners

Learning how to say the dates correctly helps you improve in the English language. Here, we'll tell you all about it.

Expressing Dates in English

How Do We Express Dates?

Expressing dates involves writing the month, day, and year to refer to a specific day on the calendar.

How to Ask About Dates?

To ask about the date, the following questions can be used. The answers to these questions start with “It is…”.

Example

- What day is it? + It is December 24th.

- What month is it? + It is August.

- What year is it? + It’s 2023.

Names of the Days

A week has 7 days. The following list gives the names of weekdays:

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Names of Months

A year has 12 months. Each month has 4 weeks and 29 to 31 days. Take a look at the list below:

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

How to Write the Dates

Now, to read the date, start with the first number which is the day. Then, move on to the month, and then the year.

In order to read the date, use ordinal numbers. Look at the list below to learn some of them:

1 → First

2 → Second

3 → Third

4 → Fourth

5 → Fifth

Example

5/9/2025 → the fifth of November

1/3/1998 → the first of March

3/12/2007 → the third of December

Prepositions

When talking about dates, different prepositions are used. 'In' is used when talking about the year and the month, and 'on' is used when talking about the day. Look:

Example

I'm going to Italy in June.

I may visit her on Sunday.

They were in France in 1998.

Warning!

Note that the names of days and months are proper nouns and their first letter is always in uppercase.

Quiz:


1.

What is the correct way to answer the question: "What day is it?"

A

It is Monday.

B

It is January.

C

It is 2023.

D

It is 5 o'clock.

2.

Sort the days of the week in the correct order.

thursday
friday
sunday
tuesday
monday
wednesday
saturday
3.

Fill in the blanks to complete the sentence according to order of the months.

The month after March is

.

The month before July is

.

The first month of the year is

.

The month after October is

.

The last month of the year is

.

January
April
December
November
August
September
June
4.

Sort the words to form a correct sentence.

on
2000
was
.
15th
born
the
of
march
i
5.

Which sentence uses the correct preposition for expressing dates?

A

She was born in April 10th.

B

The event will be on March 15th.

C

We met in Friday.

D

They left on 2020.

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