LoginExpressing Dates For Intermediate learners
Do you know how to talk about dates in English? Do you like to learn them? Don't you want to make progress in your language learning process? Well then, join me.
What Are Dates?
Dates refer to specific points in time on the calendar, typically represented by the month, day, and year. They are used to indicate when an event or activity occurred, or when it is scheduled to occur.
Months
In order to learn the dates, first, it is important to learn about the twelve months of the year. Take a look at the following list:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Now, let us take a look at some examples:
6 March 2003
19 August 2010
We can also write them using numbers. Check out the following examples:
19 August 2010 → 19/08/2010
6 March 2003 → 6/03/2003
Tip!
It is useful to know that there is a difference between the way Americans and British people write dates. Compare the following examples:
5 February 2005 → 5/02/2005 (British English)
5 February 2005 → 02/05/2005 (American English)
As you can see, Americans change the places of the day and the month when writing them in numbers.
How Do We Read Dates
In order to read dates, we must use ordinal numbers. Let us have a quick review of them:
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth
Tenth
Now, let us see how we can read dates:
7/01 → It is the seventh of January
15/11 → It is the fifteenth of November
24/7 → It is the twenty-fourth of July
2/05 → It is the second of May
Tip!
Sometimes, months are written in short forms. Take a look at the following examples:
8 Sept → It is the eighth of September
14 Nov → It is the fourteenth of November
Prepositions
Usually, when we want to refer to a specific day, we use 'on'. However, when we simply want to specify the month of the event, we use 'in'. Study the following examples carefully:
Word War II began on Sept the first. / World War II began on the first of Sept.
As you can see, both forms are correct.
Mary Anne has a flight to Armenia on March the sixteenth / on the sixteenth of March.
Can you stay with us in May?
Here, the day is not important, and the sentence is indicating the month.
We saw many tragic things in August last year.
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