Days and Dates

Learn about days and dates(requires Real Player).

The days of the week:-

The working week
The weekend
Listen to EnglishMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
(the Sabbath)		Listen to English
Write EnglishMonTueWedThuFriSatSun 

 

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The months of the year:-

Listen to EnglishJanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJune
Write EnglishJanFebMarAprMayJun
Listen to EnglishJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
Write EnglishJulAugSepOctNovDec

Dates:-

In figuresIn wordsListen to EnglishPronounce It
1stthe first1st
2ndthe second2nd
3rdthe third3rd
4ththe fourth4th
5ththe fifth5th
6ththe sixth6th
7ththe seventh7th
8ththe eighth8th
9ththe ninth9th
10ththe tenth10th
11ththe eleventh11th
12ththe twelfth12th
13ththe thirteenth13th
14ththe fourteenth14th
15ththe fifteenth15th
16ththe sixteenth16th
17ththe seventeenth17th
18ththe eighteenth18th
19ththe nineteenth19th
20ththe twentieth20th
21stthe twenty-first...
22ndthe twenty-second...
23rdthe twenty-third...
24ththe twenty-fourth...
25ththe twenty-fifth...
26ththe twenty-sixth...
27ththe twenty-seventh...
28ththe twenty-eighth...
29ththe twenty-ninth...
30ththe thirtieth30th
31stthe thirty-first...
 

Expressing the year

Write EnglishHow we write the year2008190019592000
Listen to EnglishHow we say
the year
Two thousand and eightNineteen hundredNineteen fifty-nineThe year 2000

 

Expressing the date

Write EnglishHow we write the date1st January 200407/09/1959August 12 2003
Listen to EnglishHow we say
the date
The first of January 2004The seventh of September 1959August the 12th 2003

 

Prepositions

For single days and dates we use on.
For example:
I was born on the 7th of the month.
For months we use in.
For example:
I was born in September.
! My birthday is on September the 7th.

Naturally speaking

How to ask the day or date
  • It's Tuesday.
  • It's the 1st of April.
  • It's the 1st of April.

Interesting Stuff

AD stands for Anno Domini (Latin for "In the year of (Our) Lord"), abbreviated as AD. It defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth. it is used in the English language to denote years after the start of this time.
BC stands for Before Christ (from the Ancient Greek "Christos" or "Anointed One", referring to Jesus), abbreviated as BC, it is used in the English language to denote years before the start of this time.
Some non-Christians also use the abbreviations AD and BC without intending to acknowledge the Christian connotation, but some people prefer the alternatives 'CE' (Common Era) and 'BCE' (Before Common Era), arguing that they are more neutral terms. .
A millennium (pl. millennia) is a period of one thousand years.
A century is a period of one hundred consecutive years. Centuries are numbered ordinally (e.g. "the nineteenth century").
A decade is a period of 10 years.
The decades from 1920 to 1999, are called "the Twenties", "the Sixties", etc. But the current decade has no universally accepted name. Some refer to the decade as the "twenty hundreds" while others may refer to it as the "two thousands". In written form, this could appear as "the '00s" or "the 2000s". But writing "the 2000s" or simply saying "the two-thousands" can cause confusion, since this could refer to the entire 21st century or even the entire millennium. Some people tried to popularize "the Noughties" as the decade's name. This is a play on words, nought means "zero" and noughties sounds both like nineties and naughty.
You'll find some more interesting facts about days and dates in the Interesting Facts Blog.
!Note - When writing the date as numbers British and American English differ. To write the date 7th of September 2007 a Brit would write dd/mm/yy (07/09/07) and an American would write mm/dd/yy (09/07/07). This often causes great confusion. It's better to write the date in full (7th September 2007 or September 7th 2007). It also looks nicer.

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