Telling the Date

Objective: To be able to give the date.
Dialog:
    A. What day is it today?
    B. It's Wednesday, the twenty-seventh.
    A. Is it the twenty-seventh or the twenty-eighth?
    B. It's the twenty-seventh. Next Monday will be June the first, my wife's
    birthday.

Practice 1: Days of the Week
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Practice 2: Vocabulary Expansion
    TodayisMonday.
                TomorrowTuesday.
                Day after tomorrowWednesday.
                YesterdaywasSunday.
                Day before yesterdaySaturday.

Practice 3: Months of the Year
    January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September,
    October, November, December.

Practice 4: Vocabulary Expansion
    Christmasis inDecember.
                New Year'sJanuary.
                Valentine's DayFebruary.
                EasterApril.
                Memorial DayMay.
                Independence DayJuly.
                Labor DaySeptember.
                HalloweenOctober.
                ThanksgivingNovember.

Practice 5: Ordinal Numbers
11 12 13 14 15
eleventh
twelfth
thirteenth
fourteenth
fifteenth

16 17 18 19 20
sixteenth
seventeenth
eighteenth
nineteenth
twentieth

21 22 23 24
twenty-first
twenty-second
twenty-third
twenty-fourth
       

Practice 6: Vocabulary Expansion
    My birthdate is May 32, 1942. (pronounced May twenty-third)
    My wife's birthdate is November 14, 1942. (pronounced November fourteenth)
    My son's birthdate is June 12, 1970. (pronounced June twelfth)
Practice 7: Question-Answer

What'syour birthdate? My birthdate is __________.
                your wife'sHer
                your father'sHis
       

Practice 8: Filling Out Forms

 
Practice 9: Read and Fill Out Form
    Ali Helal was born in Cairo, Egypt on September 15, 1948. He is now studying
    English at The English Language Center. He lives on 3227 South Main Street
    in Odessa, Texas and he is an engineer. His social security number is
    561-59-8836 and his telephone number is 595-2631. The area code is 915. The
    zip code for Odessa is 78439.
    Fill out the form for Ali.

 
Practice 10: Substitution
    NextMonday will be (Month, date).
                Tuesday
                Saturday
                Wednesday
                Sunday
                Thursday
                Friday
       

Practice 11: Dictation
    Dictate the dialog.

Practice 12: Role Play
    A. What day is it today?
    B. It's __________, the __________.
    A. Is it the __________ or the __________?
    B. It's the __________.

Practice 13: Riddle -- Unscramble the Answer
    Some months have thirty-one days and some have thirty. How many months have
    twenty-eight days? (Answer: veltew)