Topic 2 : Vocabulary related to days/months/year 

1. Days of the week

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2. Months of the year

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3. Year

To verbalize year is simply divided numbers into two parts and read them separately.

 

1672 sixteen seventy – two

1782 seventeen eighty – two

1983 nineteen eighty – three

1990 nineteen ninety

2008 two thousand and eight

1995 nineteen ninety five

 

In order to convert year of B.E. to B.C., we simply takes 543 out of B.C. year 

2536 BE. 2536 – 543 = 1993 BC.

4. Writing the full form of day/month/year.

1. English Style : the sequence is day-month-year

1 November 1998

or 1 / 11 / 98 or 1 – 11 – 98

To read 1 November 1998  = The first of November , nineteen ninety - eight.

 

2. American English Style : the sequence month-day-year

November 1, 1998  =  November (the) first, nineteen ninety – eight. 

or 11 / 1 / 98

or 11 - 1 - 98


Example

 

NOTE

1. To tell a day, we put “on” in front of day in order to tell a day. For example 

2. In order to tell months, we always put “in” in front a month. For example

3. The use of word “date” in English is to tell the precise day or month or year.

4. Day and month always begin with capital letter ie; Monday, Friday, December, June