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
I will have a party next Sunday.
It’s on the tenth of April.
I was born in April.
It’s on the twenty – first of April.
I was born in nineteen seventy – three.
They will get marry next year.
There are too many students this year.
We were teachers last year.
NOTE
1. To tell a day, we put “on” in front of day in order to tell a day. For example
My birthday is on Sunday.
We work on Monday.
I was born on the tenth of May.
She came here on the first of December.
2. In order to tell months, we always put “in” in front a month. For example
I was born in June.
I was born in nineteen seventy – one.
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