1) Answer the following questions:
1. What’s the date today? ……………………………………………..
2. What day of the week is it? ……………………………………………..
2) Ask and answer your partner. Use the above questions and answers.
Ordinal numbers
2) Look at the calendar below and answer the following questions.
1. What is the date today? Today is ……………………………………………………………….
2. What is the date for the 12th? ……………………………………………………………….
3. What is the date for the 1st? ……………………………………………………………….
4. What is the date for the 16th? ……………………………………………………………….
March 2023 | ||||||
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
27th twenty-seventh | 28th twenty-eighth | 1st first | 2nd second | 3rd third | 4th fourth | 5th fifth |
6th sixth | 7th seventh | 8th eighth | 9th ninth | 10th tenth | 11th eleventh | 12th twelfth |
13th thirteenth | 14th fourteenth | 15th fifteenth | 16th sixteenth | 17th seventeenth | 18th eighteenth | 19th nineteenth |
20th twentieth | 21st twenty-first | 22nd twenty-second | 23rd twenty-third | 24th twenty-fourth | 25th twenty-fifth | 26th twenty-sixth |
27th twenty-seventh | 28th twenty-eighth | 29th twenty-ninth | 30th thirtieth | 31st thirty-first | 1st first | 2nd second |
3) Study the calendar above then complete the sentences.
1. The ordinal number of 4 is ……………………………………………….
2. The ordinal number of 20 is ……………………………………………….
3. The ordinal number of 5 is ……………………………………………….
4. The ordinal number of 31 is ……………………………………………….
5. The ordinal number of 1 is ……………………………………………….
Months of the year
4) Complete the sentences. Use the months of the year below and the cardinal numbers in exercise 2. The first one has been done for you.
September – January – July – November – April – December – March – May – August – June – October - February |
1. January is the first month of the year.
2. ____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
3.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
4. ____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
5.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
6.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
7.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
8.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
9.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
10.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
11.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
12.____________ is the ___________ month of the year.
5) Use ordinal numbers to complete the sentences.
1. Sunday is the __seventh or 7th____day of the week.
2. My birthday is on the __________ day of the month.
3. My next birthday will be my ____________ birthday.
4. Monday is the ____________ day of the week.
5. June is the _____th month of the year.
6. Today is the ____________________ day of the month.
7. The International Workers’ Day, is celebrated on the ______of May each year.
6) Listen and repeat, then ask and answer your partner.
Alex: What date is your birthday?
Sara: My birthday is on the 10th of May.
Partner: ……………………………………………………..?
You:…………………………………………………………………..
7) Write a sentence. Use an ordinal number.
Example: My wife’s birthday is on the 23rd of march.
8) Copy the following in your lesson notebooks.
Ordinal numbers | ||
1st - first 2nd - second 3rd - third 4th - fourth 5th - fifth 6th - sixth 7th - seventh 8th - eighth 9th - ninth 10th - tenth | 11th – eleventh 12th – twelfth 13th - thirteenth 14th - fourteenth 15th - fifteenth 16th - sixteenth 17th - seventeenth 18th – eighteenth 19th – nineteenth 20th - twentieth | 21st - twenty-first 22nd - twenty-second 23rd - twenty-third 24th - twenty fourth 25th twenty fifth 26th - twenty sixth 27th - twenty seventh 28th - twenty eighth 29th - twenty ninth 30th - thirtieth 31st - thirty first |
Days of the week | Months of the year |
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Alex: What’s the date is it today?
Jim: It’s November the first?
Alex: What day of the week is it?
Jim: It’s Wednesday.
Alex: What date is your birthday?
Sara: My birthday is on the 10th of May. What’s yours?
Alex: It’s on the 4th of June.
