Let’s learn about how to use days of the week and months. You also learn to say and write dates.
My birthday is on the tenth of May.
Instructions
- Complete the sentences in the flashcards.
- Complete the exercise.
- Complete text 1
- Complete text 2.
- Look at our examples.
A1 Days, dates and numbers
Days of the week
- you use on with days of the week: On Tuesday I play football. On Wednesday I go shopping.
Months
- you use in with months: My birthday is in February. I go on holiday in June.
Years
- you use in with years: I was born in 2002. I started school in 2005.
Parts of the day
- you use in with parts of the day: I like to go to the park in the evening.
Times of the day
- you use at with times of the day: I get up at 7 o’clock.
Last, this, next
- you use last for the past: Last year I went to Peru.
- you use this for now: This week I am sick.
- you use next for the future: Next month it’s my birthday.
Ordinal numbers and dates
- you use the with ordinal numbers: We live on the third floor. Monday is the first day of the week.
Saying the date
- you use the of with dates when you speak: My birthday is on the first of January.
Writing the date
- you can write the date in different ways: Thursday 20th March, Thursday, 20th March, 20th March
There are materials specifically concerned with a particular grammar structure at this elementary level of English. The main structures at this level are the Past Simple, Present Continuous and structures for the future tense.
- A1 Adverbs
- A1 Articles
- A1 Can and Can’t
- A1 Dates, days and numbers
- A1 Greetings and Introductions
- A1 Have
- A1 Indefinite article
- A1 It Sentences
- A1 Linking Words
- A1 Much and Many
- A1 Offers, suggestions, orders and instructions
- A1 Possessive ‘s and s’
- A1 Prepositions of Place
- A1 Present Simple
- A1 Pronouns
- A1 Regular Adjectives
- A1 Singular and Plural Nouns
- A1 There and Their
- A1 Wh questions
At this elementary level, there are materials concerned with basic English communication to provide confidence to understand at this basic level of English.
Here are resources at this elementary level that will give students practice in reading and writing. The reading materials are reading comprehensions but can be easily adapted for other reading practice. At this low level, the writing materials are generally guided writings.
t this elementary level, there are materials concerned with basic English vocabulary to provide confidence to speak at this basic level of English.
- A1 Animals Word Puzzle
- A1 Body and Face Word Puzzle
- A1 Clothes Word Puzzle
- A1 Colours Word Puzzle
- A1 English for Art Word Puzzle
- A1 Family and Friends Word Puzzle
- A1 Food and Drink Word Puzzle
- A1 Names Word Puzzle
- A1 Numbers Word Puzzle
- A1 Prepositions Word Search
- A1 School Word Puzzle
- A1 The Home Word Puzzle
- A1 Transport Word Puzzle
- A1 Weather Word Puzzle