Practice saying these important dates in the Russian calendar.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 466.
Days and Dates
GRAMMAR
| What day is it today? | — (It's) Monday. |
| What date is it today? | — (It's) September 25th. |
| When is your birthday? | — (It's) in March. |
| 25/09 ... — the twenty-fifth of September or September the twenty-fifth | |
| 1919 — nineteen nineteen | |
| 1800 — eighteen hundred | |
| 1805 — eighteen-oh-five |
| Days | Months | Seasons | |||
| Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday | Friday Saturday Sunday | January February March April | May June July August | September October November December | winter spring summer autumn |
a) 07/01 b) 23/02 c) 08/03 d) 01/05 e) 09/05 f) 12/06 g) 04/11
| Prepositions of Time | |||
| At | In | on | no preposition |
| 1. + time of the day at 2 o'clock at midnight at noon (= 12 o'clock in the daytime) at lunchtime 2. + weekends at the weekend at weekends 3. + public holiday at Christmas; at Easter | 1. + a part of the day in the morning in the afternoon in the evening BUT: at night 2. + longer periods (months, seasons, years, etc.) in July; in (the) summer; in 1998; in the sixties; in the 20th century | 1. + a day on Monday on Wednesday on Saturday on Christmas day 2. + a day + a part of the day on Monday morning on Saturday night on Wednesday evening | 1. before next, last, this next week last night this year 2. before today, tomorrow, yesterday, tonight |
15. Put in the correct preposition at / on / in or —.
| 1. ___ 8 July 2. ___ Wednesday 3. ___ 4 pm 4. ___ spring 5. ___ the morning | 6. ___ Friday evening 7. ___ Christmas 8. ___ night 9. ___ the weekend 10. ___ tomorrow evening |
16. Complete the following sentences with the correct preposition of time.
- My birthday is ___ January. In fact it's ___ January 15th.
- I work best ___ night.
- I start work every morning ___ 9.00 am.
- My English class is ___ Friday afternoon.
- My mother was born ___ the fifties.
- Usually I've got lots of presents ___ New Year's Day.
- Our town is quiet ___ weekends.
- The football match is ___ Sunday.
- ___ autumn it's always rainy.
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