What’s the date? We write: 10/5/1978 We say: ‘the tenth of May, nineteen seventy-eight’ or REMEMBER!!! 10 May 1978 ‘May the tenth, nineteen seventy-eight’ 1st - the first 2nd - the second YEARS 1963 nineteen sixty-three 3rd - the third 1900 nineteen hundred 1905 nineteen oh five 4th - the fourth 2010 two thousand and ten 5th - the fifth 21st - the twenty-first 1) Practise these dates: April 25/5/76 March 12/12/83 14 September 3/01/99 30 November 31/7/2000 23 June 15/8/2005 2) Ask and answer the questions: What’s the date today? When does the holiday end? When’s Christmas Day? When’s Valentine’s Day? When’s Mother’s Day? When’s the Independence Day? What century is it now? When were you born? When does the school year begin and finish? 10 When does the next weekend start?