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Calendar dates can be written in a wide variety of ways in English, and often depend on formal or informal writing, personal style .

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* To revise vocabulary words about days and months.
* To use correctly ordinal numbers we use for the date.
* To practise listening comprehension of days and dates.

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1. Select one specific topic that you, as an English teacher, would like to apply in  your EFL class.

Target:
This topic is for young learners to help them to improve their abilities to write dates correctly.

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Calendar dates can be written in a wide variety of ways in English, and often depend on formal or informal writing, personal style and whether you are writing British or American English. Whatever the format, in British English, dates are usually written in the order day - month - year , while in American English they are written month - day - year. Here are some common ways to write dates for each:

For British English, day followed by month followed by year, the 13th day of the month April, year 2014, might be written in full (in order of complexity):

13 April

13 April 2014

13th April 2014

the 13th of April 2014

the 13th of April, 2014,

These are all possible, and a matter of choice. The more complicated the style of date, the more formal it is.

In the later examples, the and of are optional, but if you do use them you must add both the and of; it would be incorrect to say only 13th of April or the 13th April.

In British English, commas are not necessary (although can be used to separate month an year, as a matter of style).

If you wish to add the name of the day, it should come before the date, and should either be separated by a comma or joined by the and of.

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Sunday the 13th of April, 2014

In American English, the month comes before the day, which means you cannot use of and rarely use ordinal numbers (adding st, nd, rd, th). Commas should also be used to separate the day and year, and again the name of the day should come at the beginning. The date should therefore be written:

April the 13th or are not incorrect, but are much less common now.

In both British and American English, the date can be written in abbreviated forms, either as a group of numbers (separated by hyphens, slashes or periods), or with the first few letters of the month. The date should be in day - month - year or month - day - year format depending on British or American use.

British Abbreviated Dates

13/04/14, 13.04.14, 13-04-14

13/04/2014, 13.04.2014, 13-04-2014

13Apr2014, 13-Apr-14

American Abbreviated Dates

04/13/14, 04.13.14, 04-13-14

04/13/2014, 04.13.2014, 04-13-2014

Apr. 13, 2014

Year before month

In some circumstances, you may find the year comes before the month, then the day (a reverse of the standard British format). This is not common in English speaking countries, except in some technical texts.

Choosing which style you write the date in depends on how formal you wish the document to be, and how much space you have. However, there are only two things that are really important, whichever style you choose:

1. Write the date in the correct format for that style

2. Be consistent

Do not use different styles within the same document, unless you have a good reason to.

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How to write dates in British and American English

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Calendar dates can be written in a wide variety of ways in English, and often depend on formal or informal writing, personal style and whether you are writing British or American English. Whatever the format, in British English, dates are usually written in the order day - month - year , while in American English they are written month - day - year.

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DATES & YEARS in British & American English

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English date - day, month, year

1st May 2013
2nd May 2013
3rd May 2013
4th May 2013
5th May 2013
6th May 2013
7th May 2013
8th May 2013
9th May 2013
10th May 2013
16th May 2013
23rd May 2013
27th May 2013
30th May 2013

the first May two thousand and thirteen
the second May two thousand and thirteen
the third May two thousand and thirteen
the forth May two thousand and thirteen
the fifth May two thousand and thirteen
the sixth May two thousand and thirteen
the seventh May two thousand and thirteen
the eighth May two thousand and thirteen
the ninth May two thousand and thirteen
the tenth may two thousand and thirteen
the sixteenth May two thousand and thirteen
the twenty-third May two thousand and thirteen
the twenty-seventh May two thousand and thirteen
the thirtieth May two thousand and thirteenx