Speaking about dates

Question: What is the day of the month? (What is the date today?)

Answer: Today is the 1st (2nd, 3rd, 4th...) of May.

Question: When were you born?

Answer: I was born on the 2nd of December, 1987 (De­cember 2, 1987).

Or: I was born in December. I was born in 1987.

Question: What day of the week is it? What day is it today?

Answer: It's Monday. (Today is Monday).

Exercise 11. Learn other ways of expressing dates:

this morning — сьогодні вранці

yesterday morning — вчора вранці

tomorrow morning — завтра вранці

on Monday morning (afternoon ...) — в понеділок вранці (вдень ...)

on the morning of the 4th (of May) — вранці четвертого (травня)

tonight (this evening) — сьогодні ввечері

last night — вчора ввечері

tomorrow night — завтра ввечері

the night before last — позавчора ввечері

last Friday night —минулої пятниці ввечері

the day before yesterday — позавчора

the day after tomorrow — післязавтра

the other day —днями, декілька днів тому назад

one of these days —днями, в найближчі дні

every other day — через день

within the next few days — в найближчі декілька днів

on weekdays — у будні дні

this week —на цьому тижні

last week (month, year) — минулого тижня (минулого місяця, минулого року)

next week —наступного тижня

next Friday week — наступної п’ятниці

in (early) spring, summer ... — на початку весни, літа...

in 1900 — in (the year) nineteen hundred

in 1870 — in eighteen hundred and seventy

in 1905 — in nineteen [ou] five (in nineteen hundred and five)

in 1917 — in nineteen seventeen

in the fifties — в п’ятдесяті роки

in the early (late) fifties — на початку (в кінці) п’ятдесятих років

Exercise 12. Read and translate the dialogues. Dramatize the dialogues in class:

A: Excuse me, what’s the time?

B: It’s six o’ clock.

A: Thank you very much.

B: Not at all.

Exercise 13. Read and learn:

The clock

Analogue	Digital	Normal use		Timetables, TV, etc.
	6:00	It's 6 o'clock.
	6:05	It's 5 past 6.	past and the previous hour (here: 6)	It's six oh five.
	6:15	It's quarter past 6.		It's six fifteen.
	6:30	It's half past 6.		It's six thirty.
	6:35	It's 25 to 7.	to and the following hour (here: 7)	It's six thirty-five.
	6:45	It's quarter to seven.		It's six forty-five.
	6:55	It's 5 to 7.		It's six fifty-five.
	7:00	It's 7o'clock.

Tips: 1) In English there is no 24-hour-system (sometimes it is used on TV and in timetables). 15.00 is 3 o'clock (p.m.) (on TV: fifteenhundred). That's why you use a.m. (Latin: ante meridiem) and p.m. (post meridiem) in situations where it's necessary to point out that you want to say "in the morning" or "in the evening". In other situations (or when it's clear that school starts in the morning and the party in the evening) it's left out.

Example:

Germany	England
0:00	midnight
0:01	12:01 a.m.
8:00		8:00 a.m.
12:00	noon
12:01	12:01 p.m.
14:00	2 p.m.
18:00	6 p.m.
23:59	11:59 p.m.

2) o'clock (abbreviation: "of the clock") only on the hour 3) quarter = 15 minutes; half = 30 minutes 4) multiplies of 5: leave out the word "minutes" (but: 6.01 - It's one minute past six.