Days of the Week and Months of the Year

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Days of the Week and Months of the Year

• ESL Vocabulary
• Mrs. Coverdale

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Days of the Week

• Days of the week are written with Upper case
  letters (capital letters)
• The first day of the week is Sunday.
• The last day of the week is Saturday
• The weekdays are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
  Thursday and Friday.
• The weekend days are Saturday and Sunday.
• With the days of the week you use the preposition
  on

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What day is it?

• Look carefully at the following expressions
• Today
• Yesterday
• Tomorrow
• Next week
• Last week
• http//www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/time-months-
  of-year.htm

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• School starts on Mondays.
• During Tuesdays and Thursdays we do our AR
  reading.
• We go to the library on Fridays.
• Today I worked on a passage of Fluent Reader.

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• What day is it?
• Today is Monday.
• What day was yesterday?
• Yesterday was Sunday.
• What day will be tomorrow?
• Tomorrow will be Tuesday.

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Abbreviations

• Notice that "weekdays" and "days of the week" are
  not the same. "Days of the week" are all 7 days
  from Monday to Sunday. "Weekdays" are only the 5
  days from Monday to Friday. The "weekend" is
  Saturday and Sunday.

Day Abbreviation Abbreviation
weekdays Monday Mon. Mo.
weekdays Tuesday Tue. Tu.
weekdays Wednesday Wed. We.
weekdays Thursday Thu. Th.
weekdays Friday Fri. Fr.
weekend Saturday Sat. Sa.
weekend Sunday Sun. Su.
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Months of the Year

• There are 12 months in a year.
• The months of the year are written with Upper
  case letters (capital letters)
• All months have 30 or 31 days, except for
  February which has 28 days
• The year has 365 days except on leap years.
• Every fourth year, the month of February has 29
  days instead of 28. This year is called a "leap
  year" and the 29th of February is a "leap day". A
  leap year has 366 days instead of the normal 365

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With the months of the year you use the
proposition in

• Seventh month July
• Eighth month August
• Ninth month September
• Tenth month October
• Eleventh month November
• Twelfth month December

• First month January
• Second month February
• Third month March
• Fourth month April
• Fifth month May
• Sixth month June

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Abbreviations
Month Short Form Days Season
1 January Jan. 31 Winter
2 February Feb. 28/29 Winter
3 March Mar. 31 Spring
4 April Apr. 30 Spring
5 May May 31 Spring
6 June Jun. 30 Summer
7 July Jul. 31 Summer
8 August Aug. 31 Summer
9 September Sep. 30 Autumn
10 October Oct. 31 Autumn
11 November Nov. 30 Autumn
12 December Dec. 31 Winter
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January

• My friends and I built some snowmen in January
• This year there was not too much snow in January
• January is the first month of the year.

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February

• Valentines day is in February.
• February is the shortest month of the year.
• Valentines day is on February 14th.

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March

• Saint Patricks day is in March.
• We have to get ready for the DSTP in March.
• March is the third month of the year.

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April

• April is the fourth month of the year.
• My birthday is in April.
• My birthday is on April 29th.
• We celebrate Eastern in April.

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May

• We celebrate Mothers Day in May.
• May is the fifth month of the year.
• My brothers birthday is in May.

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June

• The school is over in June.
• Summer season starts in June
• June is the sixth month of the year.

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July

• Independence day is on July 4th.
• July is the seventh month of the year.
• My family and I will go on vacations in July.

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August

• We go back to school in August.
• August is the last month of the summer.
• August is the eighth month of the year.

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September

• September is the ninth month of the year.
• September has 30 days.
• The Fall starts in September.

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October

• We celebrate Halloween in October.
• October has 31 days.
• October is the tenth month of the year.

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November

• Thanksgiving is celebrated in November.
• November is the eleventh month of the year.
• November is the month before last of the year.

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December

• December is the last month of the year.
• Christmas is celebrated in December.
• We celebrate Christmas on December 25th.

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Review

• Days of the week and months of the year are
  written with capital letters.
• For the days of the week , use the preposition
  on
• For the months of the year, use the preposition
  in
• Be careful with dates, use preposition on
• on Monday in July on May 8th
• Remember the terms today, yesterday, tomorrow,
  first, last, before, after.
• today is yesterday was. tomorrow
  will be
• the last day of the week , the first day of
  the month,
• the day before yesterday , the day after today