Dates

Now that we’ve focused on the order of things and how we use those numbers in sequence we can now talk about dates and dates are actually written many different ways.

But the standard format for America OK.

So I’m an American teacher I can teach you the standard format in the US.

You’ll often see on an internet forum you’ll see m m d d y y y y like that.

So month day year you’re at the full year and only the for the month.

You write two numbers and for the day you write two numbers like that in that order.

So what would this be if we were going to write it before we say it let’s write it.

Well m m would be 0 7 0 7.

D D would be 15 and Y Y Y would be two thousand seventeen.

Can we say 2017.

Yes.

So four years if it’s well we’ll talk about these years but if it’s in this century the century we’re in we say for example this one we say two thousand seventeen two thousand.

We also say twenty seventeen.

2017.

2017.

Now that’s usually only four teens back when it was for example this most people would say two thousand five instead of 20 0 5.

You could say 20 0 5.

But most people will say 2005 2001 2009.

You don’t have to put end in there either.

You don’t have to.

OK.

And we’ll talk about then this as well and this so that it’s comfortable to say years even if it’s a long time ago.

Now this one would be August August.

This is the abbreviation for August a Yuji.

If we want to write it out and then even though we don’t have the R D here usually when we say it will imagine there is an R D here so we’ll say August 3rd 1773 1773.

So it’s like saying 2017 1773.

We would not say one thousand seven hundred seventy three.

No we would not say usually.

Seventeen hundred seventy three.

Usually not.

Yeah.

Could you could but usually not.

We can say it here.

If it’s an even one.

But otherwise we don’t.

So for example this one would be DC which is the abbreviation of December December.

This one we imagine a little s t here because there’s a one December thirty first and then for this we say we say let me make a little space down here we say nineteen hundred nineteen hundred eighteen hundred seventeen hundred sixteen hundred.

If it’s this though 1 9 0 2 then we would say 19 0 2 19 0 2 we would use 0 0 2 19 0 2 19 0 3 1913.

OK so December 30 first nineteen hundred.

August 3rd 1773 July 15th 2017 and again if we were going to write this how would we write it in America we would write m m twelve D D thirty one y y y y nineteen hundred and 1 9 0 0.

That’s how we’d write it but because it’s long ago in history it will probably be written this way it probably will be written like that if you read it in a book it’s probably written like this because it’s something that happened a long time ago.

We usually write today’s date on a Doctors form or something like that we’ll write that in this format or if we’re filling out a filling out a form filling out a form or an application perhaps an application online then we’ll use this format usually and not every country is the same.

And sometimes you will see it written in other ways you might see sometimes you might actually see the R D there you may you may sometimes you’ll see three August 1773 sometimes with no comma that’s there sometimes not in America usually you’ll see d d m m y y y.

Different countries are different and there are a lot of different ways to do it but I’m trying to give you a feeling for how it’s typically typically done.

For example let’s say the date is let’s say it’s 10 20 2 1 9 9 3.

OK so how would we say that I want you to say that to yourself right now if you said Tobar twenty second nineteen ninety three.

You are correct.

October 10 twenty second.

Add a little end either.

Nineteen ninety three.

You’re right.

Now sometimes dates don’t quite fit into the very simple category of one day.

But there’s actually a a range a range of dates.

Now how would we say that if we have a if we have a range of dates that means it begins here and and could be all the way over here or anything in between.

Well what do you mean by that.

Well I’ll give you an example of an American holiday called Thanksgiving.

It’s a harvest celebration.

We’re celebrating our thankfulness to our family members that we have them around and our friends.

We eat a lot of food.

It’s it’s anyway it’s an American celebration.

It’s the fourth Thursday in November.

That’s when it’s held.

So that’s not always on the same day is it.

Sometimes that might be the twenty sixth sometimes the 25th.

So how can we say that.

Well we could say Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday in November.

The abbreviation of November is by the way.

And O V.

And the fourth Thursday in November and usually falls falls.

Yes.

It’s like it sort of landed there and usually falls between the twenty sixth and twenty eighth of the month usually falls between the twenty sixth and the twenty eighth of the month.

What month.

November November.

Because I already said November I shouldn’t say November twice.

I can just say the month.

So that’s how you would say different years.

That’s how you say the months and the days on those years and how you often see them written and that is how you describe a range when a certain date might be within a certain period of time.

So I hope that’s clear.

Now let’s move on and talk about symbols.

We’re going to talk about symbols next.