- Vocabulary:
- Months of the year: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December.
- Festivals include Christmas, Halloween, New Year’s Day, birthdays, and more.
- Ordinal numbers: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, twentieth, and twenty-first.
- Grammar: Adding the suffix ‘-st, -nd, -rd, -th’ to cardinal numbers creates ordinal numbers, such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Ordinal numbers are used to indicate position or rank in a sequential order. When discussing dates, we frequently use ordinal numerals to indicate a number’s relative position to other numbers. For example, there are 31 days in December, and Christmas falls on the 25th.
This lesson emphasizes the importance of utilizing capital letters for month names and festival titles.
Ordinal versus Cardinal Numbers
- My birthday is on May 5th. (Ordinal numbers)
- I have 5 balloons for my birthday. (Cardinal numerals)
- Christmas falls on December 25th. (Ordinal numbers)
- There are 25 chocolates in the advent calendar. (Cardinal numerals)
- This is my 3rd time visiting the zoo. (Ordinal numbers)
- I saw 3 elephants at the zoo. (Cardinal numerals)
- She finished in 1st place in the race. (Ordinal numbers)
- There were 10 runners in the race. (Cardinal numerals)
- We live on the 7th floor of our building. (Ordinal numbers)
- Our building has 7 floors in total. (Cardinal numerals)
Capital letters at the beginning of months and festivals.
- Diwali falls on November 12th. NOT Diwali is on November 12th.
- Easter falls on March 31st this year. NOT Easter is on March 31st this year.
- Independence Day falls on July 4th. NOT Independence Day is on July 4th.
- New Year’s Eve falls on December 31st. NOT New Year’s Eve is on December 31st.
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