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what's today's date or

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what date is it welcome back to lingonie

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english

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my name's brian in this video

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we're going to look at the date

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for example november 7th

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or march 20th

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let's take a look here are a few

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examples of dates

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february 1st 1850

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august 10th 1990

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and november 18th 2030.

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notice that you say the month first

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so august 10th

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or november 18th

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if you need to review or practice the

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months

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you can look at joanna's video right

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here

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and notice that you do not say

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august 10 you say

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august 10th

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this is an ordinal number

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let's practice the ordinal numbers

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first second

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third these numbers

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are special first

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second third

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all of the other ordinal numbers

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end in a th

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so fourth

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fourth fifth

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fifth sixth

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sixth seventh

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7th 8th

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8th 9th

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9th 10th

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10th 11th

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11th 12th

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12th and all of the teens

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end in 18th so

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13th 14th

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15th 16th 17th

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18th 19th

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these two numbers are said 20th

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and 30th and the numbers

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in the 20s are 21st

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22nd 23rd

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24th 25th

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26th 27th

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28th 29th

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and of course you have 30th and

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31st now let's practice

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saying some dates the question we

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ask when we want to know the date

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is what's today's date

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what's today's date

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so imagine that this

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is today's date

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what's today's date you can

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stop or pause the video if you need to

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to have some more time to think

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today's date is january 15th

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january 15th now

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what date is this

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this date is march 6th

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march 6th remember you

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say the month first march

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6th when you say

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when an event happens and

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it is not today you say that it happens

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on a certain date for example

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i start school on september

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4th you say on

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plus the date i start school

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on september 4th

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let's look at a calendar and you can

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tell me

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on what dates i'm doing certain things

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when is my doctor's appointment

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when is my doctor's appointment

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my doctor's appointment is on july

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2nd my doctor's appointment

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is on july 2nd

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when is the party

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when is the party

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the party is on july 20th

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the party is on july 20th

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now let's look at the year

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so years in english are

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said like two two-digit numbers

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what does that mean so with this year

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for example you would say 1850

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like the numbers 18

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and 50 you just say them

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together 1850

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pretty simple so what year

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is this

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this year is 1980.

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1980

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what year is this

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2032

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20 32 the only time

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that people normally say the word

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thousand

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is for the years 2000 to

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2009. so 2000

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2001 2002

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etc the numbers 2011

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through 2019 are often called

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2011 2012

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2013 etc but you can also

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call them with the thousands name

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so 2011 2012

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etc but for 2020

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and beyond we normally say

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just 2020 2021

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2022 etc

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so let's look at a few years what year

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is this this is 1970

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1970.

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what about this year

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this is 2005

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2005

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and this one this is 2017

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or 2017.

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so 2017 or

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2017. and lastly

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what year is this

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this year is 2024

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2024 now

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we'll show you some dates with just the

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numbers

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and you have to practice saying what

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those dates

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are so what date is this

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this is march 12th march

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12th be careful it's not december 3rd

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remember in american english we put the

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month

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first and then the day and what about

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this one

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this is february 25th

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february 25th and how about this one

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this is april 2nd april 2nd

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and there you have it dates in american

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english

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now what's your favorite date

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and why maybe it's your birthday or

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something special happened on that date

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go ahead and tell us about it in the

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comments below

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