Days/Months/Ordinal Numbers

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 1

Goal of the lesson:

To know the days of the week / 

months in a year/ ordinal numbers in the correct order and spelling. 

Rule over days/months:

Always with a capital letter!

(Altijd met een hoofdletter!)

Rules over ordinal numbers:

* Difference formal/informal writing. 

1st=informal

first=formal 

Single digit numbers:

Look at these and notice the last two letters of the words

1st = first

2nd = second

3rd = third

4th = fourth

5th =fifth

Last two letters of the words= make up the ordinal number 

first - last two letters are 'st' so put after 1 = 1st

second - last two letters are 'nd' put after 2 = 2nd

third - last two letters are 'rd' so put after 3 = 3rd

4th - last two letters are 'th' so put after 4 = 4th

Teen numbers:

14th = fourteenth (fourteen + th)

15th = fifteenth (It's her fifteenth birthday.)

16th = sixteenth

17th = seventeenth

18th = eighteenth

19th = nineteenth.

Long numbers:

'th' is added to the last number:

106th = one hundred and sixth

242nd = two hundred and forty-secondth

2018th = two thousand and eighteenth

Spelling rules:

4th - We have four, fourteen, forty(drop the u), fourth (don't drop the 'u')

5th - We have five, but then the 'v' become 'f' in fifteen, fifty, fifth ( the 'f' helps pronunciation)

9th - We have nine, nineteen, ninety, but ninth (drop the 'e')

12th - twelve, twelfth (Notice the 'v' becomes 'f')

Numbers from 21 upwards:

We need a hyphen when we write cardinal numbers from 21 upwards. There's no space between the letters and hyphen:

twenty-one

twenty-two

thirty-three

sixty-seven

one hundred and twenty-nine

Using a hyphen also applies to ordinal numbers from 21st.

twenty-first = 21st (It's her 21st on Sunday.)

twenty-second

twenty-third = 23rd

thirty-second = 32nd

thirty-third = 33rd

forty-third = 43rd

forty-fourth = 44th

fifty-third = 53rd

fifty-fifth = 55th

Exercises: 

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Evaluation:

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