FESTIVALS AND HOLIDAYS AROUND THE GLOBE

Festival and Holidays

around the globe

Let's play!

Take the most out of your watch!

Objetivo

Referencias

Test your Knowledge

Talking about dates

Talking about time

Years

Months

What do we have?

Objetivo

Fortalecer la competencia comunicativa que se compone "del conjunto de saberes, conocimientos, destrezas y características individuales que permiten a una persona realizar acciones significativas en un contexto determinado, usando como instrumento su dominio del lenguaje". (MEN, 2006)

Touch every clock to see the hour.

Take the most out of your watch!

Tip: Always capitalize the first letter when writing months!

Months

For years after 2000 you can also say the full number adding the word “and”. For example:

If the year ends in a number bigger than ten, we say:

This is the way you read years when they end in zero-one, zero-two, and so on:

Years

Laura: When’s the Carnaval de Blancos y Negros? Fernando: I think it’s in January. Laura: Do you remember the exact date? Fernando: Let me Google it. Here it say it starts on January the 2nd and it goes on until January the 7th.

Talking about Dates

AT

ON

IN

Talking about Time

Test your Knowledge!

It's two to ten.

It's ten past two.

It's two ten

What time is it?

It's half to one.

It's half past twelve.

It's twelve thirty.

What time is it?

Let's play!

December twelfth of nineteen eighty-six

November twentieth of nineteen eighty-six

What is it correct?

Let's play!

Four July of twenty oh seven

July fourth of two thousand and seven

What is it correct?

Let's play!

Referencias

• INVIL. (2022). E-book, Bogotá. Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia-UNAD. https://ebooks.unad.edu.co/INVIL_V5/Ingles/templates/modulo-1/?ord_id=1
• Ministerio de Educación Nacional (2006). Estándares Básicos de Competencias en Lenguas Extranjeras: Inglés. Colombia. https://www.mineducacion.gov.co/1621/articles-115174_archivo_pdf.pdf

Julio Cesar Morales - Didier Sanjuan / Instituto Virtual de Lenguas - INVIL / UNAD / Esta obra está protegida por derecho de autor bajo la titularidad de la UNAD. Cualquier reproducción o copia sin autorización constituye un delito conforme la legislación nacional.

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