F) Continue the series.

a) There are many different ways of writing dates.

b)²Listen to two different ways of saying these dates.

Model:20.09.1985 ü September the twentieth, nineteen eighty five ü The twentieth of September, nineteen eighty five

c) Read the dates below following the model above.

a)²There are two ways of saying dates. Listen and check. Write the dates in words.

b)²Look at the same dates in written American English. What’s the difference? Listen and check.

c)²Practice saying these dates. Listen and check.

	1) 1 April	4) 19 November	7) 19/12/1983
2) 2 March	5) 23 June	8) 3/10/1999
3) 17 September	6) 29/2/1976	9) 31/5/2000 10) 15/7/2007

d)²Practice these dates. They are in British English. Listen and check. Find six dates that are in American English.

1) 4 June 2) 5 August 3) 31 July 4) 1 March

5) 3 February 6) 21/1/1988 7) 2/12/1996 8) 5/4/1980

9) 11/6/1965 10) 18/10/2000 11) 31/1/2005

²Listen and repeat the dates. Are they in British or American English?

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²—Listen and fill in the gaps in the dialogues. Practice saying them. Work in pairs and make similar dialogues.

Dialogue 1

Woman:	What’s the _____ today?
Man:	It’s the _____ of _____. It’s _____, _____.
Dialogue 2
Man:	What’s the _____ today?
Woman:	It’s the _____ of _____.
Man:	Is it? I thought it was the _____!
Dialogue 3
Woman:	When is your _____?
Man:	On the _____ of _____.

Match the dates.