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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.3 - Special days for the textbook New Total English Elementary - Students' Book with authors Mark Foley and Diane Hall from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Find the names of three months in the text in exercise 1b.
  2. Number the months in the correct order (1-12).
  3. Work in pairs. Say the dates.

Answer

a)

  • March
  • May
  • July

b)

  1. January
  2. February
  3. March
  4. April
  5. May
  6. June
  7. July
  8. August
  9. September
  10. October
  11. November
  12. December

c)

The conventions for writing dates in figures are different in British and American English. In British English, the day of the month goes first and the month second; in American English, it is the reverse. This means that Christmas Day in 2011 would be written in figures as 12/25/2011 in North America and as 25/12/2011 in other parts of the English-speaking world.