650+ English Phrases for Everyday Speaking: Phrases for Beginner and Intermediate English Learners

Examples of the date:
May 18
th
= Say:
May eighteenth
December 25
th
- Say:
December twenty-fifth
January 1
st
, 2014= Say:
January first, two thousand fourteen
March 9
th
, 2012= Say:
March ninth, two thousand twelve
November 15
th
, 1980= Say:
November fifteenth, nineteen eighty
October 31
st
, 1954= Say:
October thirty first, nineteen fifty-four
July 19
th
, 1846= Say:
July nineteenth, eighteen forty-six.
Weekday =
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Weekend=
Saturday and Sunday
Holiday=
Special day, usually celebrating something (Independence day, Christmas, Mother’s Day,
etc.)
Birthday=
the day someone was born (February 11
th
, December 6
th
, etc.)
Questions about the Calendar:
What day is today?
What is today’s date?
What day do you ___________?
How many days do you _____ a week? (work, go to school, study, etc.)
What year were you born?
What year did you _______? (go to Brazil, move to New York, etc.)
Additional Resources:
Video: 
Questions about the calendar
Video: 
Days of the week
Video/Song: 
Months of the year
Video: 
How to pronounce Ordinal numbers

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Numbers
Knowing how to read and understand numbers are an essential part of improving your English
language skills.
Look in the resources section on learning basic numbers 0-99.
Large numbers:
100= one hundred
1,000= one thousand
10,000= ten thousand
100,000= one-hundred thousand
1,000,000= one million