Fechas en ingles

1. How to write and say the dates in English?
Asking the date:
1. What date is it today? It is…
2. What is the date today? or What is today’s date?
The date today is… or Today is…
We always use ORDINAL NUMBERS to say the DATES:
1st – the first 9th– the ninth
2nd – the second 12th – the twelfth
3rd – the third 20th – the twentieth
5th –the fifth 21st – the twenty-first
8th – the eighth 30th – the thirtieth

2. We say and write the dates differently in British and American English
BRITISH ENGLISH AMERICAN ENGLISH
DAY + MONTH +YEAR
We write:
14th
Septem ber 1971
We say:
The fourteenth of September
nineteen seventy-one
MONTH + DAY +YEAR
We write:
Septem ber 14th
, 1971
We say:
September the fourteenth
nineteen seventy-one

3. MONTHS always start with a CAPITAL letter:
January With months of the year we always use
February preposition IN.
March Eg. Christmas is in December.
April School starts in September.
May This year we celebrated Easter in April.
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

4. YEARS are usually divided in two parts:
We write: We say:
1900 nineteen hundred
1905 nineteen O five/ nineteen hundred and five
1917 nineteen seventeen
1998 nineteen ninety-eight
2000 two thousand
When a year ends in a number between 01 and 09, then that last
part is pronounced as the name of letter O + number.

5. For the years 2001 to 2010, we do not divide years in two
parts. We usually say: two thousand and + number
For the years after 2010, we have two versions again.
We write: We say:
2001 two thousand and one
2006 two thousand and six
2010 two thousand and ten
We write: We say:
2011 two thousand and eleven/ twenty eleven
2015 two thousand and fifteen/ twenty fifteen
2019 two thousand and nineteen/ twenty nineteen

6. From the year 2020, again we divide years in two parts.
We write: We say:
2020 twenty twenty
2028 twenty twenty-eight
2031 twenty thirty-one
With years we use preposition IN.
Eg. When were you born? I was born in 2011.
With dates we use preposition ON.
Eg. When were you born? I was born on 17th October 2011.