1. • Asking and Telling
about Time
• Ordinal Numbers
• Asking and Telling
about Time
Related to Days,
Dates, Months,
and Years
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2. Asking and Telling about Time
Listen and repeat.
Practice the dialogs with your friends.
Dialog 1
Randy : Excuse me, Mom. What time is it?
Mrs. Nugraha : It is a quarter to three. What’s up?
Randy : The course will start earlier today, Mom. So, I have to
prepare now.
Mrs. Nugraha : O.K.
Dialog 2
The coach: What time is it, Kinar?
Kinar : It is five o’clock.
The coach: I think the basketball practice is enough for today. See you
tomorrow.
Kinar : See you.
3. Answer the following questions based on the previous
dialogs.
1. What are the dialogs about?
2. Who are the speakers in each dialog?
3. When does each dialog happen?
4. Where does each dialog take place?
5. What expressions are used to ask about time?
6. What expressions are used to tell about time?
4. The following are expressions of asking and telling about time.
Asking about Time Telling about Time
• What time is it?/What is the
time?
• What time do you usually go to
school?
• When do you do your
homework?
• What time does Arka have
dinner?
• It is 1 p.m.
• I usually go to school at
6 o’clock.
• At 4 o’clock.
• He has dinner at half past six.
5. Ordinal Numbers
The words ‘first’, ‘second’, and ‘third’ are ordinal numbers.
The following are several ordinal numbers.
1st : first 2nd : second 3rd : third
4th : fourth 5th : fifth 6th : sixth
7th : seventh 8th : eighth 9th : ninth
Read the following sentences and pay attention to the words in bold.
1. Mr. And Mrs. Nugraha have two children. (a cardinal number)
Randy is their second child. (an ordinal number)
2. The students have to answer ten questions. (a cardinal number)
The tenth question is the most difficult one. (an ordinal number)
An ordinal number is a number that tells the position of an item or a
person in a list. Meanwhile, the word ‘twelve’ is a cardinal number.
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6. Asking and Telling about Time Related
to Days, Dates, Months, and Years
Dialog 1
Kinar : What month is it?
Randy : It is September.
Kinar : Wow … it is Cindy’s birthday.
Randy : Yes. Her birthday is on September 30.
Dialog 2
Aldo : What date is today?
Delia : It is October 6.
Aldo : Today is the opening of a computer fair. Let’s go there.
Delia : O.K.
Dialog 3
Mr. Yoko : When are you going to Bromo?
Mrs. Nadia : On Saturday, November 20.
Mr. Yoko : Have a nice trip!
Mrs. Nadia : Thanks.
Listen and repeat.
7. Answer the following questions based on the previous
dialogs.
1. What is each dialog about?
2. What expression is used to ask about months?
3. What expression is used to ask about dates?
4. What expression is used to tell about months?
5. What expressions are used to tell about dates?
8. The following are expressions of asking and telling
about time related to days, dates, months, and years
Asking about Time Related to
Days, Dates, Months, and Years
Responding
• What is the date today?
• When were you born?
• When did you move here?
• What month will you go abroad?
• When will you send your e-friend
an e-mail?
• It is October 20, 2019.
• I was born on May 26.
• In 2015.
• In February.
• Next Sunday.
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9. Stating Dates, Months, and Years
There are two different ways of stating dates:
1. We put the date before the month (British English).
Examples:
– Tari will celebrate her birthday on 9 November or 9th
November. (written)
– Tari will celebrate her birthday on the ninth of November.
(spoken)
2. We put the month before the date (American English).
Examples:
– Wisnu was born on January 19. (written)
– Wisnu was born on January nineteenth. (spoken)
We use preposition ‘on’ to state dates. Meanwhile, we use
preposition ‘in’ to state months and years.
Examples:
1. I was born on January 19.
2. Mr. Nugraha will go to Singapore in December.
3. Arka and his family moved here in 2010.
10. Complete the dialogs based on the
pictures.
Ayu : When is the grand opening
of the 3D museum?
Ilyas : _______________
Diana : When will you have
a drama performance?
Randy : __________________
It is on October 1. It is on November 12.
11. Work in pairs.
Write short dialogs using the following words.
See the example.
Do the activities in your PR Bahasa Inggris on pages 66–70.
1. have a robotic class – Wednesday
2. visit grandparents – Sunday
3. attend a natural lovers’ club – Thursday
4. attend a Japanese course – Saturday
5. clean the bedroom – every day
Example:
do gardening – Sunday
Randy : When do you usually do gardening?
Wisnu : On Sundays./Every Sunday.
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