This document provides information about dates, celebrations, and holidays. It lists the common ways to write dates, including writing the month, date, and year. It then gives examples of famous festivals and holidays, including the dates they fall on. Some of the festivals and holidays mentioned include the Quebec Winter Carnival, Chichibu Omatsuri Night Festival in Japan, La Tomatina tomato fight in Spain, Día de los Muertos in Mexico, Brazilian Carnival, Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland, Oktoberfest in Germany, Thanksgiving and Independence Day in the USA. It also provides terms and phrases used with months, periods, seasons, days, years, and times.

1. DATES, CELEBRATIONS
AND HOLIDAYS

2. WHAT´S THE DATE TODAY? WHEN
IS...?
 May twenty-ninth, two thousand ten
 May 29th, 2010
 First: month
 Second: date in ORDINAL numbers
 Third: Year
 Ordinal: 1st = first/ 2nd= second/ 3rd= third/
4th= fourth/ 5th = fifth/ 6th = sixth...

3. FAMOUS FESTIVALS
 Quebec Winter Carnival, Quebec City
 Last Friday of January or First Friday of
February

4. JAPANESE
 Chichibu Omatsuri Night Festival
 On December 1st – 3rd

5. LA TOMATINA TOMATO FIGHT IN
BUNYOL
 In the Summer in Spain

6. DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS – MEXICO
 On November 2nd

7. BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL
 In February

8. SAINT PATRICK´S DAY - IRELAND
 On March 17th

9. OKTOBER FEST - GERMANY
17 days from September
until October

10. THANKSGIVING AND
INDEPENDENCE DAY – THE USA
On the fourth Thursday of
November
- On July fourth

11. MONTHS, PERIODS, SEASONS - IN
 January July
 February August
 March September
 April October
 May November
 June December
 Spring, summer, autumn (fall), winter
 The Morning, the afternoon, the evening

12. DATES/ DAYS - ON
 On Monday/ On Tuesday
 On November 28th
 On July 10th (pizza and Kika´s day)
 On Christmas
 On the weekend
 On week days

13. YEARS - IN
 In two thousand and 10
 In two thousand and 12
 In nineteen/ seventy two (19/72) = 1972
 In 1984
 In 1875

14. TIME - AT
 At four o´clock
 At nine o´clock
 At noon
 At midnight
 At lunchtime
 At night