PREPOSITIONS
OF TIME
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on
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in
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at
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-days of the week
On Monday
On Tuesday evening
On Sunday afternoon
-dates
On 23rd September
On Christmas Day
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-part of the day
In the morning
In the afternoon
In the evening
-years
In 1968
-months
In June
-seasons
In summer
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at night
at the weekend
-times
At 7 o’clock
At lunch(time)
At dinner
At Easter
At Christmas
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Saying dates
Today is (the) 21st (of) January 2019.
Today is January (the) 21st , 2019.
The
ordinal numbers
The first 1st
The second 2nd
The third 3rd
The fourth 4th
The fifth 5th
The twentieth 20th
The twenty-first 21st
Saying the Years
2019 – twenty nineteen
2000 – two thousand
2001 – two thousand and one
2009 – two thousand and nine
2010 – twenty ten / two thousand and ten
1978 – nineteen seventy-eight
1905 – nineteen “oh” five
1900 - nineteen hundred
978 – nine hundred seventy-eight / nine seventy-eight
Spring - 21st March to
20th June
Summer – 21st June to 21st September
Autumn/Fall - 22nd September to 20th
December
Winter – 21st December to 20th March
Adverbs
of frequency
Always 100%
Usually 70 normally
/ generally
Often 50
Sometimes 30
Occasionally 20
Hardly ever / rarely 10
Never 0
I don’t always get up early.
I am always on time.
Expressions of time in the present...at the end of the sentence
Most nights
Every day / week
Once a week
Twice a week
Three times a year
Four times a month
How long does IT TAKE YOU to get
to school?
IT TAKES ME 10 minutes by bus.
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