Dates- Different or the Same?

Dates the same or different

Without looking below, listen to your teacher and raise the cards you’ve been given depending on what you think about the meanings of the dates/ times/ numbers that you hear. If you hear more than two, they are all the same or all different (i.e. there is not just one odd one out).

Label the lines below with S for the same meaning or D for different meanings.

Check your answers as a class.

Test each other on the dates by:

• Playing the same holding up cards game with the dates below
• Playing the same holding up cards game with your own ideas for dates and other numbers
• Reading out a date and seeing if your partner can say it another way without changing the meaning

 

Saying dates presentation and practice

Pronounce the dates below at least two ways. Other pronunciations not on the worksheet are also possible. The dates are all given day/ month/ year (British style). Put a question mark (?) next to any which you aren’t sure about.

1 Dec                                                                                 2/2                                                  

13/ 7                                                                                         2010

2002                                                                                         2001

2020                                                                                         2018

1/ 1                                                                                           31/12

24/12                                                                                        25/12

26/12                                                                                        14/2

14/3                                                                                          1/4

1/5                                                                                             4/7

11/11                                                                                         today

this year                                                                                   next year

the year after next                                                                  last year

the year before last                                                                yesterday

the day before yesterday                                                      tomorrow

the day after tomorrow

Check any which you weren’t sure about below.

 

Similar and different dates to classify 

• the first of December/ December the first
• the second of February/ the second of the second/ February second
• the thirteenth of July/ the thirteenth of the seventh
• the thirteenth/ the thirtieth
• two thousand and ten/ two thousand ten/ twenty ten
• two thousand two/ two thousand and two
• two thousand and one/ twenty one
• nineteen sixty/ the nineteen sixties
• the third/ the third
• See you on the eleventh/ See you on the eleventh of this month
• See you on the third/ See you on the third of next month
• See you later/ See you later today
• tomorrow/ the day after tomorrow
• next week/ this time next week
• this year/ twenty twenty four
• the year after next/ twenty twenty seven
• the year before last/ twenty two
• the last day of April/ the thirtieth of April
• the last day of August/ the thirty first of August
• the last day of December/ the thirtieth of December
• the last day of February/ the thirtieth of February
• the last day of January/ the thirteenth of January
• the last day of July/ the third of July
• the last day of June/ the thirtieth of June
• the last day of March/ the twenty ninth of March
• the last day of May/ the thirty first of March
• the last day of November/ the thirtieth of November
• the last day of October/ the thirtieth of October
• the last day of September/ the thirteenth of September
• New Year’s Eve/ the thirtieth of December
• New Year’s Day/ the first of January
• Christmas Eve/ the thirty first of December
• Xmas Day/ the twenty fifth of December
• Boxing Day/ December twenty sixth
• Valentine’s Day/ the fortieth of February
• Pi Day/ Japanese White Day/ Korean White Day/ the fourteenth of March
• April Fool’s Day/ April third
• May Day/ the first of May
• American Independence Day/ the fourth of July
• Peppero Day in Korea/ Pocky Day in Japan/ Poppy Day in the UK/ the eleventh of November

Cards for students to hold up 

The same	Different
The same	Different
The same	Different
The same	Different
The same	Different
The same	Different
The same	Different