Months & Festivals Words & Sentences

Topic: Months, Festivals Words & Sentences ESL Lesson
Vocabulary: months of the year- January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Festivals - Christmas, Halloween, New Year's Day, birthday. Ordinal Numbers - First, second, third, fourth, fifth, twentieth, twenty-first.
Grammar: We add the suffix '-st, -nd, -rd, -th' to cardinal numbers to write ordinal numbers - example 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th. Ordinal number are used to show the position or rank in a sequential order. When talking about dates, we often use ordinal numbers to show position of a number relative to other numbers. For example there 31 days in December and Christmas in on the 25th day of December.

This lesson also focuses on another point which is using capital letters at the beginning of the months of the year and names of festivals.

Ordinal vs. Cardinal Numbers

Capital Letters at Start of Months & Festivals