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Winter days
Textbook: p. 69
GoalOrdinal numbers 13th–31st; dates: “My birthday is on the ... of ...”; a text about polar bears.
New words
date · sanabirthday · tug‘ilgan kunpolar bear · qutb ayig‘imonth · oy
Explanation
Ordinals: 13th thirteenth, 14th fourteenth, ... 20th twentieth, 21st twenty-first, 22nd twenty-second, 23rd twenty-third, 24th twenty-fourth, ... 30th thirtieth, 31st thirty-first. Date: “Sardor’s birthday is on the fourteenth of November.” Question: “When is your birthday?” Guessing game: “Is it on the ninth?” — “Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t.” Polar bears live in the Arctic. They have thick white fur and they swim very well.
Worked examples
My birthday is on the twenty-third of January. My friend’s birthday is on the thirty-first of August. My mother’s birthday is on the eighth of March.
Polar bears have thick white fur and black skin. They hunt seals on the sea ice. They can swim for many hours.
Class activity
“Birthday line”: the class lines up in birthday order (January to December) and each pupil says the date.
Practice
1
Write in words: 22nd, 23rd, 30th, 31st
twenty-second, twenty-third, thirtieth, thirty-first
2
Ask: When is your birthday?
When is your birthday?
3
Say: my birthday is on 15 June.
My birthday is on the fifteenth of June.
4
Why 21 → “twenty-first” and not “twenty-oneth”?
One → first is irregular; the last number changes.