9. Sınıfİngilizce

National Days and Celebrations — Çalışma Sayfası

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Names a national day, says which country it belongs to and gives its date with ordinal numbers.
Uses on the 29th of October, in October and every year correctly with dates.
Explains the difference between celebrate and commemorate in a simple context.
Describes how people celebrate, with parades, flags, fireworks, concerts and family meals.
Reads a short text about a celebration and finds the date, the place and the activities.
Spots and corrects mistakes with ordinals, subject and verb agreement and prepositions of time.

A national day belongs to the whole country, it is written in the official calendar, and it is a public holiday for everybody.
To celebrate means to have an active and happy time, and to commemorate means to remember an event quietly and seriously.
The day of the month is ordinal and it takes the preposition on, while the month takes the preposition in.
The definite article the comes before the day number but never before the month in a date.
Ordinal endings in English are two letters: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 11th, 21st, 29th and 31st.
A long name of one day is singular, so a sentence like Democracy and National Unity Day is celebrated takes a singular verb.
The typical activities are a ceremony with the flag and the anthem, a parade, school performances, a concert, fireworks and a family meal.
Learn each national day in a group of four: country, name of the day, date and one typical activity.

A national day is celebrated: Republic Day is celebrated on the 29th of October.
Date pattern: on + the + ordinal + of + month: on the 4th of July
Month pattern: in + month: in October, in July
Ordinal endings: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 11th, 21st, 29th, 31st
Frequency with a date: Every year on the 2nd of June the squares fill with people.
celebrate + a day: We celebrate the new year with our relatives.
commemorate + an event: They commemorate the soldiers with a minute of silence.
Passive for a day: The day is celebrated in every town of the country.

Putting a preposition before the month: Write on the 29th of October, because the of is a link and a preposition such as in never goes before the month in a date.
Using a plural verb with the name of one day: A single day takes a singular verb, so write Democracy and National Unity Day is celebrated, not are celebrated.
Forgetting the ordinal ending: Write the fourth of July and the twenty-ninth of October, because English ordinals always end with two letters.
Leaving out the article before the day number: A specific day takes the definite article, so write on the 15th of July and not on 15th of July.
Confusing celebrate with commemorate: Celebrating is active and happy with parades and food, while commemorating is a quiet and serious act of remembering an event.
Using the present simple for a single celebration that is over: If the text is about one day in the past, the verbs must be in the past simple instead of the present.

Write every date in your notebook in the same four steps: ordinal day, of, month, year. This order never changes in English.
Say the ordinal numbers from the first to the thirty-first out loud once a week, and dates stop being difficult.
When a text gives a date, look for the word every year, because it shows that the sentence is a repeated action.
Use a singular verb with the name of a single day, even when the name of the day has six words.
In a question about a celebration, look for the time words first, such as in the evening, and then find the activity near them.
To describe what people do on a day, use the present simple with a plural subject, for example families visit their relatives.