National Days and Celebrations nedir?

Bu konuda neler öğreneceksin?

• 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.

Anahtar fikirler

• 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.

Konunun özeti

A date needs the ordinal form of the day, the preposition on before the day and the preposition in before the month. To celebrate is active and happy; to commemorate is a serious act of remembering. Typical activities are a parade, a concert, fireworks and a family meal.

Sık yapılan hatalar

• 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.

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