8 Talking About the Date and Time
Chapter Objectives
In this chapter you will learn how to:
- Talk about days & months
- Tell time and talk about the time of events
Los días de la semana y los meses del año
View the following presentation about the days of the week and the months of the year. Listen to the pronunciation, memorize the vocabulary, and go through the practice exercises.
Now view the presentation below to learn how to express the day’s date. Be sure to complete the practice exercise on the second slide.
Tarea Escrita 8.1
For this activity, use a 2025 calendar such as this one from timeanddate.com For each given date, write the complete date, including the day of the week, day of the month, and the year (2025). Remember the numerical format is in the Spanish format. Follow the example:
MODELO: 5/1/2025 → domingo, cinco de enero de 2025
- 9/11/2025
- 20/2/2025
- 6/9/2025
- 11/5/2025
- 25/5/2025
Telling Time
To express what time it is, we use the verb ser in the third-person plural (son) for most hours and in the third-person singular (es) from 1:00 to 1:59 (the hour 1 is singular and the rest are plural). View the following presentation and complete the exercises on the second slide.
Talking about the time of events or appointments
View the following presentation to learn how to talk about the time of events, such as appointments. Complete the exercises on the second slide.
Tarea Oral 8.2
Record an audio of you reading the complete sentences of the exercises from the slides of the last two presentations about telling time. Submit to your instructor as evidence that you completed these activities.