Hello and welcome, everyone.
This is Chris, from England.
And this is a new addition to my British English accent training lessons series
free on Youtube.
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Today's lesson, then, is about helping you with the
pronunciation of the days of the week,
the months of the year,
and then I want to go through some of the prepositions we use
to describe the activities in terms of days and months.
So, three points to this lesson that I hope will help you.
Firstly, I'm going through the days and the months
and I'm going to say each one twice to help you practise
the British accent and pronunciation.
Starting with the days of the week:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
We call Saturday and Sunday together the weekend.
Months
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Those two parts were to help you with the pronunciation and British accent of
days of the week and months of the year.
This third bit, I wanted to talk about how to use prepositions
to describe activities.
In particular, I've got some examples for you as well.
I hope this will be useful.
I know it's easy to get confused about which prepositions to use,
so in this section I really hope to help you understand
which prepositions to use to describe different situations.
Use "by" to describe a day or month that something has to be done by, is normally done by,
or a point by which something was done:
"You must do your homework by Friday."
"You will know your exam results by August."
"I had forgotten about my New Year's resolutions by February."
Use "on" to specify which day of the week an activity takes place on:
"He will start his new job on Monday."
"I go shopping on Saturdays."
"They went to the beach on Sunday."
Use "in" to specify which month an activity takes place in:
"The Christmas holidays are held in December."
"We celebrate Easter in April."
("During" can also be used on occasion; e.g. "It was done during the month of.."
Use "at" to describe activities at the weekend:
"We went to the cinema at the weekend."
"I normally relax at the weekend."
This / Next / Last Day or Month
Use "this" or "next" to indicate the nearest future named day or month:
"Let's watch the football this / next Monday."
"I'm going to London this Wednesday."
"Next" can also specify the day or month after the nearest future one:
"I'll graduate next July." (Could be said in May the year before.)
Use "last" to specify the most recent named day or month in the past:
"They broke up last Friday."
"We moved into this house last April."
Please remember some of these uses are interchangeable.
Context is always crucial.
There we have it then:
a video lesson today with those three parts:
the days of the week, the months of the year,
and then prepositions to use to describe activities.
I hope this was helpful for you.
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They are short, two or three minutes normally, on topics like today --
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