1. Days, Months, and Dates

2. Spanish Calendar
The Spanish calendar starts on Monday (lunes) and ends on Sunday (domingo)

3. Capitalization
You do not capitalize the days of the week or months of the year in Spanish.
Example: Hoy es lunes. (Today is Monday.)

4. Days of the Week lunes (Monday) martes (Tuesday) miércoles (Wednesday)
jueves (Thursday)
viernes (Friday)
sábado (Saturday)
domingo (Sunday)

5. Months of the Year enero - January julio - July
febrero - February agosto - August
marzo - March septiembre - September
abril - April octubre - October
mayo - May noviembre - November
junio - June diciembre - December

6. Finding out the date la fecha - means “date” hoy - means “today”
¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy? - What is the date today? or
¿Qué día es hoy?

7. Writing the date In Spanish, the date always goes before the month.
Example 1: To write August 16, 2012, you would write 16/8/2012 instead of 8/16/2012
Example 2: October 8, is written as 8/10/2012

8. Date in front
You also put the date in front of the month when saying the date.
The date will follow this pattern:
el (number) de (month)
the (number) of (month)

9. Examples English Spanish (August 16) el 16 de agosto
(October 8) el 8 de octubre
(July 4) el 4 de julio
(December 25) el 25 de diciembre

10. Exceptions
For the first day of the month, you wouldn’t say “el uno de enero.”
You would say “el primero de...” (The first of...)
Example 1: el primero de enero (January first. The first of January.)
Example 2: el primero de septiembre (Sept.1. The first of September)

11. Birthday Birthday - cumpleaños Happy Birthday - Feliz cumpleaños
Mi cumpleaños es el 8 de octubre. (My birthday is the 8th of October.)

12. Checking for Understanding

13. What is the first day of the week on the Spanish calendar?
lunes (Monday)

14. Do you capitalize days of the week or months of the year?
No!

15. How is a spanish date written and spoken differently from english?
The date goes before the month

16. How do you say Happy Birthday?
Feliz cumpleaños

17. Say the following date in Spanish: June 22
el 22 de junio

18. Say the following date in Spanish: December 25
el 25 de diciembre

19. Say the following date in Spanish: January 15
el 15 de enero

20. Say the following date in Spanish: July 1
el primero de julio

21. Speaking & Listening Practice Activity

22. Activity Time! Directions:
Students, take out a sheet of paper and write your name at the top (to be turned in).
Teacher, you will need a sheet of paper too, to make the Answer Key.

23. Activity Time!
On the first line of your paper, write “Mi cumpleaños es _____.” (My birthday is ______.)
Fill in the blank with your birthday in Spanish, using the Spanish format for dates that you learned today.

24. Activity Time!
Next, we will go around the room and each student will say “Mi cumpleaños es (the date in Spanish).”
As each student says their birthday sentence, the other students must listen to the date in Spanish and write down that student’s birthday in English.
Teacher, be sure to write down the students’ birthdays to make your Answer Key.

25. Activity Time! Now, let’s get started!
The first student should stand up now.
Everyone, write down #1 and that student’s name.
Listen closely to his/her Spanish sentence, and write down the date of his/her birthday in English.
Repeat the pattern, until each student has shared his/her birthday and students have written down all the birthdays in the class.

26. el fin