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Record and listen: Ray's race

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Record these sentences. Ray's in a race today. Ray wakes up late, but it's okay. The race doesn't start till eight. Now listen to your voice.

Birthdays

Listen to the song Happy Birthday to You.

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In this Real-English video, When's your birthday?,
listen to the way people use ordinal numbers to
answer the question.

Questions on birthdays

• How do people in your country celebrate birthdays?
  
  
• When's your birthday? How do you celebrate it?

Birthday talk / Using cardinal and ordinal numbers 

Richard answer the first question with an ordinal number.
He answers the second question with a cardinal number.

Thomas: How old are you?
Richard: I'm 19.
Thomas: When's your birthday?
Richard: March 19th.

Take turns asking and answering these questions.

How old are you? 

When's your birthday?

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Cardinal and ordinal numbers

 
    Cardinal numbers
    1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
    6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10

   Ordinal numbers
    1st - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th
    6th - 7th - 8th - 9th - 10th
         

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In this Real-English video by Mike Marzio, the girl counts
in two ways. Listen for the ordinal and cardinal numbers.