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Module # _3_
I. General Information
Subject: English III CODE: INE-0206
Credit Units: 3 Module Duration: 10 days
Introduction
In this module you will learn about writing dates, ordinal numbers, and the past
form of irregular verbs.

I. Specific Objectives:
To write the past form of irregular verbs and use them on sentences.
To write dates using ordinal numbers.
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II. Contents
Vocabulary

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Grammar

Spelling of Ordinal Numbers

Just add th to the cardinal number:

four - fourth
eleven - eleventh

Exceptions:

one - first
two - second
three - third
five - fifth
eight - eighth
nine - ninth
twelve - twelfth

In compound ordinal numbers, note that only the last figure is written as an ordinal
number:

421st = four hundred and twenty-first

5,111th = five thousand, one hundred and eleventh

Figures

When expressed as figures, the last two letters of the written word are added to
the ordinal number:

first = 1st
second = 2nd
third = 3rd
fourth = 4th
twenty-sixth = 26th
hundred and first = 101st

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Examples:
When is Father’s Day celebrated in Honduras?
It’s celebrated on March 19th.
When was Karla’s birthday?
It was on May 3rd.

Past tense

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Regular Verbs
A regular verb is a verb that follows this rule:

Past form of the verb = Present form of the verb + ed / d

For example, work is a regular verb because:

Past form of work = work + ed = worked

Dance is a regular verb too. That is because:

Past form of dance = dance + d = danced

We call the present form a base form, or V1 (Verb 1).

We call the past form V2 (Verb 2).

There is another form called V3 (Verb 3). That is the form that we use in the Perfect
Tenses.

These are examples of Regular Verbs:

V1 V2 V3

help helped helped

open opened opened

stop stopped stopped

change changed changed

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Irregular Verbs
An irregular verb is a verb that does not follow that rule.

For example, drink is an irregular verb because the past form of drink is drank, and
not "drinked".

Go is an irregular verb too. That is because the past form of go is went, and not
"goed".

These are examples of Irregular Verbs:

V1 V2 V3

take took taken

buy bought bought

eat ate eaten

give gave given

leave left left

am was been

The English language has a great number of irregular verbs!

I. BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Textbook: English ID 1B, Editorial Richmond, 2da Edición.

2. Workbook: English ID 1B, Editorial Macmillan, 2da Edición.

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3. Diccionario de Ingles / Español o www.dictionary.com

4. Laboratorio de Idiomas - Open Mind www.macmillanmind.com
5. English Central Website- www.englishcentral.com