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We don't use pre positions before common expressions with this, next, last and every.

What are you doing this afternoon ? Goodbye. See you next week.
Theo was here last Tuesday. We go on holiday to the same place every year.

Today is Wednesday March 16th 2011. Rewrite the sentences using this, next, last and every.

► I met her in 2010. .. ...................................................................................................

1 I'll see you on March 23rd................................................................................................................................
2 It rained non-stop from March 7th to March 13th.........................................................................................
3 Business was bad in February 2011................................................................................................................
4 Shall we go out on March 16th in the evening? .........................................................................................
5 We're going to America in April 2011.............................................................................................................
6 Ann had a car crash on March 9th...................................................................................................................

7 I'm going to change my job in 2012...............................................................................................................
8 My holiday is in August 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015 etc............................................................................
9 I've spent too much money already in March................................................................................................
10 The new school will be open in March 2012..................................................................................................

To say how long it takes to finish something, we use in.
They b u ilt our house in three m onths. Your soup w ill be ready in ten m inutes.

^ My Australian friend Sheila is saving money because she wants to buy a sports car.
She is saving $1 a day, starting tomorrow.

► When will she have $2 in her savings account? ......................

1 When will she have $5? .................................................

2 When will she have $7? In a .................................................
3 When will she have $14? .................................................
4 When will she have $30? .................................................
5 When will she have $365? .................................................
6 The car costs $36,500. When will she have it? .................................................

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: dates

WE WRITE WE SAY
1999 nineteen ninety-nine
17(th) March 2011 the seventeenth of March, two thousand and eleven
OR March 17(th) 2011 March the seventeenth, two thousand and eleven
OR 17.3.(20)11
OR 17/3/(20)11
American English: 3.17.2011 March (the) seventeenth, two thousand (and) eleven

Q Say these dates:
1 21.3.1999 2 14 February 1960 3 July 28 1846 4 6/5/03 5 M ay 9 1984 6 17 December 2012

In some answers, both contracted forms (for example I'm, don't) and full PREPOSITIONS 275
forms (for example lam, do not) are possible. Normally both are correct.