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Grade 10 · lesson 4 of 4

Read and Write Calendar Labels

Spanish weekday and month names normally use lowercase inside a sentence, unlike standard English calendar capitalization.

About 20 minutes, plus any extended practice

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Supplied materials

  • Paper or a browser scratch area; no audio recording, account or private information is needed.
  • Fictional language record: weekday lunes; month enero. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization? Candidate answers: (A) La actividad es el Lunes en Enero. (B) La actividad es el jueves en enero. (C) La actividad es el lunes en agosto. (D) La actividad es el lunes en enero.
  • Fictional language record: weekday martes; month febrero. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization? Candidate answers: (A) La actividad es el Martes en Febrero. (B) La actividad es el lunes en febrero. (C) La actividad es el martes en enero. (D) La actividad es el martes en febrero.

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Questions request a particular kind of information. Number words, clock expressions and date labels then communicate amounts or times; use the explicitly supplied practice records rather than a real schedule. Spanish weekday and month names normally use lowercase inside a sentence, unlike standard English calendar capitalization. The supplied record determines which labels belong together; this is a language task, not calendar-date validation.

Keep the exact weekday and month provided in the fictional practice record. Place them in the supplied frame “La actividad es el [weekday] en [month]” with lowercase initials because neither word begins the sentence. Retain accents in miércoles and sábado.

Capitalization can change at a sentence beginning or in an official name. These examples put the calendar labels inside an ordinary sentence. No year is supplied and no actual Gregorian weekday-date pairing is being claimed.

  1. Copy the supplied example and underline its speaker, noun, time cue or evidence words.
  2. Apply the shown language rule; keep any required ending, accent or paired punctuation.
  3. Solve the changed independent check, then explain why one offered alternative fails.
  4. Complete all three new practice cases and use the model to correct the precise word or meaning.
Worked example

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Supplied case: Fictional language record: weekday lunes; month enero. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization? Candidate answers: (A) La actividad es el Lunes en Enero. (B) La actividad es el jueves en enero. (C) La actividad es el lunes en agosto. (D) La actividad es el lunes en enero. Solution: The record supplies lunes and enero. Both occur inside the sentence and therefore stay lowercase: La actividad es el lunes en enero. Preserve the original labels rather than substitute a more familiar day or month. Final result: La actividad es el lunes en enero. Capitalization can change at a sentence beginning or in an official name. These examples put the calendar labels inside an ordinary sentence. No year is supplied and no actual Gregorian weekday-date pairing is being claimed.

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  • Keep the exact weekday and month provided in the fictional practice record.
  • Capitalization can change at a sentence beginning or in an official name.
Fictional language record: weekday martes; month febrero. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization?

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La actividad es el martes en febrero.

The record supplies martes and febrero. Both occur inside the sentence and therefore stay lowercase: La actividad es el martes en febrero. Preserve the original labels rather than substitute a more familiar day or month.

Take it further

Fictional language record: weekday miércoles; month agosto. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization? Candidate answers: (A) La actividad es el Miércoles en Agosto. (B) La actividad es el lunes en agosto. (C) La actividad es el miércoles en agosto. (D) La actividad es el miércoles en enero. Expected result: La actividad es el miércoles en agosto. The record supplies miércoles and agosto. Both occur inside the sentence and therefore stay lowercase: La actividad es el miércoles en agosto. Preserve the original labels rather than substitute a more familiar day or month.

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More practice: try new cases
1. Fictional language record: weekday miércoles; month marzo. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization?
Need a hint?
  • Keep the exact weekday and month provided in the fictional practice record.
  • Capitalization can change at a sentence beginning or in an official name.
2. Fictional language record: weekday jueves; month abril. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization?
Need a hint?
  • Keep the exact weekday and month provided in the fictional practice record.
  • Capitalization can change at a sentence beginning or in an official name.
3. Fictional language record: weekday viernes; month mayo. Which offered sentence preserves both labels with ordinary in-sentence capitalization?
Need a hint?
  • Keep the exact weekday and month provided in the fictional practice record.
  • Capitalization can change at a sentence beginning or in an official name.

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