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Wishing a happy birthday

Content:
> 1) Birthday wishes
> 2) Other useful sentences
> 3) Idiom
> 4) Asking for the age
> 5) Asking for the date
> 6) Exercise

1) The famous sentence

You can use: 'Happy birthday (to you)!'

Happy birthday to you, Sarah!
Happy birthday to you, Sarah and Mike!

or

Happy birthday, Sarah!
Happy birthday, Sarah and Mike!

American English: you can also use 'happy anniversary'.

2) Useful sentences.

3) Idiom

4) Asking for someone's age:

Use: 'how old are you?'

Replies:
- the shortest reply:
I am 17 = I'm 17


- the longest reply:
I am 17 years old = I'm 17 years old

You should know cardinal numbers :)

1 = one
2 = two
3 = three
4 = four
5 = five
6 = six
7 = seven
8 = eight
9 = nine
10 = ten
11 = eleven
12 = twelve
13 = thirteen
14 = fourteen
15 = fifteen
16 = sixteen
17 = seventeen
18 = eighteen
19 = nineteen
20 = twenty
30 = thirty
40 = forty
50 = fifty
60 = sixty
70 = seventy
80 = eighty
90 = ninety
100 = a / one hundred

Examples:
27 = 20 + 7 =  'twenty-seven'
43 =  'forty-three'
62 = 'sixty-two'

102 = one hundred and two
123 = one hundred AND twenty-three

5) Asking for the date


When is David's birthday?
When is your birthday?

When were you born?

How to reply:
It is on...

It is on January, the third

I was born on January, the third.

6) Exercise:

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you

How

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old.

years

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3.

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born?

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eighty-eight.

was

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birthday

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We

wish

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When

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birthday?