hey friends what time is it get ready because in this video I'm going to show
you everything you need to learn about the time in English so stay tuned I'm teacher
Prix and I want to help you talk to anyone anywhere anytime in English this
is lesson than 29 of the beginner's guide there will be 30 lessons in total and
next year I will be making videos for the second part of the beginner's guide
with more lessons more exercises and more tips to help you become a more
confident speaker first one important thing you need to know is in American
English they use the 12-hour clock for me to know if 10 is in the morning or at
night I will have a.m. or p.m. and that will help me know if it's before noon or
afternoon right now it's 10:00 a.m it is ten in the
morning okay so this is the first thing you need to learn about the time in
English another thing you need to know exact hours so right now it's 10 00 exact
so it's 10 o clock 11 o clock 12 o clock
Priscila do I need to use o clock every time I'm talking to someone and it's o
clock do I need to use it not necessarily okay but keep in mind
that if you want to emphasize that it's o'clock not one minute more now one minute
less then use o clock okay now that you know o clock and a a.m. and p.m.
let's focus on telling the time okay I will divide the explanations in two
parts the first half and the second half okay why because it's easier for you to
understand the time that way okay now if you don't remember numbers in English
it'll be difficult for you to say the time so study the basic numbers from 1
to 100 this is a basic need for any English speakers knowing
numbers from 1 to 100 okay so let's focus on the first half what is the
first half of the time from one minute to 30 minutes so I will show you how to
say the time from one minute to 30 minutes and there is a very basic way to
say the time in English you say the hour and then you say the minutes so for
example this time you see on the screen it's two the hour two, ten the minute and
you can do this with any time one the hour 20, one five , four thirty-two, five fifteen so this is the most
basic way to say the time in English now there is another way to say the time
which can be a little bit confusing for students in this different possibility
you are going to say minute after you need the word after
hour so let's imagine this time here on the screen
it's ten after one the hour so here we invert first we say the minute then we
use the word after and then you say the hour
okay can we do this with any any minute as I said the first half from 1 to 30
okay now there are some things you need to
know look at this time 3:15 the basic way hour plus minute fifteen now there is a
different way to do it you don't need to say fifteen you can say a quarter okay in the
different possibility where I use after you can say it's a quarter after one or
after three I don't remember now which time I put on
the screen, teacher can I say it's fifteen after three you can but it's not common
native speakers don't usually say it's fifteen after three they use it's a quarter
after 3:00 then it's fine 15 after three no okay you should say three fifteen no
problems but if you want to use the word a quarter then you say a quarter after
three this time see 30 (thirty) there are two possibilities for
you to say this time in English you can use the basic way three thirty one
thirty four thirty or you are going to use half past and in
the hour so half past one half past two half past three half past four half past
five half past six and so on but teacher can't I
use after in this case half after three no no you should not say you can't
okay use half past and the hour and that is
the first half of your time all right so you learned two possibilities the basic
one where you learn the hour plus the minute two ten, two five
you learned that there are different ways to say 15 and 30 okay now let's
move on to the second part after the of the clock the second half and here we
have the basic possibility again you can say 3:31 (three thirty-one) the hour
plus the minute you can say 3:35 (three thirty-five) 4:42 4:51 4:45 no problems okay but there is a
different possibility and in this case it's not after it's TO but here it is a
little bit different you will count how many minutes TO the next hour okay so
let's imagine 3:40 (three forty) TO four o'clock you will have 20 minutes
so you can say it's 20 to 4:00 okay 20 to 4 is the equivalent of 3:40 okay so
it's always the minute TO the next hour you need the preposition TO so let's
imagine it's 3:35 you can say three 35 (thirty-five) but you can also say 25 (twenty-five) TO
four okay and please keep in mind you don't need to say the words minutes and
hours don't okay oh it's 25 minutes to four hours no you
don't say that in English okay you say the number it's 25 to four you can say
o'clock if you want it's not entirely necessary but if you want to you can you
can say p.m. or a.m. if it's relevant to the conversation one thing that I like
to tell my students is if I can understand that it's afternoon that it's
morning that it's evening you don't need to say p.m. imagine you are on the
street and someone stops you and asks what time is it you can say oh it's four (4)
twenty-five (25) the person knows it's p.m. okay the person is outside so you don't need to
say p.m. but if you are talking about an appointment on the phone you are telling
about something you have to do in the future, oh I have a doctor's appointment
tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. that would be okay all right
so let's imagine it's 3:45 you can say the basic way 3:45 but you can also say
a quarter to 4:00 okay so this a quarter represents 15 oh and now that you know
the hours and minutes there's one thing you need to know about the 12 (twelve)
okay there they're two ways to say you can say the number 12 all right it's twelve
p.m. or a.m. For a.m. you can say midnight it's midnight okay so we have
the word midnight and we have the word midday (12 p.m) okay you can also say noon (12 p.m) all
right or you can say the number 12 so I have an appointment at 12:45 p.m. these
are the basic rules for you to talk about the time okay watch this video
again repeat it but hey there's more questions to ask the time you can say
what time is it alright and usually if someone asks you this question
start with "it's" it's four o'clock it's 2 p.m. ok teacher always do I always need
to start this way not really but I like to teach what is right and then you can
balance and think about when you use and when you don't okay the second question
you can you can use to ask the time do you have the time okay it's it's also
common do you have the time excuse me do you have the time or excuse me what's
the time okay so what's the time do you have the time what time is it are very
common questions to ask for information to ask for the time okay
now I'm not talking about an appointment or something I haveto do I'm just asking
for information what time is it okay now there is another question you can
ask that is connected to time remember the previous videos where I showed you
WH questions yeah there's another one well it's the basically the same
what but I can use what with the word time what time do you get up in the
morning what time do you go to work to answer this question you will need the
preposition AT so for example Priscilla what time do you get up I get up at 6:00
a.m. okay I go to work at 7:00 a.m. so this is the preposition you will use
when you are describing appointments and you're telling the time you do things in
English okay now I have an exercise for you and there will be no subtitles in
this part I will tell you 10 different times and you have to post your answers
in the comments okay so I'll say the time here and you will have to write down the
correct answer so here we go -
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