welcome to today's lesson it's all about
telling time two o'clock half-past four
6:30 quarter to nine 2100 noon I'm
arnelle from Arnold everyday English and
today you will become super confident in
telling time in English here I have a
clock remember this is a clock and this
is a watch remember there's a difference
what time is it it's one o'clock what
time is it it's two o'clock what time is
it it's three o'clock what time is it
it's four o'clock you get the idea in
English would we speak about the time we
always say it is contracted it's it's
five o'clock it's six o'clock it's seven
o'clock it's twelve o'clock if you need
to be very specific we can say AM and PM
but normally when you're speaking it's
obvious okay Arnel I need you here
tomorrow at 6:00 6:00 perfect
see you tomorrow 6:00 a.m. a.m. 12
o'clock
it's time for lunch maybe not in your
country but in the USA and in the UK
twelve o'clock is
lunch time we can also say noon
12 o'clock in the afternoon is hmm I'll
see you tomorrow at noon what time is it
twelve o'clock it's midnight I went to
bed at midnight let's get more specific
we have a very simple way there's also a
more confusing way but actually this is
very easy let's go through both step by
step I have my clock I'm going to use a
digital clock here now it's 105 we
pronounce the zero oh now it's 110 now
it's 115 it's 120 it's 145 you can
always read the time from left to right
with every time it's 8:20
it's 7:30 it's 4:20 - it's 10:10 it's
355 but of course there's another way
let's take a look I have my clock this
part is past this part is too
now let's have the hour hand at one it's
five past 110 past one it's quarter past
one 15 is always quarter past
it's 20 past 1 is 25 past 1 it's half
past 130 is always half past let's
continue
it's 25 - - its 22 - it's quarter to
2:45 is always quarter - it's 10:00 to
2:00 it's 5 to 2 now it's to always
remember quarter past half past quarter
- now it's 228 is it really necessary to
be so specific usually no it's around
2:30 it's around half past two
whenever we're telling time you could
always use around to give a general
period I'll see you tomorrow around 9:00
this could mean 10 to 9:00
this could mean 10 past 9:00
around 9:00 at of course when we tell
the time we say it is now it is - now it
is 4 but we use at when we want to say
when an activity starts or ends my
English lesson starts at 9:00 in the
morning it finishes at 11:00 in the
morning
many of our phones computers schedules
etc use the 24-hour clock but in English
for example we would only say 3 o'clock
we wouldn't say 15 o'clock 16 o'clock
three o'clock four o'clock that's normal
really only in a military-type situation
would you read out the numbers 2100 Oh
100 what time is it
do you have the time these are two
different ways to ask for the time we do
not say how late is it are now how late
is it
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