What time is it?
Hello
Today we're looking at 'How to tell the time'
First of all, how do we ask what the time is?
It's very simple.
So if someone's asked you "What time is it?"
What are you going to say in response?
If the clock is on the hour then you can very simply say
However, if you want to specify between
morning or afternoon
then you can say it's three pm
PM is for any time between noon and midnight
AM is for anytime between midnight and noon.
If the time shows anything between the hour
and half past the hour
we use the word past
so we have five past
ten past
quarter past
twenty past
twenty five past
and half past
So did you notice, actually
that the only thing that was slightly odd there
was when we got to the quarter
Fifteen minutes past
Sometimes we will say fifteen minutes past
but it's easy enough to say quarter past
It's a quarter of the entire circle
It's quarter past
Now anything between the half past position
and back to the hour
we are going to look at to
So the word we use is 'to'
So we move around
Twenty five to
Twenty to
Quarter to
Now we very rarely say "fifteen minutes to".
Very rarely!
Ten to
Five to
Four o'clock
Now there are many variations
in how you can tell the time
Some people like to use the twenty four hour clock
So instead of "Six thirty pm" you might get
Instead of "Five twenty five am" you might get
Just remember in the beginning half of the hour
we say past
in the last half of the hour we say to
Oh look at the time!
I'm afraid it's time for me to go
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