hi i'm rebecca from engvid calm in this
lesson we're going to learn how to tell
time in English okay so for example if
someone tells you I'll meet you at ten
to ten what does that mean what is ten
to ten we're gonna find out okay let's
go alright so here's the clock that I've
drawn
excuse my drawing but what time does it
say okay
so let's examine the clock so this is
called the hour hand it shows the hour
and this is called the minute hand okay
the shorter hand is the hour hand and
the longer hand is the minute hand all
right and right now the hour hand is
pointed to two and this is pointed to
twelve so that means it is two o'clock
alright so as we go around it would be
one o'clock two o'clock three o'clock
four o'clock five o'clock six o'clock
seven o'clock eight o'clock nine o'clock
ten o'clock eleven o'clock and twelve
o'clock now if you just say twelve
o'clock if you don't know what it's like
outside is it dark is it twelve o'clock
at night is it twelve o'clock in the
afternoon so sometimes when it's twelve
we just say twelve noon or midnight okay
if it's night we say midnight but we'll
get to that now there are many things
you need to know in order to be able to
say the time or express time correctly
alright so let's go through what they
are so as I said first of all if it's a
complete power on the hour then just say
the hour the number plus o clock alright
that's the expression two o'clock three
o'clock right now then let's start going
by 5-minute intervals around the clock
and see what happens so here we would
say 2:05 say it after me
two whole five good the next
- ten okay that would be here - ten then
here - 15 to 20 25 to 30 - 35 to 40 - 45
to 50 - 55
okay so we're going by 5-minute
intervals right now and it could be
something in between it could be to 12
or it could be to 23 but usually people
round off to those these numbers here
okay so one way that you can tell the
time and I think it's the easiest as
long as you know these basic numbers up
to 59 but certainly the numbers by 5 is
just to say that 205 what's the time
it's 2:15 it's 250 it's 240 okay
245 and so on that's the easy way and
you can say that but you might hear
people using another expression or a few
other expressions as well so let me
explain those to you so as I said this
you can call to 15 or quarter past - so
why are we saying that because in this
method what we're doing is we're
dividing the clock into quarters okay
like this and like this
so when it's 2:15 it's a quarter past
two or a quarter after - after two
o'clock but we don't have to say after
two o'clock we can just say at that
point it's a quarter past two it's a
quarter after - okay then when it comes
to 2:30 we could say it's 2:30 or we
could say it's half right half from the
twelve to the sixth it's half past two
that's how we express that
and at 2:45 we can also say it's a
quarter to three quarter to now anything
after the six you see this other arrow
here from here to the twelve we have to
say something to quarter to twelve
quarter to three okay we'll be quarter
to three if it was 2:45 alright or 25
minutes to three you could say that but
those you're probably just hear people
saying to 35 to 40 and so on but on
these quarter and half people do use
these other expressions
okay so again quarter past two half past
two quarter to three okay now remember
when I said 10 to 10 so that was 10
minutes to 10 10 minutes to 10 o'clock
all right 10 minutes before 10 o'clock
so when people say 10 to 10 10 minutes
to 10 it's not used very often but
sometimes people just use it in short
okay all right
let's look at a couple of other things
you might see when when talking about
the time so when we're going from 12:00
midnight to about 11:59 in the afternoon
that period of time is referred to as
a.m. ante meridiem but don't worry about
what it stands for people just say a.m.
and p.m. ante meridiem and post meridiem
don't worry about those just say a.m. if
it's from midnight to the afternoon and
after 12:00 o'clock in the afternoon
12:00 noon - 11:59 at night we called
that time p.m. so if someone says I'll
meet you at 4:00 p.m. when is that
that's over here 4 o'clock in the
afternoon
if someone says I'll meet you at 10 a.m.
that means over here right 10 o'clock in
the morning all right I know it's a lot
to take in if you're a little bit unsure
you can study this for a while and
and let's do a little bit of a review
okay so are you ready to tell the time
here we go the first one so what's the
easy way we could say this 650 okay
remember to say 5050 short not 15 okay
because that would mean something else
and somebody would get the wrong idea
fifteen and fifty six fifty or ten to
seven good three 45 or quarter to four
five twenty or twenty past five twenty
after five seven fifty again fifty or
how would we say it ten to eight good
915 okay now it's longer nine fifteen or
quarter past nine quarter after nine
over here 8:05 usually we don't say but
you could say five past 8:00 now here
this is 1010 which means ten minutes
past ten o'clock but this one we would
say either 950 or 10 to 10 10 to 10 okay
good this one 5:30 right or what's the
other way to say that half-past five and
140 or twenty minutes to two o'clock
alright so I know there are some
variations but learn to say the one
which is easier for you but learn to
also understand all of the other options
okay
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thanks very much for watching bye for
now