What's the Time ?There are two common ways of telling the time: • Formal but easier way: Say the hours first and then the minutes: Example: 7:45 - seven forty-five • More popular way: Sa
Trang 1What's the Time ?
There are two common ways of telling the time:
• Formal but easier way:
Say the hours first and then the minutes:
Example: 7:45 - seven forty-five
• More popular way:
Say the minutes first and then the hours
In English we use o'clock only to say full hours / round
Example:
6:00 It's six o'clock
7:00 It's seven o'clock
8:00 It's eight o'clock
8:01 It's one past eight (In this case we no longer say o’clock)
We use "PAST" to say the minutes until the limit of half an hour Examples:
6:10 pm It's ten past six
12:15 pm It's quarter past twelve
4:25 pm It's twenty-five past four
2:28 pm It's twenty-eight past two
10:30 am It's half past ten
Trang 2We use “TO” to tell the time from 31 minutes to be completed before a full hour
Example:
2:35 It’s twenty-five to three
6:40 I’ts twenty to seven
9:45 It's quarter to ten
7:55 It's five to eight
• American English
Beside past, Americans often use after.
Example: 06:10 – It’s ten past six./It’s ten after six
But in time expressions with “half past” it is not usual to
replace “past” by “after”.
Beside “TO” Americans often use “before”, of or “till”.
Example: 05:50 – It’s ten to six/ It’s ten before/ It’s ten of six/ It’s ten till six
Prepositions of time
We use:
• at for a PRECISE TIME
• on for DAYS and DATES
precise time Days and dates
at the moment on New Year's Eve
Look at these examples:
• I have a
meeting at 9am.
closes at midnight.
• Jane went
home at lunchtime.
work on Mondays?
• Her birthday is on 20
November
• Where will you
be on New Year's Day?